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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 12, 2013

1933 Act File No. 002-89287
1940 Act File No. 811-03967
 
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.  20549
 
FORM N-1A
 
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
[ X ]
 
Pre-Effective Amendment No. __
[     ]
 
Post-Effective Amendment No. 49
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and/or
 
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940
[ X ]
 
Amendment No. 51
[ X ]
(Check appropriate box or boxes.)

FIRST INVESTORS INCOME FUNDS
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
 
55 Broadway
New York, New York 10006
(Address of Principal Executive Office) (Zip Code)
Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code: (212) 858-8000
 
Mary Carty, Esq.
First Investors Income Funds
55 Broadway
New York, New York 10006
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
 
Copy to:
Kathy K. Ingber, Esq.
K&L Gates LLP
1601 K Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20006-1601
 
It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box)
 
[ X ]
immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
 
[     ]
on (date) pursuant to paragraph (b)
 
[     ]
60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
 
[     ]
on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
 
[     ]
75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
 
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on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485.

If appropriate, check the following box:
 
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This post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment.
 
 
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This amendment is being filed solely to submit exhibits containing risk/return summary information in interactive data format that is identical to the Registrant’s risk/return information contained in its prospectus that was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Post-Effective Amendment No. 48 to the Registrant’s registration statement on January 28, 2013.
 
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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities  Act of 1933, as amended (“1933 Act”), and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the Registrant represents that this Amendment meets all the requirements for effectiveness pursuant to Rule 485(b) under the 1933 Act and has duly caused  this Post-Effective Amendment No. 49 to the Registration Statement on Form N-1A to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Edison, and the State of New Jersey, on the 12th day of February 2013.

 
FIRST INVESTORS INCOME FUNDS
     
 
By:
/s/ Derek Burke
 
   
Derek Burke
   
President
     
Pursuant to the requirements of the 1933 Act, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 49 to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

/s/ Derek Burke
 
President
February 12, 2013
Derek Burke
     
       
/s/ Joseph I. Benedek
 
Treasurer
February 12, 2013
Joseph I. Benedek
     
       
/s/ Susan E. Artmann
 
Trustee
February 12, 2013
Susan E. Artmann*
     
       
/s/ Mary J. Barneby
 
Trustee
February 12, 2013
Mary J. Barneby*
     
       
/s/ Charles R. Barton, III
 
Trustee
February 12, 2013
Charles R. Barton, III*
     
       
/s/ Stefan L. Geiringer
 
Trustee
February 12, 2013
Stefan L. Geiringer*
     
       
/s/ Arthur M. Scutro, Jr.
 
Chairman of the Board
February 12, 2013
Arthur M. Scutro, Jr.*
 
And Trustee
 
       
/s/ Mark R. Ward
 
Trustee
February 12, 2013
Mark R. Ward*
     
       

*  By:          /s/ Mary Carty                
Mary Carty
(Attorney-in-Fact)
 
 

 
Exhibit Index


Type
Description
   
EX-101.INS
XBRL Instance Document
EX-101.SCH
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
EX-101.DEF
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase
EX-101.LAB
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels Linkbase
EX-101.PRE
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase