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PRWORA 1996

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 and its impact on noncitizen access to federal public benefits

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How did the 1996 PRWORA law change immigrant access to benefits and what program-by-program exceptions exist today?

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) rewrote the rules for noncitizen access to federal public benefits by creating a binary framework—“qualified” versu...