https://www.spanishjournal.com/news/noticias-de-puerto-rico/2021/03/corte-suprema-sopesara-el-acceso-a-la-ayuda-estadounidense/
WASHINGTON - According to the AP, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether it is unconstitutional to exclude people living in Puerto Rico from Supplemental Security Income.
The justices said they would hear an appeal, filed for the first time by the Trump administration, of a lower court ruling that held that residents of the U.S. territory should have the same access to SSI benefits as older, disabled and blind Americans in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The administration argues that a pair of Supreme Court decisions 40 years ago already upheld the federal law that created SSI and excluded Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories from it. Congress was later added in the Mariana Islands.
In recent months, a federal judge ruled that residents of Puerto Rico should have access to other federal welfare benefits from which they have also been excluded. A federal judge in Guam said residents of that Pacific island should also be able to collect SSI.