Questions for the Proposed DHS Public Charge Rule

DHS is on the lookout for suggestions from the general public. professionals, companies/organizations, and authorities on its proposed public cost rule. Full textual content to the rule is obtainable right here. Please notice that this rule shouldn’t be set to publish till August 23, 2021 which suggests it’s topic to vary earlier than then.

Now we have created a consolidated listing of the questions posed by DHS as follows:

Questions for the Public 

1. What normal ought to DHS use to find out whether or not to train its discretion and authorize a noncitizen inadmissible solely beneath the general public cost floor to submit a public cost bond?
2. Ought to DHS set up a minimal bond quantity? If sure, how ought to DHS set up that minimal bond quantity and the way ought to DHS alter that minimal bond quantity over time?
3. What components ought to DHS contemplate in establishing a bond quantity for a specific inadmissible noncitizen?
4. Below what circumstances ought to DHS contemplate a public cost bond breached?
5. Below what circumstances ought to DHS contemplate a public cost bond cancelled? 

Questions for State, Territorial, Native, and Tribal Profit Granting Companies and Nonprofit Organizations 

1. What prices, if any, has your company or group incurred with a view to implement adjustments in public cost coverage, corresponding to revising enrollment procedures and public-facing supplies? Please present related information.
2. What prices, if any, has your company or group incurred on account of discount in enrollment, or disenrollment in public advantages packages usually? Please present related information.
3. What prices, if any, has your company or group incurred on account of disenrollment or discount in enrollment in public advantages packages brought on by the general public cost floor of inadmissibility, the 1999 Interim Discipline Steerage, or the vacated 2019 Closing Rule? Please present related information.
4. With respect to the particular forms of public advantages overseen by your company, beneath what circumstances is the receipt of such advantages related, if in any respect, to assessing whether or not or not a person is probably going at any time to turn into a public cost?
5. What, if any, particular considerations does your company or group have about how DHS applies the general public cost floor of inadmissibility and the way ought to DHS handle these considerations?
6. What information does your company or group have that may be shared to show any potential influence of the general public cost floor of inadmissibility, the 1999 Interim Discipline Steerage, or the vacated 2019 Closing Rule on purposes for or disenrollment from public advantages by people who’re eligible for such advantages?
7. What data, information, or research does your company or group have that might be shared that may assist DHS establish components or patterns of profit use (e.g., period, frequency, or extent of advantages use) that counsel whether or not and to what extent people can be doubtless to make use of public advantages sooner or later?
8. How ought to DHS cut back the chance that people who’re eligible for public advantages overseen by your company would determine to forgo the receipt of these advantages out of concern that receipt of such advantages will make them (or a member of the family or family member) inadmissible on public cost grounds, even when receipt of such a profit wouldn’t be thought of by DHS in a public cost willpower, or wouldn’t be a decisive think about a public cost inadmissibility willpower?