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## Public Benefits
#### Immigrants use less public benefits than native citizens
* [CATO: Ku and Bruen 13](https://www.cato.org/publications/economic-development-bulletin/poor-immigrants-use-public-benefits-lower-rate-poor)
* Poor immigrants use public benefits at a lower rate than poor native-born citizens
* MEDICARE/MEDICAID
* More than **one quarter** of **native citizens** and naturalized citizens in poverty receive Medicaid, but only about **one in five non-citizens** do so.
* Immigrants who receive Medicaid or CHIP tend to have **lower per beneficiary medical expenditures** than native-born people
* SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION
* **33%** of native citizens, **25 percent** of naturalized citizens, and **29 percent** of non-citizens received SNAP benefits in 2011
* SSI / INCOME
* SSI receipt was **higher for native** and naturalized citizens than non-citizen immigrants.