Benefit Adequacy Among Elderly Social Security Retired-Worker Beneficiaries and the SSI Federal Benefit Rate - Text description for the bar chart "Percent of elderly retired-worker beneficiaries with Social Security benefits below the unit FBR in each eligibility and participation status category with family income at or below 75 percent and 100 percent of the poverty threshold"

Percent of elderly retired-worker beneficiaries with Social Security benefits below the unit FBR in each eligibility and participation status category with family income at or below 75 percent and 100 percent of the poverty threshold
SSI Status	At or below 75 percent	At or below 100 percent
Eligible participant	15.2	72.2
Eligible nonparticipant	48.9	68.0
Not eligible because of both income and assets	0.5	5.6
Not eligible because of income only	0.0	12.8
Not eligible because of assets only	42.1	70.1
SOURCE: Authors' calculations based on November 1996 data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation.
NOTE: FBR = federal benefit rate; SSI = Supplemental Security Income.