USDA Issues New Guidance on Immigrant Eligibility for Food Stamp Benefits
In June, the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued updated guidance on the eligibility of immigrants for food stamp benefits1 in order “…to assist people in understanding current eligibility requirements.” Read More
State Ends Aid for Battered and Elderly Legal Immigrants
New York State quietly pulled the plug on a small but critical food assistance program which, because of bureaucratic neglect and mismanagement, never delivered on its promise to provide state funded food stamps to elderly immigrants and to immigrants victimized by domestic violence.
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The Court Grants Summary Judgment to the Plaintiffs in Teytelman v. Wing
On February 5, 2005, Judge Diamond of the Supreme Court, New York County, ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in Teytelman v. Wing (Index No. 402767/02.) The Teytelman plaintiffs challenged various immigration related restrictions in the State’s Food Assistance Program (FAP), including the requirement that, to be eligible, the applicant must have been residing in the U.S. on August 22, 1996. The plaintiffs are elderly immigrants and immigrant victims of domestic violence who entered the country after that date. Read More
USDA Issues Proposed Food Stamp Regulations Implementing Immigrant Provisions of the 2002 Farm Bill
On April 16, 2004, the Food and Nutrition Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (FNS) issued proposed regulations implementing the food stamp program provisions of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (FSRIA). See 69 Fed. Reg. 20724, et seq. The 2002 re-authorization of the food stamp program and amendments to its rules was only a small, and relatively inexpensive, part of FSRIA, which dealt primarily with the setting of agricultural subsidy amounts and other major agribusiness related policies. Read More
