Yet Jane Gelfand, an attorney and benefits counseling program director at Positive Resource Center--a nonprofit organization in San Francisco that assists those affected by HIV and AIDS--has spent much of the year exhaustively researching the impact the law will have on means-tested
state benefits.
While that is part of Buchanan's concern, he sees the main threat arising from immigrant eligibility for generous welfare
state benefits, such as medical care, food stamps, education, and other benefits.
About 70,000 medicals are carried out each month on people claiming
state benefits for the first time, such as disability living allowance, invalidity or incapacity allowance.
Gray Davis and immigrant-rights groups, angering supporters of the initiative denying education and
state benefits to illegal immigrants.
Employment, labor productivity, and straight-time pay are up, while
state benefits have been cut by 10 percent, the budget is in surplus, inflation has held at 2 percent per year, and government debt has fallen from 50 to 30 percent of GDP.
2 With all the talk about balancing budgets, neither candidate was willing to confront the demographic time-bomb that will explode the federal deficit early in the next century when the post-world War II `baby boom' generation starts to draw on social security, medicare and other
state benefits.
The payments are calculated pursuant to a formula designed to measure the net direct
state benefits accruing from the new business establishment.
In addition, without filling out any other questionnaire, the BenefitsCheckUpRx-Extra Help feature will tell users if they qualify for other federal or
state benefits programs such as Supplemental Security, food stamps or state prescription assistance programs.
The committee today is considering the
state benefits.
Over 64% of budget of the Ministry of Social Development accounts for payment of
state benefits, including 32% of unified monthly benefits to low income families having children.
These series are politically motivated against all the people who rely on
state benefits to survive.
State benefits are an entitlement - they are not a handout from government, neither are they charity.
