Clinton OKs Aid for 20,000 Immigrants
From Times Wire Reports
President Clinton signed legislation allowing an estimated 20,000 immigrants, mostly poor and elderly, to continue receiving supplemental security income benefits. Clinton said the legislation reverses “unduly harsh” restrictions on federal assistance to legal immigrants. Non-U.S. citizens were removed from SSI rolls under the welfare reform law of 1996. Congress later extended the benefits through Sept. 30, 1998.
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