PUBLIC BENEFITS: IMMIGRANTS' ACCESS TO SERVICES
The center focuses on health care access, immigrants' access to services, food and nutrition, the state's eligibility and enrollment system, and TANF.
Recent Immigrants' Access to Services Publications
Many Federal Programs May Be Forced to Verify Citizenship, Exclude Undocumented for First Time (12/19/1997)
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), included language directing that "unqualified" immigrants would no longer be eligible for "federal public benefits."
The Balanced Budget Act of 1997: Immigrant Policy Provisions (09/19/1997)
On August 5, the President signed into law the federal budget reconciliation act for FFY 1998, officially titled the
Balanced Budget Act of 1997. The Act includes a wide variety of important provisions; this Policy Page describes in a
summary way important changes in immigrants' eligibility for public benefits.
Health and Immigrant Benefit Issues Update (07/9/1997)
This Issue of Policy Page provides information on immigrant SSI changes, DSH cuts, and child health proposals included in
the House and Senate Federal Budget Bills, and a status report on implementation of federal benefit cuts for legal immigrants in Texas.
U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Retreats from Bipartisan Budget Agreement (06/13/1997)
Shaw proposal would deny SSI to more disabled legal immigrants.
Welfare Bills are Moving (03/27/1997)
Thirteen bills are scheduled to be heard and public testimony taken. The bills scheduled for hearing include some very problematic provisions and some that would be positive changes to public assistance. Among them is HB 3431, the companion bill to SB 1067, the only legislation offering direct assistance
with the impact of benefits cuts to legal immigrants.
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