In June 2019, the median monthly food poverty gap in NCR was P3,000, while the median food
poverty threshold was P9,000.
It would seem that a family of five with earnings of P10,500 a month { a figure above the
poverty threshold) will be able to lead a decent life and meet their basic food and non-food needs.
As the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service noted in 2017, "Medical needs are not included in the SPM
poverty thresholds." The formula subtracts out-of-pocket medical expenses from household income when setting
poverty thresholds, but it doesn't add in the value of benefits such as private health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid or premium subsidies under the Affordable Care Act.
The PSA also reported that the province has increased its per capita
poverty threshold to P12,720.
The report suggests the increase in struggling households may be because households close to the fuel
poverty threshold have seen a lower than average increase in income and a bigger than average increase in housing costs, and therefore, have been pushed into fuel poverty.
Poverty status was categorized as above or below the
poverty threshold, and determined by the family's per capita annual income compared to the federal
poverty threshold for a same size family (U.S.
One major benefit of the supplemental measure is that it adjusts the official
poverty threshold to account for geographic price-level differences.
If we measure the
poverty threshold by the (constant dollar) value of the 10th percentile, the poverty rate remained static from the mid-1970s to mid-2000s.
Seventeen percent of the EU28 population in 2012 were at risk of poverty after social transfers, meaning that their disposable income was below their national at risk of
poverty threshold. The highest rates were observed in Greece and Romania (both 23%), Spain (22%), and the lowest in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands (both 10%).