Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) 2025 Lower Living Standard Income Level (LLSIL)

Employment and Training Administration (ETA), Labor.

Title I of WIOA requires the U.S. Secretary of Labor (Secretary) to update and publish the LLSIL tables annually, for uses described in the law (including determining eligibility for youth). WIOA defines the term “low-income individual” as ( inter alia) one whose total family annual income does not exceed the higher level of the poverty line or 70 percent of the LLSIL. This issuance provides the Secretary's annual LLSIL for 2025 and references the current 2025 Health and Human Services “Poverty Guidelines.”

This notice is applicable May 13, 2025.