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By Madison Czopek January 31, 2022. Fact-checking claim about immigrants, eligibility for assistance programs. If Your Time is short. Most immigrants living illegally in the country are not...
Legal immigrants use federal public benefit programs at lower rates than U.S.-born citizens. As recently as 2013, the rate at which non-citizens have used public benefit programs was less than that of U.S.-born citizens.
The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre has published a report looking at the likelihood of immigrants to receive welfare benefits, compared to natives.
Illegal immigrants make extensive use of welfare. Based on government data, we estimate that 59 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants use one or more major welfare programs, compared to 39 percent of households headed by the U.S.-born.
The 1996 welfare law produced sharp decreases in public benefits participation by immigrants. Proponents of welfare “reform” saw that fact as evidence of the law’s success, noting that a reduction of welfare use, particularly among immigrants, was precisely what the legislation intended.
Undocumented immigrants are generally ineligible for federal public benefit programs, such as Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, sometimes referred to as food stamps).
A growing number of states are opening taxpayer-funded health insurance programs to immigrants, including those living in the U.S. without authorization, even as Republicans assail President Joe...
