Family who lost federal benefits for living in Puerto Rico looks to Supreme Court
“According to the federal government, the U.S. is allowed to withhold SSI benefits from U.S. citizens depending on where they live.
The benefits are available to U.S. citizens living in the 50 states, the District of Columbia and the Northern Mariana Islands but not for those who live in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa.
‘We returned to Puerto Rico aware of what we were going to lose because of this system, aware of how difficult it would be for us to move forward economically. But at the end of the day, we were talking about my mother,’ Aponte said.”