Example sentences for: ssi

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Yet the number on SSI, especially, has soared.

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

  • Legal immigrants who are not yet naturalized (unless they are refugees, seeking asylum, have worked here 10 years, or are veterans or in the military) lose both food stamps and benefits they might be receiving from the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program for the aged and disabled.


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