Congressional Statistics
Social Security
for December 2007
North Carolina
Old-Age (retirement), Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI)—popularly referred to as Social Security—provides monthly benefits to workers and their families when earnings stop or are reduced because the worker retires, dies, or becomes disabled. The amount of benefits received is based on the worker’s level of earnings in employment or self-employment covered by the Social Security program.
Table 1. Number of OASDI beneficiaries with benefits in current-payment status and total monthly benefits, December 2007
Number of beneficiaries Retired Congressional district North Carolina 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 All areas e Total 1,587,350 136,708 110,040 117,117 88,387 133,924 138,610 141,737 106,925 105,839 135,390 164,526 102,385 105,762 49,864,838 workers a 998,365 76,038 63,789 73,937 58,935 88,488 95,230 83,537 63,425 71,069 87,351 108,287 62,207 66,072 31,527,728 Disabled b workers Widow(er)s 270,824 28,564 22,284 18,434 12,197 20,336 19,469 27,481 21,129 14,392 23,590 24,729 19,614 18,605 7,098,723 128,304 13,096 9,231 10,255 6,584 10,648 9,832 12,253 8,379 8,287 9,746 13,910 7,878 8,205 4,602,812 Spouses c 56,205 4,660 3,460 5,187 3,368 4,966 4,828 5,250 3,144 3,951 3,816 7,653 2,705 3,217 2,584,884 Children d 133,652 14,350 11,276 9,304 7,303 9,486 9,251 13,216 10,848 8,140 10,887 9,947 9,981 9,663 4,050,691 Total monthly benefits (thousands of dollars) All beneficiaries 1,548,633 118,816 100,728 111,263 95,252 132,025 143,462 133,902 101,711 114,387 133,058 159,898 99,108 105,021 49,218,145 Retired workers 1,062,514 73,323 64,109 75,984 69,003 93,803 105,731 87,013 66,419 82,933 92,708 113,469 66,303 71,717 34,004,494 Widow(er)s
b
Number of beneficiaries aged 65 or older 1,058,491 84,044 68,247 78,923 62,093 93,408 99,023 88,626 67,209 74,685 90,108 116,732 65,451 69,942 35,119,015
121,588 10,692 8,037 9,509 7,180 10,215 10,132 10,995 7,728 9,054 9,242 13,329 7,532 7,942 4,657,266
SOURCE: Social Security Administration, Master Beneficiary Record, 100 percent data. a. Excludes special age-72 beneficiaries. b. Includes nondisabled widow(er)s, disabled widow(er)s, widowed mothers and fathers, and parents receiving payment on the record of a worker who is deceased. c. These beneficiaries receive payment on the record of a worker who is retired or disabled. d. These beneficiaries receive payment on the record of a worker who is retired, deceased, or disabled. e. Includes beneficiaries in the 50 states, District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and foreign countries.
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Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a federal cash assistance program that provides monthly payments to low-income aged, blind, or disabled persons in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Table 2. Number of recipients of federally administered SSI payments and total monthly payments, December 2007
Number of recipients Congressional district North Carolina 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 All areas b Total 205,506 32,786 18,497 13,235 8,808 12,087 9,979 24,424 16,348 8,419 13,320 15,620 17,659 14,324 7,359,525 Aged 23,358 3,996 2,165 1,609 1,055 1,714 1,027 2,485 1,562 1,060 1,352 2,099 1,486 1,748 1,204,512 Blind 1,744 256 139 111 89 121 89 159 124 64 127 128 178 159 71,727 Disabled 180,404 28,534 16,193 11,515 7,664 10,252 8,863 21,780 14,662 7,295 11,841 13,393 15,995 12,417 6,083,286 Total 92,969 14,317 8,508 5,620 4,107 5,128 4,687 10,818 7,875 3,930 6,269 6,761 8,464 6,486 3,735,792 Total monthly payments (thousands of dollars) Aged 4,992 749 418 310 305 337 221 473 364 329 283 438 358 407 465,272 Blind 706 102 60 42 34 43 36 60 51 25 57 59 71 66 36,571 Disabled 87,271 13,465 8,031 5,268 3,768 4,748 4,430 10,285 7,460 3,576 5,929 6,264 8,034 6,012 3,233,949 Number of recipients With OASDI
a
Aged 65 or older 46,591 8,375 4,370 2,914 1,954 3,200 1,922 5,506 3,179 1,732 2,732 4,107 3,187 3,413 2,016,588
81,241 14,047 7,575 5,246 3,009 5,342 3,776 9,959 5,764 2,674 5,292 7,019 5,865 5,673 2,568,637
SOURCE: Social Security Administration, Supplemental Security Record (Characteristic Extract Record format), 100 percent data. a. Includes persons who are receiving both SSI payments and Social Security benefits. b. Includes recipients in the 50 states, District of Columbia, and Northern Mariana Islands.
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