The high court ruled it's OK to exclude U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico from the Supplemental Security Income program.
As CBS2's Dick Brennan reports, this case involved the Supplemental Security Income program established in the '70s to provide a minimum income for the neediest adults who are over 65, blind or disabled. The high court said Thursday in an 8-1 ruling it's OK to exclude U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico from the program.Morales came from Puerto Rico 28 years ago but understands things are tough right now for many people back on the island.
But Justice Sonia Sotomayor, whose parents are from Puerto Rico, wrote in the lone dissent,"Denying benefits to hundreds of thousands of eligible Puerto Rico residents because they do not pay enough in taxes is utterly irrational. There is no... basis for Congress to treat needy citizens living anywhere in the United States so differently from others.""It's unfair. We part of the United States, we should get all the benefits the United States get," one man said.
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