Posted on 12/19/2010 3:24:10 PM PST by NoLibZone
Revising food-stamp rules affecting undocumented immigrants in Utah may have saved the federal government more than $2 million, an analysis by the state Department of Workforce Services (DWS) shows.
Between July and October, 2,724 households with undocumented immigrants lost benefits; 788 of those households saw a decline in financial assistance. That equals an estimated $2.1 million in cost savings, according to the analysis.
Food stamps, which help low-income families buy food each month, are available to all eligible U.S. citizens based on household income and family size.
A blended household with U.S.-born children and undocumented parents could potentially still qualify if its income was low enough. Food stamp benefits are paid by the federal government.
Rep. Christopher Herrod, R-Provo, said he was happy with the savings, even if it was not in state dollars.
“It’s saving our children from additional debt,” said the legislator, who is married to a legal immigrant from the Ukraine. “It also goes to show there are costs associated with illegal immigrants.”
In July, Utah began to count all income of household members when determining eligibility for food stamps. In the past, only a portion of undocumented immigrants’ income was counted, due to the limitations of an old computer system. The result was that the income of a family with undocumented members might appear to be lower than a similar family of all native Utahns, making the newcomers eligible for food stamps while the native Utahns were not.
Statewide, 9.1 percent of all households receiving food stamps include undocumented members, according to DWS. In Salt Lake County, 11.1 percent of households on food stamps include undocumented members. The highest numbers are in Summit County where nearly 30 percent of households on food stamps include undocumented residents. Those numbers have not significantly differed since the rules changed.
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California Proposition 187 (also known as the Save Our State (SOS) initiative) was a 1994 ballot initiative designed to create a state-run citizenship screening system in order to prohibit illegal immigrants from using health care, public education, and other social services in the U.S. State of California.
The proposed law was initially passed by the voters through referendum in November 1994 but later found unconstitutional by a federal court, with appeals against the judgment being halted by Governor Gray Davis in 1999.
Well, duh! Heck, there’s no need whatsoever to deport illegal immigrants (except for those in jail). Just cut off the welfare. Those that want to work will stay and those that don’t will head home.
This is a great step taken by a state.
Iam still not sure how liberal media continues to paint people who want to follow the law as racist and xenophobic.
How long before some media outlet calls Utah cold and unfeeling as well as racist for denying illegals gov’t benefits
That’s the reason in much of california you can see illegals line up for food in grocery stores with federal food stamp credit cards. They use credit cards instead of teh old food stamps because they’re easier to administer and less embarrassing for the illegals.
Your tax dollars at work.
In the crudest of crude terms, I can’t see an anti-illegal stance as being anything other than a sure-fire political winner. Like that iconic Depression-era billboard.
“Illegal immigrants keep moving, we can’t take care of our own”.
Since most illegal immigrant families have undeclared income they qualify more easily for food stamps than do citizens who are legally employed.
As Victor David Hansen says..there are “two California’s” and two America’s.
If they cut $2 million in food stamps, they will commit robberies amounting to $3 million. The base amount plus the “La Re conquistador” Tax.
Seems like a common sense solution. Stop the flow of money and maybe they will leave. I only wish they would do this everywhere. And since they identified them deport them as criminals that have stolen from us never to be allowed back.
The legislator married a mail-a-bride?
A fact that far too many refuse to acknowledge.
Why? How about shipping the parents back first and then see if the kids remain here.
What part of illegal do you not undertand? No, fine the heck out of employers who hire illegals. Send them all back across the border.
what happened to the sponsorship of people whom desired to immigrate here from abroad. When my brother-in-laws parents immigrated to the US from Germany after WWII, to Louisana they had to have a sponsor whom assisted them with the housing, food and a job. After they were here in the us for 5 years and able to stand on their 2 feet they moved from Louisana to Wisconsin, where my brother-in-laws father got a job at briggs and Stratton assembling lan mower engines till he retired. than he got his pension, social security from the USA and Germany.
on the other hand I have a niece (from my brother who got his girlfriend pregnant at the age of 17), and my niece had her first child at age 17. the next 2 were fathered by an illegal alien. the 2 boys are now 5 and 3, and he is still an illegal alien working in a restaurant. She does not work receives food stamps of 500.00 a month and rental assistance in Milwuakee for an 800.00 a month apartment. they are supposedly married but live separately. I have not seen here for awhile and usually that means she is pregnant with another child.
This real chaps my backside. I like the way it was done in the past Now immigrants live tax free for years and have been given a free ride for too long. Illegal immigration is wrong. i know here in the UP of Michigan there are illegals whom strive to get over the Canadian - US Border in Sault Ste marie (I-75) and they arrested shortly after getting across the border - they hide in the trunk of the vehicle, get to Michigan and decide to exit the trunk and bing bang they are busted right away. At times they get as far as the Mackinac bridge and are busted after crossing over the bridge too, because the stop at the rest area and the person gets out of the trunk there too.
If these poor souls “live in the shadows”, how can they give such concrete numbers on how many illegals actually GET food stamps? And how in the world do they get them to begin with? My last 2 trips to Aldi, able-bodied Latinos checked out overflowing baskets of food, used their EBT card, and their share of the bill? $6. Meanwhile, I only had enough money budgeted to fill one reusuable grocery sack. Makes my blood boil.
Well, not without conditions. IMO, if you want to work, you should be able to stay, but you cannot collect social benefits, you must speak English, and employers must pay at least the federal minimum wage (to prevent the use of sub-MW labor).
the Mormons who run Utah have decided to take a “compassionate” position towards illegals.
Utah is toast as the illegals outbreed even the Mormons.
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