Originally Posted By: The Italian Stallionette
88K is 400 per cent poverty level?????? eek I'm not a family of four, but I would be well below the poverty level if that's the case. I don't get that figure.
TIS


Hard to believe but accurate.
http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/09poverty.shtml

I would guess that these levels are paycheck income alone and do not include retirement benefits, investment income, pensions, annuities, IRA withdrawals, Social Security or any number of other items which retired individuals might have but I am hardly an expert on the issue..

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