Unfortunately. under the SSI Program the affidavit of support is binding for only 3 years. and a growing number of aliens are becoming public charges after the 3year period expires. even though their sponsors are not likely to be poor. The provision that this rule deletes would have made the affidavit of support binding for 5 years for SSI purposes. This would have cut outlays by $330 million over 3 years and financed the 5 additional weeks of unemployment benefits. As you can tell. I believe that the policy of counting a sponsors income in determining SSI eligibility is appropriate. It does not single out any group of immigrants. It applies to alleastern European. Asian.
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