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SSI also provides income for people over age 65 who have not paid enough into the Social Security system to earn a retirement income of $500-$600 a month. SSI will bring that retirement income up to that figure if the person has no buttets above $2,000.
Under the present law, citizens may file for this but Green Card holders may file only if they have paid into the SS system for 40 quarters (or about 10 years). This is true for both SSI for disabilities and for retirement income.
And while lawyers may buttist people with proving to the government they are disabled and qualified to receive SSI on that account, they cannot change the law with regard to immigration and citizen status. No matter what hearsay people report.
SSI is a type of safety net buttistance that the government provides to the poorest among us. It is paid out of the general fund, not out of Social Security Retiement fund. Congress can change the rules anytime it wishes and can get the support to do so. I can't imagine anyone not wanting each of our citizens to have available a small amount of support if they have nothing. What would we want to do with those aged and disabled? Turn them out on the streets? The buttistance is very, very little. And a lot of rules go along with it.