Download or read book Immigration Status Verification for Benefits written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of applicants for healthcare, licenses, and other benefits rely on DHS's SAVE system to verify their immigration or naturalized or derived citizenship status at the request of over 1,000 federal, state, and local user agencies. Agencies use the information from SAVE to help determine an applicant's eligibility for benefits. Programs required or authorized to participate include Medicaid, certain license-issuing programs (such as driver's licenses), federal food and housing assistance, and educational programs. This report examines the extent to which USCIS has (1) determined the accuracy of SAVE information, (2) instituted safeguards to protect privacy and provide the ability to correct erroneous information, and (3) monitored user agency compliance with SAVE program policies. GAO is making nine recommendations to USCIS, including, that USCIS improve guidance and ensure training on verification requirements; develop and implement a more effective method for record correction; and develop a documented, risk-based strategy for monitoring and compliance.
Download or read book Immigration Status Verification for Benefits written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why GAO Did This Study Millions of applicants for healthcare, licenses, and other benefits rely on DHS's SAVE system to verify their immigration or naturalized or derived citizenship status at the request of over 1,000 federal, state, and local user agencies. Agencies use the information from SAVE to help determine an applicant's eligibility for benefits. Programs required or authorized to participate include Medicaid, certain license-issuing programs (such as driver's licenses), federal food and housing assistance, and educational programs. The House Appropriations Committee Report accompanying the DHS Appropriations Act, 2016, included a provision for GAO to review the SAVE program. This report examines the extent to which USCIS has (1) determined the accuracy of SAVE information, (2) instituted safeguards to protect privacy and provide the ability to correct erroneous information, and (3) monitored user agency compliance with SAVE program policies. GAO analyzed SAVE policy documents and performance data, interviewed DHS officials, and interviewed officials from a non-generalizable sample of 13 SAVE user agencies selected to reflect the variety of types of agencies that use SAVE. What GAO Rec
Download or read book Immigration Status Verification for Benefits written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of applicants for healthcare, licenses, and other benefits rely on DHS's SAVE system to verify their immigration or naturalized or derived citizenship status at the request of over 1,000 federal, state, and local user agencies. Agencies use the information from SAVE to help determine an applicant's eligibility for benefits. Programs required or authorized to participate include Medicaid, certain license-issuing programs (such as driver's licenses), federal food and housing assistance, and educational programs. This report examines the extent to which USCIS has (1) determined the accuracy of SAVE information, (2) instituted safeguards to protect privacy and provide the ability to correct erroneous information, and (3) monitored user agency compliance with SAVE program policies. GAO is making nine recommendations to USCIS, including, that USCIS improve guidance and ensure training on verification requirements; develop and implement a more effective method for record correction; and develop a documented, risk-based strategy for monitoring and compliance.
Download or read book Immigration Status Verification for Benefits written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-16 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IMMIGRATION STATUS VERIFICATION FOR BENEFITS: Actions Needed to Improve Effectiveness and Oversight
Download or read book Immigration Reform written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO found that: (1) four of the six states it reviewed estimated costs and savings of about $127,000 and $3.1 million, respectively, in unemployment compensation as a result of alien verification pilot projects; (2) in 1983, California realized over $19 million in savings before it abandoned its verification program as a result of a lawsuit; (3) New York realized about $52,000 in savings but included erroneous payments; (4) only Colorado verified the eligibility of alien applicants for the Medicaid, Food Stamp, and Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) programs, but state officials did not favor continuance of the pilot project because they believed that savings were small and few aliens sought benefits; (5) the six states it reviewed realized savings of about $579,000 in education assistance programs; (6) there was no alien verification for housing programs in the six states, since federal law and the courts prohibited denial of assistance to aliens; and (7) the federal and state governments do not collect data on alien program applicants and verification costs, making savings estimates difficult and unprojectable.
Download or read book Verification of Eligibility for Employment and Benefits written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Immigration Reform written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to Immigrant Eligibility for Federal Programs written by National Immigration Law Center (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive, authoritative reference with chapters on 23 major federal programs, and tables outlining who is eligible for which state replacement programs. Overview chapter and tables explain changes to immigrant eligibility enacted by 1996 welfare and immigration laws. Text describes immigration statuses, gives pictures of typical immigration documents, with keys to understanding the INS codes. Glossary defines over 250 immigration and public benefit terms.
Download or read book Immigration Reform written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Immigration Reform Verifying the Status of Aliens Applying for Federal Benefits written by GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC HUMAN RESOURCES DIV. and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 requires that the immigration status of all alien applicants for Unemployment Compensation, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Medicaid, Food Stamp, and certain housing and education assistance programs be verified with the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Under some circumstances the responsible federal agency can waive the requirement. In seeking the act's passage, the Service told the Congress that verifying all aliens could save billions of dollars annually and was demonstrated in pilot projects under its Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlement (SAVE) program. Opponents of mandatory verification questioned the success of the projects and the reliability of the Service's alien data. The act requires that GAO review the projects' effectiveness, emplementation problems, and applicability to the verification methods envisioned by the act. GAO reviewed verification experiences in California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, New York, and Texas-states the act's legislative history said had pilot projects, and where over 75 percent of all undocumented aliens live.
Download or read book Public Benefits Driver s License Eligibility Immigration Status and Identity Verification written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Immigration Reform written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Code written by United States and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The United States Code is the official codification of the general and permanent laws of the United States of America. The Code was first published in 1926, and a new edition of the code has been published every six years since 1934. The 2012 edition of the Code incorporates laws enacted through the One Hundred Twelfth Congress, Second Session, the last of which was signed by the President on January 15, 2013. It does not include laws of the One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, First Session, enacted between January 2, 2013, the date it convened, and January 15, 2013. By statutory authority this edition may be cited "U.S.C. 2012 ed." As adopted in 1926, the Code established prima facie the general and permanent laws of the United States. The underlying statutes reprinted in the Code remained in effect and controlled over the Code in case of any discrepancy. In 1947, Congress began enacting individual titles of the Code into positive law. When a title is enacted into positive law, the underlying statutes are repealed and the title then becomes legal evidence of the law. Currently, 26 of the 51 titles in the Code have been so enacted. These are identified in the table of titles near the beginning of each volume. The Law Revision Counsel of the House of Representatives continues to prepare legislation pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 285b to enact the remainder of the Code, on a title-by-title basis, into positive law. The 2012 edition of the Code was prepared and published under the supervision of Ralph V. Seep, Law Revision Counsel. Grateful acknowledgment is made of the contributions by all who helped in this work, particularly the staffs of the Office of the Law Revision Counsel and the Government Printing Office"--Preface.
Download or read book Access to Public Assistance Benefits by Illegal Aliens written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on International Law, Immigration, and Refugees and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Immigration Reform written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO examined the effectiveness of the Immigration and Naturalization Service's (INS) Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system, particularly its implementation nationwide. GAO found that: (1) the SAVE system provides quick and positive verification of an alien's immigration status; (2) during a 6-month period, INS detected 734 illegal aliens out of about 13,426 applicants for unemployment compensation benefits; and (3) of the 13,426 cases it examined, approximately 4,100 aliens required secondary verification of their legal status and of those, about 96 percent were legal. GAO also found that: (1) although INS intends to improve its data to ensure accurate, positive primary verifications, such improvement will not occur before the middle of 1988; (2) INS plans to correct the deficiencies in its central system on a case-by-case basis during secondary verification until it implements a nationwide verification system; and (3) since the system is still in the developmental stage, INS has not determined its overall cost.
Download or read book U S Tax Guide for Aliens written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
