 | Glossary: Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI) | |
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A contract signed by the sponsor that shows that the immigrant applying for a green card is not likely to become dependent on the government for cash welfare or long-term care (nursing homes). There are two types of Affidavits of Support: Old (Traditional) and New (Enforceable). |
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The Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants considers individuals who are 65 years or older as aged.
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Non-citizens who, while in the United States, are granted permission to remain because of well-founded fear of persecution in their home country.
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A trained expert who can help you understand or apply for benefit programs. Their goal is to help you avoid financial complications while developing a sustainable plan for the future. To find a benefits planner in California, use the DB101 Benefits Planner Directory. |
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Blindness in Social Security disability programs is "statutory blindness," which means:
- You have a central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in your better eye, even while you are wearing a correcting contact lens or glasses in that eye; or
- You have a limitation in the field of vision of your better eye, so that:
- You have a contraction of peripheral visual fields to 10 degrees from the point of fixation, or
- The widest diameter of your visual field subtends an angle no greater than 20 degrees, or
- You have a contraction of peripheral visual fields to 20 percent or less visual field efficiency.
If you have a visual impairment that is not "blindness" as defined above, but your reduced vision (alone or in combination with other disabilities) prevents you from working, you may still be eligible for SSI benefits.
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Living and intending to stay in California. Individuals living in a jail, prison, VA hospital, or other public institution are ineligible for benefits.
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Assuming they meet all other eligibility criteria, U.S. citizens and Qualified Aliens (inlcuding those who meet I-551 or I-94 status) are eligible for both Social Security and state public benefits programs. Legal residents who don't have I-551 or I-94 status may be eligible for some state programs, but not for Social Security programs. This could include Legal Permanent Residents (LPRs), refugees, asylees, conditional entrants, people certified as victims of trafficking, certain people whose immigration status is pending, people under Temporary Protected or Family Unity Beneficiary Status, Lawful Temporary Residents, applicants for asylum, people who have been granted or are applying for withholding of removal, and all other people with a lawfully residing immigrant status.
People who are undocumented or non-immigrants are not eligible for any of these programs.
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Assuming they meet all other eligibility criteria, U.S. citizens and Qualified Aliens (inlcuding those who meet I-551 or I-94 status) are eligible for both Social Security and California public benefits programs. Legal residents who don't have I-551 or I-94 status may be eligible for some California programs, but not for Social Security programs. This could include Legal Permanent Residents (LPRs), refugees, asylees, conditional entrants, people certified as victims of trafficking, certain people whose immigration status is pending, people under Temporary Protected or Family Unity Beneficiary Status, Lawful Temporary Residents, applicants for asylum, people who have been granted or are applying for withholding of removal, and all other people with a lawfully residing immigrant status.
People who are undocumented or non-immigrants are not eligible for any of these programs.
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The federal government pays benefits planners in communities around the country to help people think ahead about work incentives and benefits issues. CWIC'S are benefits planners who are trained by the Social Security Administration to assist beneficiaries with programs including Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) in addition to other related programs.
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The amount of another person’s income – spouse, sponsor, sponsor’s spouse, parent – that is considered to belong to the individual regardless of whether the person receives this money. |
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The inability to engage in any Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA) due to any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or last for a continuous period of at least 12 months. A person must not only be unable to do his/her previous work but cannot, considering age, education, and work experience, engage in any other kind of SGA which exists in the national economy. It doesn't mattter whether such work exists in the immediate area, or whether a specific job vacancy exists, or whether the worker would be hired if he/she applied for work. The worker’s impairment(s) must be the primary reason for his/her inability to engage in SGA.
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Salaries, wages, tips, professional fees and other amounts received as pay for physical or mental work actually performed. Funds received from any other source are not included. (Contrast unearned income.) |
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A federally funded program that helps people with low-income buy food.
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A county program that provides relief to those who are unable to support themselves by their own means, or by friends or relatives, other public funds, or other assistance programs.
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A deeming exception for CAPI applicants whose sponsor signed an Old Affidavit of Support. An individual is considered to be indigent if he/she receives less than the federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefit amount - $674 per month in 2010 for an individual ($1,011 for a couple). |
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Individuals living within the U.S. with a green card.
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Cash or other property which can be converted to cash within 20 days, excluding non-work days. Liquid assets include: checking and savings accounts, stocks, bonds, mutual fund shares, promissory notes, mortgages, and life insurance policies.
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Subject to an Order of Supervision On whose behalf an immediate relative petition has been approved and who are entitled to voluntary departure Who have properly filed an application for an adjustment to lawful permanent resident status Granted a stay of deportation Granted voluntary departure and who are awaiting issuance of a visa In deferred action status Who entered and have continually resided in the United States since before January 1, 1972
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Evidence that would establish a fact if uncontested.
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Individual who is:
- Lawful permanent resident,
- Asylee,
- Refugee,
- Person paroled in the United States for at least 1 year,
- Person who have been granted withholding of deportation or removal,
- Person granted conditional entry,
- Cuban or Haitian entrant, or
- Battered spouse, battered child, or parent of a child who is battered.
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Non-citizens who, while outside the U.S. and their home country, were granted permission to enter and live in the U.S. because they had a well-founded fear of persecution in their home country.
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The following items do not count as resources:
The home, and any adjoining land Household goods and personal effects that have a total value of $2,000 or less One car if it is: necessary for employment, or necessary fro medical treatment, or modified for use by a disabled person, or it provides necessary transportation to perform essential daily activities, or has a current market value less than $4500 Property of a trade or business that is essential for self-support Non-business property which is essential to self-support Resources of a blind or disabled individual necessary to fulfill an approved PASS Certain stocks held by Alaskan natives Life insurance, if the total face value of all policies on one person do not exceed $1500. Otherwise, the cash surrenders values of life insurance policies will count as a resource Restricted allotted Native American lands Payments or benefits paid under other Federal statutes Disaster relief assistance Burial space of any value, and burial funds up to $1500 Title XVI (SSI) or Title II (SSDI) retroactive payments for 6 months Housing assistance Nine months of payments received as compensation for expenses or losses suffered as a result of a crime Nine months of reallocation assistance
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A person who, by signing an affidavit of support, agrees to support an immigrant as a condition of the immigrant’s admission for permanent residence in the U.S. |
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The act of legally sponsoring an immigrant to enter the U.S.
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Funds received from sources for which no paid work activity is performed.
Disability benefits such as SSDI, SSI, short term disability insurance, and long term disability insurance; VA benefits; Workers' Compensation; income from a trust or investment; spousal support; dividends, profits, or funds received from any source other than work are all usually considered unearned income.
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An individual who is a victim of sex trafficking; or, a victim of the forced or fraudulent recruitment, harboring, transport, or provision of a person for labor or services that subject the person to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.
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An individual who has endured assaultive or coercive behavior that includes: physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, economic control, isolation, stalking, and threats.
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