Illegal SNAP: Food stamp formula biased in favor of immigrants? – IOTW Report

Illegal SNAP: Food stamp formula biased in favor of immigrants?

Watchdog TX: Texas issues food stamps to households with illegal immigrants, but the state cannot say how much or how many.

Applications do not collect that data, the Health and Human Services Commission told Watchdog.org.

By law, illegal immigrants are not eligible to receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which dispensed $5,260,941,424 in food stamps across Texas in fiscal 2015.

According to HHSC, which administers food stamps via the Lone Star card, “If an applicant or client reports having an unlawfully present immigrant in the household, the immigrant’s income is counted as income for that household’s SNAP benefits.”

The calculation, required under federal law, divides the immigrant’s income evenly among the number of household members.

“All prorated shares of the income count as income for the eligible household members, except the unlawful immigrant’s share,” HHSC said.

A report by the Center for Immigration Studies confirmed this month that SNAP provides benefits to families housing illegal immigrants “while denying benefits to an identical family comprised of only U.S. citizens.”

Notably, CIS found that some states do not count all the income of the ineligible illegal immigrants – effectively setting a lower bar for those households to receive benefits.  more here

5 Comments on Illegal SNAP: Food stamp formula biased in favor of immigrants?

  1. it would be cheaper and more sane to just send the money to their home countries to keep them there instead of coming here.

    now we send the money and they are deported to our country by their home country so the leaders can keep the money and lets us support their welfare cases.

    good deal.
    for them.

  2. They’re not Illegal Immigrants. That implies that they came in the “front door”, their paperwork just hasn’t been finished (or it’s been lost, or the dog ate it, whatever)

    These are Illegal ALIENS, Invaders that snuck in through the back door, no paperwork at all, never intending to get any immigration paperwork. The only “papers” they’re interested in are green, about six inches long, and can be spent for goods and services.

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