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Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)

A federal law enacted in 1996 that sets the baseline for noncitizen eligibility for public benefits, including the sorting of noncitizens into 'qualified' and 'unqualified' groups.

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Can illegal immigrants get government benefits

Unauthorized (undocumented) immigrants are generally barred from most federally funded public benefits under laws enacted since 1996, though narrow emergency and program-specific exceptions exist; sta...