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The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, a federal law that established categories of immigrant eligibility for public benefits.
Federal law largely bars undocumented immigrants from federally funded programs such as Medicaid, SNAP, SSI and TANF, but it also explicitly permits states to use their own funds to cover populations ...
The () is a federal, taxpayer-funded nutrition program administered by the , and federal rules and research indicate that WIC does not categorically bar participation by undocumented immigrants — emer...
Eligibility rules sharply constrain which immigrants can legally access federal and many state benefits, and recent policy changes will narrow that access further—effects that both reduce actual usage...
States determine SNAP eligibility by applying federal rules set by USDA—annual income and resource standards, deductions, and categorical eligibility—while exercising state-level administration and ce...