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One example of GAO's contribution to improving government performance and preventing fraud and waste is in the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program-the nation's largest cash assistance program for the poor.
Under pressure from the White House and immigrants' advocacy groups, Congress restored some Medicaid benefits to certain legal immigrants as part of the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 [ 19 20 ] . Under the BBA, a legal immigrant could qualify for Medicaid (not restricted to emergency Medicaid) through SSI eligibility if he or she was lawfully in the United States and receiving SSI benefits on August 22, 1996, and subsequently certified under the SSI program as blind or disabled.
Between 1982 and 1993, the number of aliens getting SSI benefits jumped from 128,000 (3 percent of recipients) to 786,000 (12 percent of recipients), at a cost of more than $3 billion a year.
Recent initiatives have included intensified efforts to train private attorneys to provide representation in domestic violence and children's SSI termination cases.
Yet the number on SSI, especially, has soared.