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Impact of Illegal Aliens on Public Assistance Programs: Too
Little Is Known. GGD-78-20; B-125051. December 1, 1977. 3 pp. +
6 appendices (32 pp.).
Report to Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, Cbaii.man-, Seriate Committee on
Budget; Sen. Henry Bellmon, Ranking Minority Member; by Elmer B.
Staats, Comptroller General.
Issue Area: Income Security Programs (1300).
Contact: General Governent Div.
Budget Function: Law Enforcement and Justice: Federal Law
Enforcement and Prosecution (751).
Organization Concerned: Department of Justice.
Congressional Relevance: Senate Cormittee on Budget. Sen. Henry
Bellmon.
Existing information is inadequate to reasonably
estimate the extent or cost of illegal aliens receiving public
assistance under Federal, State, and local government programs.
Whether the payments i.legal aliens cont:-ibute to the wslfare
system by paying taxes are sufficient to offset the benefits
received is also unknown. However, public assistatce programs do
not appear to provide significant incentives for aliens to enter
and remain in the United States illegally. The impact of illegal
aliens on the following public assistance programs was
investigated: Aid to Families with Dependent Children,
Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid/Medicare, food stamps,
unemployment insurance, and pubiic education and housing.
Findings/Conclusions: Medical assistance, uremployment
insurance, and public education may be the programs most used by
illegal aliens. Public assistance used by illegal aliens may
place a greater financial burden on State and local governments
than on the Federal Government. Access to public assistance
programs by illegal aliens can be cbtained through use of
illicit documents, absence of statutory or regulatory denial,
administrative error, or court order. The indirect burden placed
on public assistance programs by illegal aliens (such as
displacing citizens in jobs, causing them to seek public
assistance, and aid to U.S. citizen children of illegal aliens)
may be greater than that caused by direct participation in the
programs. Although the data suggest that the tctal dollars
illegal aliens send to their home countries is significant, only
a minor part appears i.o come from public assistance dollars.
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