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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/14poverty.cfm
Thank you for sharing the federal poverty guidelines. Here is are the facts for DC though:  OP has $120 left over without figuring taxes or utilities or internet. Making her clearly eligible for DCs Nutrition Assistance Program which has a net income threshold of $958. She is also eligible for DC Medicaid which has a $1,915 cutoff. She is also classified as either ELI of VLI (extremely low income and very low income) and eligible for housing assistance.

http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/eligibility
http://dhs.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dhs/service_content/attachments/Children%20and%20Families%20Medicaid%20Countable%20Income%202013.pdf
http://dhcd.dc.gov/page/2012-cdbg-home-nsp-lihtc-and-hptf-program-limits

You might have anticipated all this if you had fully read your own link. It states that many agencies do not use federal poverty data.

"Programs using the guidelines (or percentage multiples of the guidelines — for instance, 125 percent or 185 percent of the guidelines) in determining eligibility include Head Start, the Supplemental Nutition Assistance Program (SNAP), the National School Lunch Program, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.  Note that in general, cash public assistance programs (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and Supplemental Security Income) do NOT use the poverty guidelines in determining eligibility.  The Earned Income Tax Credit program also does NOT use the poverty guidelines to determine eligibility.  For a more detailed list of programs that do and don’t use the guidelines, see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)."[/quote]

You cannot even put 2 and 2 together. 15/hr x 8 hrs x 260 working days/year = 31,200 Annual salary (gross before taxes)
958$ net per month x 12 months =11,496 .

So unless you somehow manage to pay 20,000 in taxes to arrive at 11.5K net, then no, you would not qualify for the programs listed.   Proposed living wage in DC was 11$/hour. So 15$ hr is about 30% above the local living wage.

Maybe the rate you're getting is not enough to have the standard of living you would like to have, but it's not immoral and does not leave you going to bed hungry. Nobody forced anyone into accepting any given rate, you asked for that job and signed a contract, from which by the way you can also freely walk away.[/quote]

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