More than a million Americans will not be able to receive benefits designed to help them stay afloat during a pandemic coronavirus — due to the fact that they are the spouses of immigrants who do not have social security numbers.
In the framework of the CARES act, individuals earning up to $75 million, will receive additional payments of $1,200 per month, and $500 for each child under 17 under their care.
However, families who file a tax return using an Individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN) — an outstanding workers without Social security numbers — will not qualify for benefits. Thus, even if you have the right to receive payments, you will be deprived of them because of their marital status. Exceptions will be only those whose spouses serve in the U.S. army.
«It’s not fair in all respects <…>. — said the President of the human rights organization American Families United Randall emery in an interview with Los Angeles Times — the Government by definition should protect its citizens, and instead, the American authorities leave them in the lurch at the critical moment.»
«Now most of us want only to survive.»
According to the Migration Policy Institute, more than 1.2 million immigrants living in the United States without proper legal status, are married to U.S. citizens.
Among the citizens of Guadalupe Diaz. Women have a social security number, but it delivers a tax return jointly with her husband, which has an ITIN, and now risks losing much-needed during a pandemic for financial support.
«We — the Americans — emphasizes Diaz — but the feeling that we are being discriminated against solely because of one whom we love and whom we decide to spend a life.»
