Space permits me to touch upon only a few of these questions. The $52.9 million additional costs for benefits is based on the assumption that all inmigrants were on the welfare rolls from the first day of the calendar year and received a grant throughout the year. But analysts from the DtSS have pointed out that these migrants would have been absorbed onto the caseload over the course of the year and at least a third of them would have been off assistance for at least one month during the remainder of the year. The DHSS analysts conclude that an average stay on welfare of five months. not twelve months. be used in the computation. In their opinion the estimate in "Financial Impact" overstates the additional benefit expenditures by 140 percent.28 Furthermore the study uses gross Inmigration. ignoring the fact that people leave Wisconsin.
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Assumes all immigrants are on welfare from day one.