Poverty Level 2024 By State. The 2024 federal poverty level (fpl) income numbers below are used to calculate eligibility for medicaid and the children's health insurance program (chip). The highest poverty rate in the country is in mississippi, where 18.8% of the population lives in poverty.
Use this fpl (federal poverty level) calculator to get annual and monthly federal poverty income levels and percentages for your household size in missouri. The census supplemental poverty rate, which adjusts for how government programs keep people out of poverty, was at 12.4% in 2022.