Extension of Indochina Refugee Assistance Program: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 9133, H.R. 9134, and H.R. 9110 ... September 23 and 27, 1977U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - 236 pages |
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100 percent additional administration bill adult education adult Indochina refugees AFDC AFDC families American appropriate areas August 11 boat BREEN California Cambodia cash assistance Chairman Church World Service coalition committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Congressman continue continuing resolution D.C. DEAR Department educational agency eligible employment Federal funding fiscal FISH grants HABIB HOLMAN House Indochina Migration Indochinese Refugee Assistance IRAP program JOSHUA EILBERG KLEIN Laos legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS medical assistance ment mental health Migration and Refugee million months North Dakota persons phasedown problem proposal public assistance receiving Refugee Assistance Act Refugee Assistance Program refugee population reimbursement resettlement agencies residents responsibility San Diego San Diego County SAWYER Secretary September 27 September 30 social services special projects sponsors STARK subsection terminate Thailand tion Title XX Total UNHCR United Vietnam Vietnamese voluntary agencies Washington welfare WORTMAN
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Page 69 - US acceded in 1968. provides, in pertinent pan: the term "refugee" shall apply to any person who . . . owing to wellfounded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion...
Page 69 - January 1951 and owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country...
Page 180 - Location' (see page 1 of questionnaire) 1 Alabama 2 Alaska 3 Arizona 4 Arkansas 5 California 6 Colorado 7 Connecticut 8 Delaware 9 District of Columbia 10 Florida 11 Georgia 12 Hawaii 13 Idaho 14 Illinois 15 Indiana 16 Iowa 17 Kansas 18 Kentucky 19 Louisiana 20 Maine 21 Maryland 22 Massachusetts 23 Michigan 24 Minnesota 25 Mississippi 26 Missouri...
Page 196 - ... neglect, abuse, or exploitation of children and adults unable to protect their own interests, or preserving, rehabilitating, or reuniting families 4. preventing or reducing inappropriate institutional care by providing for community-based care, home-based care, or other forms of less intensive care 5. securing referral or admission for institutional care when other forms of care are not appropriate, or providing services to individuals in institutions...
Page 29 - The Commission shall make such interim reports as it deems advisable, and it shall make a final report of its findings and recommendations to the President of the United States and to the Congress within the one-year period following the effective date of this subsection. Sixty days after submission of its final report, the Commission shall cease to exist...
Page 189 - ... of language and literacy skills in English, and the development and enhancement of necessary skills (such as consumer, social, survival, occupational, and communication skills) for the purpose of enabling the adult refugees to become employable and productive members of the American society.
Page 196 - Services directed at the following principal goals : 1. Achieving or maintaining economic self-support to prevent, reduce, or eliminate dependency. 2. Achieving or maintaining self-sufficiency, including reduction or prevention of dependency. 3. Preventing or remedying neglect, abuse, or exploitation of children and adults unable to protect their own interests, or preserving, rehabilitating, or reuniting families. 4. Preventing or reducing inappropriate institutional care by providing for community-based...
Page 66 - SRS-AT-75-8, prior to the implementation or. this Action Transmittal, will be accepted.) Relationship to SSI 1. All refugee recipients who are 65 years of age or older or who are blind or disabled will be referred immediately to the Social Security Administration to apply for SSI benefits. Such refugee will be included in the assistance benefit using , the AFDC standard until SSI benefits are begun. 2. When the State agency learns that SSI has made a payment to a refugee for the same month as the...
Page 181 - Massachusetts 23 Michigan 24 Minnesota 25 Mississippi 26 Missouri 27 Montana 28 Nebraska 29 Nevada 30 New Hampshire 31 New Jersey 32 New Mexico 33 New York 34 North Carolina 35 North Dakota 36 Ohio 37 Oklahoma 38...
Page 60 - Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), or...