The average age of disabled-worker beneficiaries in current-payment status declined between , when DI benefits first became available to persons younger than age 50, and In , the average age of a disabled worker was The rapid drop in average age in the following years reflects a growing number of awards to workers under By , the average age fell to a low of By contrast, the average age of retired workers has changed little over time, rising from Eleven percent of the women received survivor benefits.
Among retired and disabled workers who collected benefits based on their own work records, men received a higher average monthly benefit than did women. For those with benefits based on another person's work record spouses and survivors , women generally had higher average benefits.
The proportion of women among retired-worker beneficiaries quadrupled between and The proportion of women among disabled-worker beneficiaries more than doubled between , when DI benefits first became payable, and About 2. The Supplemental Security Income SSI program provides income support to needy persons aged 65 or older, blind or disabled adults, and blind or disabled children.
Eligibility requirements and federal payment standards are nationally uniform. Payments under SSI began in January , with 3. By December , this number had risen to nearly 4 million and remained at about that level until the mid s, then rose steadily, reaching nearly 6 million in and 7 million by the end of As of December , the number of recipients was about 8.
Of this total, 4. A total of 8. The majority received federal SSI only. States have the option of supplementing the federal benefit rate and are required to do so if that rate is less than the income the recipient would have had under the former state program.
Fourteen percent of SSI recipients received benefits on the basis of age and the rest qualified on the basis of disability. Twenty-nine percent of the recipients were aged 65 or older. The overall long-term growth of the SSI program occurred because of an increase in the number of disabled recipients, most of whom are under age Other types of unearned income, such as income from assets, were reported most frequently among those under age 18 Earned income was most prevalent 4.
As of December of the program's first year, , 70, blind and disabled children were receiving SSI. That number increased to about , in , declined to about , in , and increased to 1,, in The relatively high average payment to children compared with payments made to blind and disabled adults is due in part to a limited amount of other countable income.
The spike in average monthly benefits in is due to retroactive payments resulting from the Sullivan v. Zebley decision. About Most Benefits were paid to About 1.
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