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1 Gerald Prante, What Is 300 Percent of the Poverty Level 1 (2007)

handle is hein.taxfoundation/ffjbxz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ..FOUNDATION July 11, 2007 What Is 300 Percent of the Poverty Level? SCHIP Program May Expand to Middle-Income Households Fiscal Fact No. 91 by Gerald Prante As Congress debates renewal of funding for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), many senators and representatives favor expanding the SCHIP program up the income scale, far above the original targets: low-income households with children who don't quite qualify for Medicaid. Some states are already awarding SCHIP benefits to childless adults and to families with incomes well above the national median. Gov. Spitzer in New York has even proposed that the program there purchase health insurance for families that earn 400 percent of the poverty level, over $82,000 for a family of four. The median household income in America was approximately $46,000 in 2005. A more common threshold that many politicians are pushing is 300 percent of the poverty threshold, as defined by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). (See Table 1.) Even this level will essentially convert a program for low-income people into a program for middle-income people, possibly undermining public support for the program. Table 1 For Many Households, 300 Percent of Poverty Level Is Above America's Median Income Number of Individuals 300 Percent of Poverty in Household Threshold 1 $30,630 2 $41,070Q 3 $51,5101 4 $61,950 5 $72,390 6 $82,830 7 $93,270 8 $103,7101 'Source: Department of Health and Human Services, Poverty Guidelines for 2007, http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/07poverty.shtml

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