---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 6706"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "6706"
heading: "Income gap multiplier"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/6706"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — General Assistance Administration"
  - "Chapter 67 — Federal Payments"
---

# §6706. Income gap multiplier


For purposes of determining the [income](/usc/31/6720.md?p=a-5) gap of a [unit of general local government](/usc/31/6501.md?p=10) under section 6705(b)(4)(A),[^1] the number which applies is—

- (1) 1.6, with respect to ½ of any amount allocated under [section 6704](/usc/31/6704.md) to the [State](/usc/31/6201.md?p=2) in which the unit is located; and
- (2) 1.2, with respect to the remainder of such amount.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be section “6705(c)(4)(A),”.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 301001(a), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 stat. 1871.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 6706, Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1014, related to reductions in State government allocations, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–272, title XIV, § 14001(a)(1), (e), Apr. 7, 1986, 100 Stat. 327, 329, eff. Oct. 18, 1986.