Congressional Statistics
Social Security
for December 2007
South 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 South Carolina 1 2 3 4 5 6 All areas e Total 822,377 139,355 125,071 151,561 137,410 137,937 131,043 49,864,838 workers a 507,282 90,420 82,976 94,638 84,112 82,723 72,413 31,527,728 Disabled b workers Widow(er)s 140,472 20,366 15,832 27,074 26,067 25,343 25,790 7,098,723 70,106 11,648 10,729 11,514 10,554 12,308 13,353 4,602,812 Spouses c 30,459 5,899 5,670 5,217 4,672 4,376 4,625 2,584,884 Children d 74,058 11,022 9,864 13,118 12,005 13,187 14,862 4,050,691 Total monthly benefits (thousands of dollars) All beneficiaries 801,117 138,118 128,859 149,401 138,085 132,432 114,222 49,218,145 Retired workers 540,542 96,764 92,993 101,318 92,732 86,900 69,834 34,004,494 Widow(er)s
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Number of beneficiaries aged 65 or older 538,249 94,982 87,955 98,940 89,364 87,562 79,446 35,119,015
65,886 11,548 10,980 10,932 10,537 11,015 10,874 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 South Carolina 1 2 3 4 5 6 All areas b Total 105,676 12,732 12,566 15,439 15,131 20,100 29,708 7,359,525 Aged 11,223 1,254 1,262 1,406 1,370 2,337 3,594 1,204,512 Blind 1,311 128 179 186 196 217 405 71,727 Disabled 93,142 11,350 11,125 13,847 13,565 17,546 25,709 6,083,286 Total 48,658 5,598 5,906 7,305 7,300 9,351 13,198 3,735,792 Total monthly payments (thousands of dollars) Aged 2,402 287 287 272 322 486 748 465,272 Blind 548 51 74 76 81 94 172 36,571 Disabled 45,708 5,260 5,545 6,957 6,898 8,770 12,278 3,233,949 Number of recipients With OASDI
a
Aged 65 or older 23,689 2,690 2,592 3,022 2,803 4,917 7,665 2,016,588
40,855 4,874 4,494 6,026 5,606 8,046 11,809 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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