claim: "half of all immigrant households receive benefits from our social welfare system."
author: david perdue
evidence_1: sep 10, 2015 ... in the four top immigrant-receiving states, use of welfare by immigrant ...  furthermore, immigrants often receive benefits on behalf of their ... total federal  expenditures for the programs examined in this study amounted to nearly half a  .... this means that a household is counted as using welfare if any one of ...
evidence_2: jan 29, 2018 ... we've previously rated mostly true the claim that "half of all immigrant  households receive benefits from our social welfare system," also ...
evidence_3: dec 2, 2018 ... immigrant advocacy groups are right to worry that the high welfare use of ... do  not include all the benefits non-citizens receive on behalf of their ... of non- citizens in census bureau data, roughly half are in the country illegally.
evidence_4: dec 3, 2018 ... the center for immigration studies said in its report that the ... use of the welfare  system, often receiving benefits on behalf of u.s.-born children ... at the center,  said that in census data, about half of those are in the ... in 2014, 63 percent of  households headed by a non-citizen reported .... all rights reserved.
evidence_5: dec 4, 2018 ... according to a study from the center for immigration studies, which ... of non- citizen-headed households use one or more welfare programs, ... as a result, half  of all immigrant households receive benefits from our social ...