[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 246 (Friday, December 20, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 67376]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-32300]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Poverty Threshold; Notice

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.

SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hereby gives notice of 
the weighted poverty threshold established for 1995 for one person 
(unrelated individual) as established by the Bureau of the Census. This 
amount is $7,763.

DATES: For VA determinations, the 1995 poverty threshold is effective 
September 26, 1996, the date on which it was established by the Bureau 
of the Census.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Paul Trowbridge, Consultant, Compensation and Pension Service, Veterans 
Benefits Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420, (202) 273-7218.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We published a final rule amending 38 CFR 
4.16(a) in the Federal Register of August 3, 1990, 55 Fed. Reg. 31,579. 
The amendment provided that marginal employment generally shall be 
deemed to exist when a veteran's earned annual income does not exceed 
the amount established by the Bureau of Census as the poverty threshold 
for one person. The provisions of 38 CFR 4.16(a) use the poverty 
threshold as a standard in defining marginal employment when 
considering total disability ratings for compensation based on 
unemployability of an individual. We stated we would publish subsequent 
poverty threshold figures as notices in the Federal Register.
    The Bureau of the Census recently published in the weighted average 
poverty thresholds for 1995. The threshold for one person (unrelated 
individual) is $7,763.

    Dated: December 11, 1996.
Jesse Brown,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. 96-32300 Filed 12-19-96; 8:45 am]
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