Today in Chinatown, Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum promoted a comprehensive Guide to Public Benefits for Immigrants in New York City in Chinese. The free guide provides valuable information on federal, state and city benefits, and is the first of its kind to specifically example immigration status as part of benefit eligibility. The Public Advocate first released the guide in November 2008 in six languages,
including English, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Korean and Bengali. Low-income
working immigrants may need government help, for themselves or their families,
but may not know how to access the benefits they need. According to the NYC Dept of City Planning Report, The Newest New Yorkers, there are more
than 261,000 Chinese-born immigrants living in New York City
Public Advocate Gotbaum said:
“Immigrants bring our neighborhoods to life and make our culture the most
diverse in the country. We’re here today to promote a very important resource for
the Chinese community and let immigrants know that this guide offers crucial
information about federal, state, and city benefits. We have already gotten about 50,000 requests for guides—7,500 of those
for Chinese guides.
Read the full release.
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