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“Facts About” SSI, ICHIA, and Food Stamps: Resources Updated

Immigrants' Rights Update, Vol. 21, Issue 1, February 20, 2007

    NILC’s Dinah Wiley, public benefits policy attorney, recently updated the following fact sheets, which are posted on our website:  “Facts about Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for Refugees, Asylees and Other Humanitarian Immigrants;”  “Facts about the Immigrant Children’s Health Improvement Act;” and “Fact Sheet: Immigrants and the Food Stamp Program.”

    In addition, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities recently published a report titled, “Loss of SSI Is Impoverishing Thousands of Refugees: Congress Could Prevent Further Hardship,” available on CBPP’s website.

(Links on this page updated 1/24/08.)