I feel it is important. to let you know why I prefer a separate floor amendment to accomplish the changes being selfexecuted by this rule. The rule deletes the provision which would have increased from 3 to 5 years the sponsortoalien deeming period of the Supplemental Security Income or SSI Program. and it scales back the duration of the EUC Program by 5 weeks so that it will end on New Years Day. As a result. about 38.000 sponsors who pledged to maintain and support individuals legally immigrating to the United States will be held to that pledge for purposes of the SSI Program for only 3. instead of 5. years and 300.000 longterm unemployed workers will not be able to claim emergency unemployment compensation in the first 5 weeks of 1994. I would like to clear up some misunderstandings which seem to exist about the sponsortoalien deeming provision in the Ways and Means Committee bill. Under current law. the income and resources of sponsors are deemed to be available to the alien in determining eligibility and payment amounts for the alien under the SSI Program.
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