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  2. Public charge rule - Wikipedia

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    The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 raised the standards for sponsors of immigrants, requiring them to show greater financial capacity and obligating them to reimburse the government for means-tested public benefits received by the immigrant they sponsor. [6]

  3. Prucol - Wikipedia

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    It allows for a broader group of non-citizens to qualify for benefits than just those with green cards. This status is used solely for benefit application purposes and is not recognized as an immigration status by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). This category was created by the courts and is a public benefits eligibility ...

  4. Means test - Wikipedia

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    Today, means-tested benefits—meaning that entitlement is affected by the amount of income, savings, capital and assets— is a central feature of the benefit system. [3] Means testing is also part of the determination of legal aid in a magistrates court and for the higher Crown Court .

  5. Supplemental Security Income - Wikipedia

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    Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a means-tested program that provides cash payments to disabled children, disabled adults, and individuals aged 65 or older who are citizens or nationals of the United States. [1] SSI was created by the Social Security Amendments of 1972 and is incorporated in Title 16 of the Social Security Act.

  6. Free migration - Wikipedia

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    Free migration or open immigration is the position that people should be able to migrate to whatever country they choose with few restrictions. From a human-rights perspective, free migration may be seen to complement Article 13 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights :

  7. Unemployment Assistance Board - Wikipedia

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    The Board kept a system of means-tested benefits and increased the number of people who could claim relief. According to Tony Lynes "The board was a constitutional innovation: a department of government with its own budget, headed not by a minister but by the six members of the board, appointed by the Minister of Labour but for whose actions he ...

  8. Talk:Means test - Wikipedia

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    Means-tested benefit appears to currently cover the subject of benefits using means tests in the United Kingdom. This topic is better covered in Welfare state in the United Kingdom than in a separate article. I'm not convinced that a list of means-tested benefits in the UK is a useful or notable subject.

  9. Unemployment Insurance Act 1924 - Wikipedia

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    The Labour Cabinet disagreed on whether means testing should be abolished or whether such a move would prove too costly. The compromise was that the test for receiving benefits would be whether a person was "genuinely seeking work". The 1924 Act extended to "genuinely seeking work" test to all benefited claims. [1]