NEW PERSONAL INCOME AND OUTLAYS report

PERSONAL INCOME AND OUTLAYS: SEPTEMBER 2009

                                        2009
                                      May             June            July            Aug.            Sept.
                                                     (Percent change from preceding month)
Personal income, current dollars        1.3            -1.1             0.1             0.1             0.0
Disposable personal income:
Current dollars                        1.6            -1.1            -0.1             0.1             0.0
Chained (2005) dollars                 1.5            -1.6            -0.1            -0.2            -0.1
Personal consumption expenditures:
Current dollars                        0.1             0.7             0.2             1.4            -0.5
Chained (2005) dollars                 0.0             0.2             0.2             1.0            -0.6

And the other important part:

Personal outlays and personal saving

Personal outlays -- PCE, personal interest payments, and personal current transfer payments -- decreased
$48.8 billion in September, in contrast to an increase of $138.2 billion in August. PCE decreased $47.2
billion, in contrast to an increase of $139.8 billion.

Personal saving -- DPI less personal outlays -- was $355.6 billion in September, compared with $307.0 billion in
August. Personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income was 3.3 percent in September, compared with
2.8 percent in August. For a comparison of personal saving in BEA’s national income and product accounts with personal
saving in the Federal Reserve Board’s flow of funds accounts and data on changes in net worth, go to
http://www.bea.gov/national/nipaweb/Nipa-Frb.asp.