So If both qualify for the maximum. their families or charities would have to bridge the 3O0plus gap between their SSI benefits and the new state benefits. Not all noncltizens face this peril. Inungrants granted asylum and refugees were excluded. and anyone who can show roughly 10 years of work. even combined with their spouses work history. can remain on the rolls. SSI benefits ara administered by the Social Security Administration. but they come from general tax revenues. not Social Security taxes. Boyack. who worked off the books as a nanny. never paid federal income taxes. Lopez did. hut not for the required 10 years. Neither womans husband ever came to the United States. so they cannot be counted In the work experience minimum. both men are deceased. Activists say women like Lopez and Boyack are victims of flawed reasoning behind welfare cuts fcr immigrants. a population that frequently works off the books or has not been in the United States long enough to draw meaningful Social Security benefits. SSI becomes their only alternaLlve. by default. That option is about to disappear. "I feel very worried and sad." raid Lucrocla Lopez. "I asked myself.
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Immigrants frequently work off the books or have not been in the United States long enough to draw meaningful Social Security benefits.