Supplemental Security Income

Latest News

HNR: Senator Rand Paul Blocks Aid to Poor Elderly and Disabled Refugees (10/10/11)
HNR: Congress Returns to Lame-Duck Session Facing Full Plate of Unfinished Business (11/29/10)
HNR: Humanitarian Immigrants to Receive Extension of SSI Benefits (10/9/08)
HNR: SSI Extension for Refugees and Asylees in Sight (8/5/08)
NILC: House Passes Supplemental Security Income Extension for Humanitarian Immigrants (7/20/07)
HNR: House Cuts $38.8 Billion from Budget; Slashes Health Care, Student Loans, Child Support and Help for People with Disabilities (2/3/06)
HNR: House and Senate to Attempt Passing a Final Bill Cutting Aid to Poor (12/9/05)
HNR: House Leadership Can't Dig Up Votes to Slash Medicaid, Child Support, Food Stamps, SSI, and Foster Care (11/11/05)
HNR: House Presses for Even Larger Cuts to Low-Income Services (10/14/05)

Policy Analyses and Research

Community Legal Services of Philadelphia: Advocate's Guide to the SSI Extension Law for Humanitarian Immigrants Facing the Loss of their SSI in October 2010 (7/8/10)
NILC: Facts About Supplemental Security Income for Refugees, Asylees, and Other Humanitarian Immigrants (September 2007)
CBPP: Loss of SSI Aid is Impoverishing Thousands of Refugees: Congress Could Prevent Further Hardship (2/8/07)
CBPP: Supplemental Security Income: Supporting People with Disabilities and the Elderly Poor (8/17/05)

Government Resources

SSI Extension for Elderly and Disabled Refugees (H.R. 2608): House Debate Transcript Upon Voice Vote Passage (7/11/07)