Now. lets say this individual regularizes their position and has paid into Social Security. If that person dies. their survivors would be eligible for survivor benefits. but not under the Ensign amendment. It is interesting. some 85 percent of immigrantheaded households include at least one U.S. citizen. Under the Ensign proposal. citizen children may not be eligible for survivor benefits if their parents had gained legal status or even citizenship but die before they gained the 40 hours of coverage. The Ensign amendment effectively would deprive the immigrants who have become legal residents of the right to receive Social Security credits for the payroll tax payments they made on the work they performed when they were undocumented. Some do now. The 1986 act permitted 3 million peoplethey received the amnesty. That was amnesty. We did not move ahead in terms of the enforcement against the undocumented afterwards. But that was amnesty. Now they are able to receive the benefits today.
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