By Amienata Fatajo

This brief explores which groups are most impacted by public benefit restrictions, how benefit restrictions influence behavior, and why reduced access to food and health care creates both short- and long-term health inequities. Immigrants are one of the major groups who are impacted by those restrictions. Fear of deportation and administrative burdens, as well as eligibility restrictions, limit access to food and health care. These restrictions shape behavior, cause people to avoid essential services for which they are eligible and ultimately worsen public health outcomes and inequities across communities.

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