Example sentences for: ssi

How can you use “ssi” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Reforms focused partly on immigrants, following testimony from the General Accounting Office estimating that slightly more than half of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits provided to elderly persons were collected by noncitizens in 1995 [ 13 14 ] . In justifying PRWORA [ 15 ] , the House Ways and Means Committee stated that it had been a basic tenet of US immigration policy since 1882 that legal immigrants should not be eligible for public benefits.

  • 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.

  • The big cuts were in SSI benefits to current legal immigrants, and these cuts accounted for most of the welfare reform "savings."

  • Won 87 SSI/SSD cases enabling clients to receive $850,016 in retroactive benefits, saving state taxpayers $441,786 and enabling people with disabilities to live with dignity.

  • SSI applications require detailed information from treatment and service providers to succeed.


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