The government must take into account inflation and regional wages along with nutritional requirements when computing for the “food poor” threshold, which the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) ...

According to the Philippine Statistic Authority (PSA), the food threshold for a family of five last year was P9,581, up by 14.7 percent from the P8,353 per month in 2021.

In a separate PSA report, the average income of a family last year was estimated at P353,000,up by 15 percent from the P307,000 seen in 2021.