For those working with HUD's income eligibility guidelines, you've probably noticed by now that MFI and AMI are not the same - despite HUD's and HUDUSER's explanations to the contrary. If you're using the 60% and 80% figures, for example, please note that these really aren't mathematical percentages at all - they're numbers that originally started out as percentages but have since been adjusted for several external factors and then rounded up or down to the nearest $25. Thus, you can't strictly use them as mathematical percentages. All this, of course, is different than the DHHS percentages of poverty guidelines, which are, in fact, real percentages, and can thus be manipulated in mathematical formulas in spreadsheets, etc.
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