WELFARE LETTERS SENT OUT THE NEW YORK TIMES.The Clinton administration Noun 1. Clinton administration - the executive under President Clinton executive - persons who administer the law began sending letters to one million legal immigrants Wednesday telling them that they might soon lose welfare benefits because they were not citizens. The letters went out even as President Clinton prepared to ask a skeptical Congress for more money to continue benefits for some of the immigrants scheduled to lose aid under the new welfare law. In his State of the Union address “State of the Union” redirects here. For other uses, see State of the Union (disambiguation). The State of the Union is an annual address in which the President of the United States reports on the status of the country, normally to a joint session of Congress (the Tuesday, Clinton urged Congress to restore health and disability benefits for noncitizens. The deadline for mailing the letters is March 31, but administration officials said they intended to send the notices over the next eight weeks. The benefits, under the Supplemental Security Income Supplemental Security Income A Social Security program established to help the blind, disabled, and poor. program, average $410 a month. The recipients all have very low incomes. Some are elderly; many are disabled. Some live in nursing homes. Some have resided in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. for years but have not become citizens. Each letter starts with this admonition Any formal verbal statement made during a trial by a judge to advise and caution the jury on their duty as jurors, on the admissibility or nonadmissibility of evidence, or on the purpose for which any evidence admitted may be considered by them. : ``Important notice. You may lose your S.S.I.'' It goes on to say that the new welfare law, signed by Clinton on Aug. 22, allows Supplemental Security Income benefits only for citizens and certain noncitizens, including refugees, military veterans, active-duty members of the armed forces and people who have worked in the United States for at least 10 years. More than 320,000 letters are being sent to noncitizens in California. The next biggest batch, more than 120,000, is going to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of state, with Florida and Texas also getting large numbers. |
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