(Breitbart) – A strikingly high percentage of refugees to
the United States use some form of public assistance, according to a government
report to Congress.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement’s Annual Report to
Congress for FY2013 reveals that nearly 3 in 4 refugees were on food
stamps.
Additionally, nearly half were on some form of cash
assistance and more than a half were on medical assistance. More than 20
percent were on Supplemental Security Income, more than 22 percent were in
public housing and nearly 20 percent were on Temporary Assistance for Needy
Families (TANF).
The report noted that many households received more than one
type of assistance and the data dealt with refugees who arrived in the U.S.
between March 1, 2008 to February 28, 2013.
To be sure, assistance use varied among region of origin.
Refugees from Africa and the Middle East were the heaviest
users of cash assistance at 61.9 percent and 68.3 percent respectively. Latin
American refugees only used cash assistance at a rate of 8.1 percent and South
Asia used about 42.7 percent. Data for Europe and the former Soviet Union was
not available.
The use of food stamps — or the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP) — also varied with 88.9 percent of refugees from
Africa, 91.4 percent of Middle Eastern refugees, the Middle East, 72.9
percent of South Asia, and 36.7 percent of Latin American refugees using the
benefit.
Overall, according to the report just 50 percent of refugee
households in the five year window were self-sufficient.
“Approximately 50 percent of all sampled refugee households
in the 2013 survey were entirely self-sufficient (subsisted on earnings
alone),” the report reads. “About 39 percent lived on a combination of public
assistance and earned income; another eight percent received only public
assistance.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/01/3-in-4-refugees-on-food-stamps-many-using-other-forms-of-public-assistance/
http://www.teaparty.org/3-4-refugees-usa-food-stamps-92449/
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