Congressional Statistics
Social Security
for December 2004
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 2004
Number of beneficiaries Retired Congressional district North Carolina 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 All areas
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Total monthly benefits (thousands of dollars) Spouses c 58,287 5,251 3,555 5,334 3,128 5,297 4,831 5,340 3,204 3,774 3,897 8,297 2,767 3,612 2,721,657 Children d 128,602 14,790 10,433 9,271 6,384 8,656 8,217 12,884 10,679 7,329 10,515 10,057 9,712 9,675 3,986,319 All beneficiaries 1,252,432 101,245 77,966 87,600 71,102 106,863 112,146 106,396 84,762 89,866 108,607 133,030 83,172 89,676 41,574,348 Retired workers 852,024 61,992 49,101 58,782 50,985 75,458 82,454 67,228 55,421 64,770 75,357 93,211 56,018 61,245 28,601,332 Widow(er)s b 108,749 10,084 7,084 8,361 5,835 9,156 8,590 9,671 7,061 7,833 8,371 12,198 6,936 7,568 4,329,336
Total 1,468,728 133,597 98,481 106,353 75,651 123,830 122,941 129,959 101,374 94,325 125,983 156,349 97,210 102,675 47,687,693
workers a 912,634 73,339 56,177 65,444 49,812 81,264 84,325 74,096 59,990 62,835 80,871 101,211 59,415 63,855 29,952,474
Disabled workers Widow(er)s b 237,925 26,182 18,918 15,949 10,115 17,680 16,150 25,230 18,797 12,249 20,643 22,279 17,050 16,683 6,198,271 131,280 14,035 9,398 10,355 6,212 10,933 9,418 12,409 8,704 8,138 10,057 14,505 8,266 8,850 4,828,972
Number of beneficiaries aged 65 or older 977,811 82,283 60,984 71,216 52,846 86,382 88,142 79,934 63,913 66,746 83,724 110,307 62,886 68,448 33,696,001
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, 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 2004
Number of recipients Congressional district North Carolina 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 All areas b Total 195,805 33,313 17,160 13,085 7,783 11,671 8,263 24,128 15,446 7,331 12,506 15,343 15,918 13,858 6,987,845 Aged 26,566 4,911 2,510 1,892 1,052 1,974 1,050 3,022 1,686 990 1,592 2,472 1,555 1,860 1,211,167 Blind 1,886 275 126 130 101 136 82 169 147 69 127 148 193 183 75,924 Disabled 167,353 28,127 14,524 11,063 6,630 9,561 7,131 20,937 13,613 6,272 10,787 12,723 14,170 11,815 5,700,754 Total 78,093 12,919 6,814 4,972 3,173 4,456 3,432 9,543 6,290 3,096 4,990 5,888 6,919 5,597 3,224,059 Total monthly payments (thousands of dollars) Aged 5,047 841 440 326 274 352 190 522 343 265 301 452 335 400 426,925 Blind 712 99 49 44 39 49 31 62 56 26 52 57 73 68 35,916 Disabled 72,333 11,978 6,324 4,602 2,858 4,054 3,209 8,957 5,890 2,804 4,636 5,379 6,510 5,128 2,761,217 Number of recipients With OASDI a 82,310 14,884 7,702 5,537 2,844 5,479 3,386 10,483 5,780 2,494 5,202 7,211 5,558 5,750 2,441,374 Aged 65 or older 49,958 9,338 4,718 3,301 1,886 3,569 1,853 6,091 3,255 1,650 2,931 4,561 3,197 3,608 1,977,610
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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