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  • HHS - Adminstration for Children and Families, Office of Refugee Resettlement
  • HHS - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Q&A guidances explain current rules governing immigrants' eligibility for Medicaid and SCHIP
  • HHS interpretation of “Federal Public Benefit” identifying HHS programs that fit within the 1996 welfare law’s definition (August 4, 1998)
  • Interagency Notice on INS (USCIS) reporting - guidance for benefit granting agencies (DOJ, INS, HHS, DOL, SSA, September 28, 2000)    [HTML]
  • Public Charge Guidance - clarifies the definition of “public charge” and types of government assistance that do and do not affect a public charge determination by INS (USCIS) (DOJ-INS May 26, 1999) [HTML]
  • “Final Specification of Community Programs Necessary for the Protection of Life and Safety,”   Attorney General’s guidance that identifies community programs, services, or assistance for which all non-citizens remain eligible (DOJ January 16, 2001)  [HTML]
  • DOJ pamphlet  on “Federal Protection Against National Origin Discrimination” (Available in Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu, Vietnamese)
  • DOJ Initiative to Combat the Post September 11th Discriminatory Backlash
  • Information on how to file a civil rights complaint with DOJ Civil Rights Division
  • Institute of Medicine Report: “Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care” (March 20, 2002)
  • USDA Food and Nutrition Services immigrant information:
    • USDA immigrant eligibility and access guidance: “Non-Citizen Requirements in the Food Stamp Program” (January 2003)
    • Food Stamp program: “Nutrition Benefits and Public Charge: Effect on Immigration Status”
Content created by Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
Content last reviewed November 30, 2015
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