U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Retirement and Disability Policy.

Benefit Adequacy Among Elderly Social Security Retired-Worker Beneficiaries and the SSI Federal Benefit Rate

 
by Kalman Rupp, Alexander Strand, Paul Davies, and Jim Sears
Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 67 No. 3, 2007
Nonpoor as a percent of all those screened in under four different screening scenarios
Screening scenario Percent
Individual FBR screen 80.1
Unit FBR screen 69.4
Unit FBR plus income screen 29.4
Unit FBR plus income and asset screens 29.3
SOURCE: Authors' calculations based on November 1996 data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation.
NOTE: FBR = federal benefit rate.

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