Studies from Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Describe New Findings in Insurance (The Public Charge Rule and Program Participation Among Us Citizens): Insurance

2025 JAN 16 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A new study on Insurance is now available. According to news reporting out of Chicago, Illinois, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Use of public assistance by noncitizens is controversial. Before 2018, institutionalization and receipt of cash benefits were considered as evidence of whether immigrants were likely to become a ‘public charge’ and, therefore, ineligible for citizenship.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, “But a new rule-proposed in 2018 and finalized in 2020-also made participation in SNAP/Food Stamps and Medicaid relevant as evidence. We examine whether participation in SNAP/Food Stamps and Medicaid among U.S.-born children-whose own eligibility for program participation should be unaffected by the new rule-has changed, based on the citizenship status of their parents. We find evidence that, after the 2018 proposal, U.S.-born children with noncitizen parents are less likely than the children of U.S.-born parents to participate in these programs.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “We discuss the literature on ‘chilling effects’ and on the impact of safety net programs on children’s long-term outcomes.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: The Public Charge Rule and Program Participation Among Us Citizens. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2024;711(1):170-198. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science can be contacted at: Sage Publications Inc, 2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Kristin F. Butcher, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Microecon Res, Chicago, IL 60604, United States. Additional authors for this research include Luojia Hu and Ryan Perry.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/00027162241293910. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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