LIEBERMAN. DEWINE. MOYNIHAN. and MIKULSKI and I are introducing legislation to protect legal immigrants who are facing the loss of critical SSI and food stamp benefits later this summer. Now that the welfare bill has become law. the crisis facing many legal immigrants. especially the elderly and disabled. Is all too evident. For those legal immigrants who face the loss of assistance in August and September. the outlook is grim. The bill we are introducing focuses on the plight of these legal immigrants. First. our bill grandfathers all legal immigrants who were receiving SSI or food stamp benefits as of August 22. 1996. the date the President signed the welfare bill. Second. our bill grandfathers those refugees who were in the country on August 22. 1996. regardless of whether they were receiving benefits. Why this approach? To us.
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