Congressional Statistics
Social Security
for December 2006
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 2006
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 1,550,340 135,150 105,267 113,928 83,517 131,462 131,086 137,307 105,721 103,016 133,663 162,450 100,521 107,252 49,122,624 workers a 970,774 74,861 60,915 71,205 55,452 86,346 90,266 80,088 62,466 68,961 86,146 106,227 61,142 66,699 30,976,145 Disabled b workers Widow(er)s 261,068 27,758 20,853 17,680 11,426 19,785 17,906 26,799 20,505 13,945 22,938 24,107 18,822 18,544 6,806,918 128,785 13,258 9,140 10,210 6,413 10,796 9,468 12,207 8,504 8,257 9,896 14,101 7,942 8,593 4,666,962 Spouses c 57,280 4,832 3,466 5,298 3,269 5,110 4,759 5,272 3,279 3,958 3,880 7,929 2,726 3,502 2,632,069 Children d 132,433 14,441 10,893 9,535 6,957 9,425 8,687 12,941 10,967 7,895 10,803 10,086 9,889 9,914 4,040,530 Total monthly benefits (thousands of dollars) All beneficiaries 1,459,551 113,349 92,815 103,930 86,667 125,071 131,220 125,062 96,970 107,742 126,946 152,335 94,317 103,128 46,938,032 Retired workers 997,679 69,716 58,974 70,468 62,543 88,403 96,760 80,456 63,243 77,920 88,291 107,572 63,096 70,239 32,351,857 Widow(er)s
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Number of beneficiaries aged 65 or older 1,027,559 82,632 65,021 76,145 58,211 90,977 93,495 85,070 66,041 72,351 88,226 114,416 64,285 70,689 34,468,217
117,798 10,484 7,673 9,090 6,708 9,983 9,469 10,541 7,548 8,736 9,066 13,056 7,362 8,081 4,576,981
SOURCE: Social Security Administration, Master Beneficiary Record, 100 percent data. a. Includes 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 2006
Number of recipients Congressional district North Carolina 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 All areas b Total 202,478 32,838 17,683 13,413 8,477 12,004 8,822 24,068 16,446 8,223 13,101 15,488 17,245 14,670 7,235,583 Aged 24,323 4,267 2,279 1,740 1,050 1,795 999 2,648 1,621 1,005 1,431 2,198 1,515 1,775 1,211,681 Blind 1,774 243 138 130 96 126 71 164 133 71 119 129 192 162 73,418 Disabled 176,381 28,328 15,266 11,543 7,331 10,083 7,752 21,256 14,692 7,147 11,551 13,161 15,538 12,733 5,950,484 Total 85,799 13,583 7,408 5,437 3,789 4,797 3,794 10,072 7,188 3,699 5,649 6,234 7,756 6,387 3,499,569 Total monthly payments (thousands of dollars) Aged 4,978 775 427 321 290 340 199 488 358 304 292 428 354 397 453,537 Blind 701 98 56 48 34 46 28 60 53 32 51 51 77 60 36,296 Disabled 80,120 12,710 6,923 5,067 3,464 4,410 3,567 9,523 6,775 3,363 5,305 5,754 7,324 5,929 3,009,734 Number of recipients With OASDI a 81,851 14,312 7,515 5,415 2,958 5,470 3,433 10,015 5,948 2,654 5,245 7,203 5,822 5,861 2,528,975 Aged 65 or older 47,464 8,593 4,497 3,096 1,895 3,339 1,796 5,625 3,257 1,665 2,769 4,223 3,180 3,529 2,004,476
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.
For questions pertaining to the data, please call Cherice Jefferies at (410) 965-5520 or e-mail cong.stats@ssa.gov.
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2 Congressional Statistics for December 2006, North Carolina