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Elderly and Disabled Refugees Face a Cut-Off of Benefits After 7 Years
The New York Times has an editorial on the issue of elderly and disabled refugees facing a cut-off of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) due to the 7 year time limit for non-citizens. Some of these...
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Refugees could lose SSI benefits without congressional action
Many elderly and disabled refugees could lose Supplemental Security Income benefits without congressional action. Congress extended the deadline for refugees pursuing citizenship once in 2008, so that...
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Sen. Rand Paul blocks benefit funding bill for elderly & disabled refugees
Freshman Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican and co-founder of the Senate Tea Party Caucus, is blocking the bill that would extend funding for one year for about 5,600 elderly and disabled refugees....
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Colorado’s eligibility crackdown on Old Age Pension exempts refugees & other...
Colorado’s eligibility crackdown on its Old Age Pension will not effect elderly refugees. Formerly, immigrants living in Colorado could sponsor their elderly parents as immigrants by telling the...
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Senate bill to extend SSI to elderly, disabled refugees conditioned upon...
Freshman Sen. Rand Paul finally ended his two-week hold on extending Supplemental Security Income to elderly and disabled refugees, by demanding that the Senate Judiciary Committee’s immigration panel...
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Roundtable Panel in Austin, TX Discusses Older Refugees
A roundtable panel discussion In Austin addresses the issue of older refugees. Panelists included Zarni Tun (resettlement case manager with Refugee Services of Texas); Lorel Donaghey (employment...
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Public Housing residents in Chattanooga claim refugees “abandoned”, ask for...
Residents of the Boynton Terrace public housing site in Chattanooga report ongoing problems that refugees are having adapting to life in their new country. This is the same site where a woman from...
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Refugees in Rochester, NY still under attack
It’s now been almost two years since this blog reported on attacks occurring on refugees in Rochester, NY. The US refugee program has not solved the problem and continues to resettle refugees to this...
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Most elderly refugees stay home without exercising; don’t know existing...
There is a serious problem in the US refugee program with elderly refugees becoming isolated soon after resettlement, eventually falling into ill health and ending up in emergency rooms while never...
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Elderly refugees struggle
As difficult as it is for refugees to adjust to a new culture, language, job, and all the other changes they must confront during resettlement, it’s even more difficult for refugees who are elderly....
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