Welfare Enrollment by Immigrants Significantly Higher Than U.S.-Born

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Originally Posted by warhorse78

Where I work, we have two ladies that are a good example of how messed up our system is. One is a natural born American citizen, 3rd generation. She is an older woman who has to rely on social security to help pay the bills but she cannot work over a certain amount of hours or make over a certain amount of money or she will lose her benefits. She is living in a crappy low cost apartment complex and drives a pos car and had to cut the cable because she can no longer afford it.

There is another woman who is an immigrant from Mexico of about 40 years now. She gets welfare because she has two kids that are on the sickly side and this welfare is enough for her to afford a nice apartment that runs 3,000 a month, has $1,500 food vouchers as well as on programs to help keep the utilities at a low price. And yet she is also allowed to work as many hours as she wants as well as collect child support from an ex so she has extra money to afford a brand new Mercedes Benz and also to afford cable and state of the art security for her home. Not to mention she sends her kids to private schools. So something is definitely wrong here.

I don't believe that the immigrant is getting that much money from welfare. Maximum SNAP benefit for Florida is under $300 per person. Child support counts as income as well, and SNAP is cut off at 130% of poverty level income. Use a real example next time, not a Reagan era "welfare queen" trope.

The woman on Social Security is subject to the same laws as the rest of us. Until you reach Full Retirement Age, Social Security benefits are reduced by 50 cents for each dollar you make above a certain limit:

f you are under full retirement age for the entire year, we deduct $1 from your benefit payments for every $2 you earn above the annual limit. For 2023, that limit is $21,240. In the year you reach full retirement age, we deduct $1 in benefits for every $3 you earn above a different limit.