Research, Statistics, & Policy Analysis
SSI Annual Statistical Report, 2008
(released September 2009)
Expanded Table of Contents
Federal Benefit Rates and Total Annual Payments
Table 1. Monthly federal SSI benefit rates, 1974–2009
Table 2. Total payments, by eligibility category and source of payment,
selected years, 1974–2008
Table 3. Total recipients, by age and source of payment, 2003–2008
Federally Administered Payments
Table 4. Recipients, by age, December 1974–2008
Table 5. By type of payment, sex, eligibility category, and age, December 2008
Table 6. Recipients, by selected characteristics, eligibility category, and age,
December 2008
Table 7. Recipients, by type of representative payee, eligibility category, and age, December 2008
Table 8. Recipients, by type of income, eligibility category, and age, December 2008
Table 9. Recipients, by receipt of Social Security, type of income, eligibility category,
and age, December 2008
Table 10. Recipients, by state or other area, eligibility category, and age,
December 2008
Table 11. Average monthly payment, by state or other area, eligibility category, and age, December 2008
Table 12. Recipients and their average income, by type of income and marital status, December 2008
Table 13. Recipients as a percentage of resident population, by state,
December 2008
Table 14. Foreign-born recipients, by region, country of origin, eligibility category,
and age, December 2008
Recipients of Social Security, SSI, or Both
Table 15. Persons aged 18–64 receiving benefits on the basis of disability and their total and average monthly payments, by type of beneficiary, December 1996–2008
Table 16. Persons aged 18–64 receiving both Social Security and SSI on the basis of disability and their average monthly Social Security benefit and SSI payment, by state or other area and type of beneficiary, December 2008
Children Under Age 18
Table 17. Recipients and average monthly payment, by SSA administrative region and state or other area, December 2008
Table 18. Percentage distribution of recipients, by monthly payment, December 2008
Table 19. Recipients, by selected characteristics, December 2008
Table 20. Recipients, by diagnostic group and age, December 2008
Table 21. Recipients, by diagnostic group and sex, December 2008
Table 22. Adult recipients who first became eligible for SSI before age 18, by year of first eligibility and age in December 2008
Table 23. Recipients and average monthly amount of child's income,
by type of income, December 2008
Table 24. Recipients, by number of parents in the household, December 2008
Table 25. Recipients with one parent in the household, by type and monthly amount
of parental income, December 2008
Table 26. Recipients with two parents in the household, by type and monthly amount
of parental income, December 2008
Table 27. Recipients with one or more parents who have income and average
monthly amount of parental income, by type of income, December 2008
Table 28. Recipients subject to deeming, by factors affecting parental deemed income, December 2008
Noncitizens
Table 29. Recipients, by eligibility category, December 1982–2008
Table 30. Recipients, by selected characteristics and citizenship status,
December 2008
Table 31. Recipients, by state or other area, eligibility category, and age,
December 2008
Table 32. Recipients, by region and country of origin, eligibility category, and age, December 2008
Table 33. Recipients, by number of months between date of U.S. residency and date
of SSI application, eligibility category, and age, December 2008
Recipients Under Age 65
Table 34. Recipients, by diagnostic group, 2000–2008
Table 35. Recipients, by diagnostic group and age, December 2008
Table 36. Recipients, by diagnostic group, age, and sex, December 2008
Table 37. Recipients with a representative payee, by diagnostic group and age,
December 2008
Table 38. Percentage distribution of recipients by diagnostic group, by state or other area, December 2008
Table 39. Average monthly payment, by state or other area and diagnostic group,
December 2008
Recipients Who Work
Table 40. Blind and disabled recipients who work, selected months 1976–2008
Table 41. Blind and disabled recipients who work, by state or other area,
December 2008
Table 42. Percentage distribution of all blind and disabled recipients and those
who work aged 18–64, by diagnostic group, December 2008
Table 43. All blind and disabled recipients, those who work, and section 1619(b) participants aged 18–64, by age, December 2008
Table 44. Blind and disabled recipients in December 2007, by program status and
earnings in December 2008
Table 45. Blind and disabled recipients who work, by state or other area,
December 2008
Table 46. Blind and disabled recipients who work and their average earnings,
by selected characteristics, December 2008
Table 47. Number of section 1619 participants and percentage change from prior
period, selected months 1982–2008
Table 48. Ranking of state or other area, by section 1619 participants as a
percentage of all blind and disabled recipients in state aged 18–64,
December 2008
Table 49. Section 1619(a) participants and their average earnings,
by state or other area, selected months, 2007–2008
Table 50. Section 1619(b) participants and their average earnings,
by state or other area, selected months, 2007–2008
Table 51. Section 1619 participants and their average earnings,
by selected characteristics, December 2008
Table 52. Percentage distribution of section 1619 participants aged 18–64,
by diagnostic group, December 2008
Table 53. Recipients benefiting from specified work incentives, by state or
other area and provision, December 2008
Table 54. Recipients benefiting from specified work incentives, by selected
characteristics and provision, December 2008
Table 55. Percentage distribution of recipients benefiting from specified work
incentives, by diagnostic group and provision, December 2008
Table 56. Percentage distribution of recipients with income excluded under
specified work incentives, by amount excluded and provision, December 2008
Applications
Table 57. All applications, by age of applicant, 1973–2008
Table 58. Applications for children under age 18, by selected characteristics,
2000–2008
Table 59. Applications for adults aged 18–64, by selected characteristics, 2000–2008
Table 60. Applications for adults aged 65 or older, by selected characteristics,
2000–2008
Table 61. All applications, by state or other area and age of applicant, 2008
Table 62. All applicants, by year of first application and age, 1973–2008
Awards
Table 63. All awards, by age of awardee, 1974–2008
Table 64. Awards for children under age 18, by selected characteristics,
2000–2008
Table 65. Awards for adults aged 18–64, by selected characteristics, 2000–2008
Table 66. Awards for adults aged 65 or older, by selected characteristics,
2000–2008
Table 67. All awards, by state or other area and age of awardee, 2008
Table 68. All persons awarded SSI, by year of first award and age, 1974–2008
Outcomes of Applications for Disability Benefits
Notes
Table 69. Outcomes at all adjudicative levels, by age and year of application,
1992–2007
Table 70. Medical decisions at the initial adjudicative level, by age, year of
application, and program, 1992–2007
Table 71. Medical decisions at the reconsideration level, by age, year of application,
and program, 1992–2007
Table 72. Medical decisions at the hearing level or above, by age, year of application,
and program, 1992–2007
Table 73. Percentage distribution of final medical allowances, by age, year of
application, and reason for allowance, 1992–2007
Table 74. Percentage distribution of final medical denials, by age, year of application,
and reason for denial, 1992–2007
Suspensions and Terminations
Table 75. Suspensions, by age of recipient and reason for suspension,
2000–2008
Table 76. Recipients suspended, by age and reason for suspension, 2000–2008
Table 77. Recipients terminated, by age and reason for termination, 2006–2008
