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While its complexity makes it difficult to use, the survey is widely regarded as providing the most accurate picture of welfare participation.

The SIPP shows immigrant households use welfare at significantly higher rates than native households, even higher than indicated by other Census surveys. In51 percent of households headed by an immigrant legal or illegal reported that they used at least one welfare program during the year, compared to 30 percent of native households.

Welfare in this study includes Medicaid and cash, food, and housing programs.

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Welfare use is high for both new arrivals and well-established immigrants. Of households headed by immigrants who have been in the country for more than two decades, 48 percent access welfare. For example, not counting subsidized school lunch, welfare use is still 46 percent for immigrants and 28 percent for natives.

Not counting Medicaid, welfare use is 44 percent for immigrants and 26 percent for natives. Immigrant households have much higher use of food programs 40 percent vs.

Immigrant use of cash programs is somewhat higher than natives 12 percent vs.

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Welfare use varies among immigrant groups. Households headed by immigrants from Central America and Mexico 73 percentthe Caribbean 51 percentand Africa 48 percent have the highest overall welfare use.

Many immigrants struggle to support their children, and a large share of welfare is received on behalf of U. However, even immigrant households without children have significantly higher welfare use than native households without children — 30 percent vs.

The welfare system is designed to help low-income workers, especially those with children, and this describes many immigrant households. In51 percent of immigrant households with one or more workers accessed one or more welfare programs, as did 28 percent of working native households.

The large share of immigrants with low levels of education and resulting low incomes partly explains their high use rates.

In76 percent of households headed by an immigrant who had not graduated high school used one or more welfare programs, as did 63 percent of households headed by an immigrant with only a high school education. The high rates of immigrant welfare use are not entirely explained by their lower education levels.

Households headed by college-educated immigrants have significantly higher welfare use than households headed by college-educated natives — 26 percent vs. In the four top immigrant-receiving states, use of welfare by immigrant households is significantly higher than that of native households: California 55 percent vs.

Illegal immigrants are included in the SIPP.

In a forthcoming report, we will estimate welfare use for immigrants by legal status. However, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of immigrant households using welfare are headed by legal immigrants.

Most new legal immigrants are barred from welfare programs when they first arrive, and illegal immigrants are barred as well. But the ban applies to only some programs; most legal immigrants have been in the country long enough to qualify for at least some programs and the bar often does not apply to children; states often provide welfare to new immigrants on their own; naturalizing makes immigrants eligible for all programs; and, most important, immigrants including illegal immigrants can receive benefits on behalf of their U.

The heavy use of welfare by less-educated immigrants has three important policy implications: However, there is widespread agreement that the SIPP provides the most accurate picture of welfare use of any Census Bureau survey.

Duringthe SIPP shows that 51 percent of immigrant households used at least one major welfare program during the year, compared to 30 percent of native households — a 21 percentage-point difference.Publication Cat.

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