The Council of Ministers says it can't define what poverty is.
A report on poverty affecting the Island is due to be laid before Tynwald during its April sitting.
In it, it says a number of different definitions are being considered but none have yet been adopted.
One suggestion is households earning under 60% of the Island's median income - that would mean in 2018, around 23 per cent of the Island was living in poverty.
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