Rules and Regulations. Notice

Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs
Action: Notice
Citation: FR Doc. 01-29442

Summary

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hereby gives notice of the weighted average poverty threshold established for 2000 for one person (unrelated individual) as established by the Bureau of the Census. The amount is $8,794.

Dates

For VA determinations, the 2000 poverty threshold is effective September 25, 2001, the date on which it was established by the Bureau of the Census.

Supplementary Information

We published a final rule amending 38 CFR 4.16(a) in the Federal Register of August 3, 1990, 55 FR 31579. 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 the 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 the weighted average poverty thresholds for 2000. The threshold for one person (unrelated individual) is $8,794. Dated: November 15, 2001. Anthony J. Principi, Secretary of Veterans Affairs. [FR Doc. 01-29442 Filed 11-26-01; 8:45 am]