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The growth in noncitizen SSI caseloads 1979-1996
— aging versus new immigrant effects | | Author(s) | Jennifer Van Hook, Frank D Bean |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 54B, no 1, January 1999 |
| Pages | pp S16-S23 |
| Keywords | Social security benefits ; Ethnic groups ; Poverty ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This research aims to assess the degree to which the recent growth in the rate of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) usage is concentrated among recently arrived older immigrants or among earlier arrived immigrants who have "aged in place" and thus become eligible for benefits. The authors used data from the 1980 and 1990 US Census and the 1997 Current Population Survey (CPS), to examine whether the growth in the older non-citizen caseload during the 1980s and 1990s may be attributed to increases in rates of receipt among newly arrived older immigrants, to increases in rates of receipts among "settled" immigrants who have aged into categories that allow them to obtain SSI benefits, or to increases in the number of people in each of these groups. The major contribution to growth in the non-citizen older SSI caseload has been the significant increase in the rate of receipt among those who have lived in the US for more than 10 years (a smaller increase occurred among recent arrivals). This factor accounts for about half of the total growth in the caseload and cannot be explained by increases in poverty among non-citizens. The idea that SSI has acted as a magnet for poor older immigrants is not supported by these findings. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990423008 A |
| Classmark | JH: TK: W6: 3J: 7T |
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