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Providing National Statistics on Health and Social Welfare Programs in an Era of Change Summary of a Workshop (1998) / Chapter Skim
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... This cash-out program is restricted to states in which at least 50 percent of the food stamp recipients received AFDC in 1993. BENEFITS FOR IMMIGRANTS PRWORA limits assistance to legal immigrants: legal immigrants are barred from receiving SSI and food stamps, while states have the option to determine the eligibility of current legal immigrants for assistance under TANF and Medicaid.4 Newly arriving legal immigrants are barred from all means-tested, federally funded public benefits for the first 5 years they are in the United States, after which states may provide services.
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... mandates several changes in the private health insurance market that may affect participation and costs for Medicaid and other social welfare programs. For example, HIPAA extends the portability of health insurance coverage for workers who change jobs, and it limits restrictions on pre-existing conditions for new coverage.
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