Benefit Adequacy Among Elderly Social Security Retired-Worker Beneficiaries and the SSI Federal Benefit Rate - Text description for the bar chart "Distributional effects of four alternative screening scenarios"

Distributional effects of four alternative screening scenarios (in percent)
Screening scenario	Percent of those with family income above 100 percent of poverty line screened in	Percent of those with family income below 75 percent of poverty line screened out
Individual FBR screen	19.6	9.6
Unit FBR screen	11.3	7.9
Unit FBR plus income screen	1.8	9.7
Unit FBR plus income and asset screens	1.4	32.8
SOURCE: Authors' calculations based on November 1996 data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation.
NOTE: FBR = federal benefit rate.