family members: The Department of Homeland Security is required by law to review the comments and address substantive ones before issuing a final rule, according to CNN. If the rule is unchanged and survives widely expected legal changes, it could mark a sea change that allows far more immigrants to be rejected from the US or force them to choose to forgo benefits that they or family members would otherwise be eligible to receive. How Trump's new definition of 'public charge' will affect immigrants The proposed rule was published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, initiating a 60-day period for the public to submit comments. The proposal would expand the definition of the public charge provision, a concept that dates back at least to the Immigration Act of 1882 and is defined as someone who is primarily dependent on government assistance, meaning it supplies more than half their income. Read More The proposed rule, announced in September, would expand the public charge concept to include more widely used benefits, including Medicaid, food stamps, housing assistance and the Medicare drug subsidy for low-income seniors. But it only counted cash benefits, such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families or Supplemental Security Income from Social Security.
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