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A new Social Security Legislative Bulletin reveals that recent legislation passed to appropriate funds to help Ukraine in its struggle for survival also contains language concerning Ukrainian refugees and SSI. Those refugees will now be eligible for SSI if they otherwise meet its requirements and Social Security must not count the income and resources of their sponsors.
Now, if this could also be done for other refugees!
What about Puerto Rico?
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ReplyDeleteThere's one key distinction between Ukranians and Puerto Ricans which make that unlikely.
In any event, I thought legal residents did have access to SSI? And being refugees, that is legal (albeit temporary) residency, right?
You have to be a legal permanent resident with several other factors involved. Most LAPR’s don’t meet ALL requirements.
ReplyDeleteRefugee status is completely different
There has always been different SSI policy for refugees. After 1996, however, new LAPR immigrants no longer could get a check the month after they entered the US, although there are exceptions. Most immigrants have to become citizens before SSI gives them free money. But refugees can be paid for seven years (and there was a 2 year extension for them a decade or so ago) and can be paid the month after they enter the US, if they meet the age or disability requirements.
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