Currently, any person who meets Federal eligibility guidelines can qualify for cash assistance in most states.

This is usually done if a person doesn't qualify for acquiring citizenship in any other way.

Under the legislation, a single person could qualify for a tax credit of up to $100.

A single person earning less than $20,800 or a family of four with an income below $42,400 should qualify.

Likewise, a person with limited mental capacity who has the ability to perform physical labor may not qualify as "disabled."

The state raised the amount of income a person or family could earn and still qualify for welfare by 15 percent in January 1990.

In many states, he said, a person can qualify for Medicaid only if he or she has assets of less than $1,800.

No person could be better qualified to tell me who had married his wife's sister.

A single person earning $60,000 or more a year won't qualify, for example.

A person with "a 10 percent chance of being shot, tortured or otherwise persecuted" might qualify, he added.