SSI Extension for Elderly and Disabled Refugees Act

SSI Extension for Elderly and Disabled Refugees Act - Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to provide a two-year extension of supplemental security income (SSI) through FY2008 for qualified aliens (including asylees and certain Cuban and Haitian entrants).

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 453 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 453

     To amend section 402 of the Personal Responsibility and Work 
 Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to provide for an extension of 
 eligibility for supplemental security income through fiscal year 2008 
   for refugees, asylees, and certain other humanitarian immigrants.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 17, 2005

    Mr. Smith (for himself, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Lugar, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. 
 Brownback, Mr. Lautenberg, and Mr. Feingold) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend section 402 of the Personal Responsibility and Work 
 Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to provide for an extension of 
 eligibility for supplemental security income through fiscal year 2008 
   for refugees, asylees, and certain other humanitarian immigrants.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``SSI Extension for Elderly and 
Disabled Refugees Act''.

SEC. 2. SSI EXTENSION FOR HUMANITARIAN IMMIGRANTS.

    Section 402(a)(2) of the Personal Responsibility and Work 
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1612(a)(2)) is amended 
by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(M) SSI extension through fiscal year 2008.--
                            ``(i) In general.--With respect to 
                        eligibility for benefits for the specified 
                        Federal program described in paragraph (3)(A), 
                        the 7-year period described in subparagraph (A) 
                        shall be deemed to be a 9-year period during 
                        the period that begins on the date of enactment 
                        of the SSI Extension for Elderly and Disabled 
                        Refugees Act and ends on September 30, 2008.
                            ``(ii) Aliens whose benefits ceased in 
                        prior fiscal years.--
                                    ``(I) In general.--Beginning on the 
                                date of the enactment of the SSI 
                                Extension for Elderly and Disabled 
                                Refugees Act, any qualified alien 
                                rendered ineligible for the specified 
                                Federal program described in paragraph 
                                (3)(A) during fiscal years prior to the 
                                fiscal year in which such Act is 
                                enacted solely by reason of the 
                                termination of the 7-year period 
                                described in subparagraph (A) shall be 
                                eligible for such program for an 
                                additional 2-year period in accordance 
                                with this subparagraph, if such alien 
                                meets all other eligibility factors 
                                under title XVI of the Social Security 
                                Act.
                                    ``(II) Payment of benefits.--
                                Benefits paid under subparagraph (I) 
                                shall be paid prospectively over the 
                                duration of the qualified alien's 
                                renewed eligibility.''.
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