Homeland Security investigates potential cash benefit payments to undocumented immigrants

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Among the records sought by federal officials are the names and dates of birth of applicants, their immigration statuses, proof of ineligibility from the Social Security Administration, copies of applications and affidavits in support of applications.
56% : It was created in response to the Welfare Reform Act of 1996, which barred most immigrants from receiving SSI/SSP benefits, officials said.
50% : California's Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants, or CAPI, provides assistance equivalent to federal Supplemental Security Income and State Supplementary Program benefits to "aged, blind, and disabled non-citizens who are ineligible for Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment solely due to their immigration status," according to the California Department of Social Services website.
47% : "The subpoena requests all records from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services -- who administers the state program -- to determine if ineligible illegal aliens received Supplemental Security Income from the Social Security Administration, between January 2021 to present," according to a DHS statement.
44% : She said more than 2 million immigrants who were not eligible to be issued Social Security numbers received them under the Biden administration during fiscal year 2024.
31% : Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says this is 'just the beginning' The new investigation builds on the Memorandum Preventing Illegal Aliens from Obtaining Social Security Act Benefits signed by President Donald Trump on April 15, which was intended to crack down an distributions of taxpayer-funded benefits to undocumented immigrants, according to DHS.

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