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WHY IMMIGRANTS COME TO THE USA. JUST FACTS SIMPLY READ THE N.B.E.R. REVIEW Immigrants Enjoy Better Social Security Returns than U.S. Natives 09/01/1998 Summary of Working Paper 6478 Featured in print Digest Social Security is often billed as an insurance plan for retirement that bases the benefits paid out squarely on the contributions paid in. But there is also an element of redistribution within the system. The formula is meant to help people with low lifetime earnings, but its effects can be haphazard. A recent NBER Working Paper aims to inform policymakers about one such transfer, that between U.S. and foreign born participants. For their first two decades of work in the United States, immigrants earning $10,000 or more per year receive 70 to 80 percent of the Social Security benefits paid for a full work life by native born Americans. THE FACTS ARE DIFFERENTBTHAN MEDIA IS REPORTING BECAUSE MEDIA HAS SOCIALIST AGENDA. national bureau of economic research gov