Congressional Statistics
Social Security
for December 2003
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 monthly benefit amount, December 2003
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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Monthly benefit amount (thousands of dollars) Wives and husbands 59,259 5,330 3,658 5,582 3,182 5,478 4,988 5,417 3,262 3,701 3,930 8,358 2,865 3,508 2,772,576 Children 126,869 14,532 10,656 9,418 6,574 8,780 8,351 12,857 10,289 7,062 10,403 9,740 9,553 8,654 3,960,823 All beneficiaries 1,176,677 94,682 74,119 83,910 67,019 104,407 107,482 99,291 78,061 83,735 102,267 123,894 79,343 78,462 39,541,474 Retired workers 800,777 57,855 46,409 56,212 47,861 73,737 79,153 62,465 51,109 60,311 71,011 86,722 53,956 53,971 27,230,628 Widow(er)s
b
Total 1,436,151 130,336 97,612 106,279 74,643 125,862 122,696 126,697 96,970 91,485 123,591 151,120 95,755 93,105 47,038,391
workers
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Disabled b workers Widow(er)s 226,046 24,997 18,524 15,450 9,863 17,491 15,526 24,193 17,434 11,621 19,763 20,782 15,980 14,422 5,873,673 132,849 14,222 9,556 10,787 6,292 11,589 9,768 12,458 8,622 8,220 10,204 14,650 8,296 8,185 4,899,704
Number of OASDI beneficiaries aged 65 or older 961,406 80,624 60,265 71,450 52,172 88,268 88,415 78,114 61,523 65,139 82,570 107,357 62,776 62,733 33,433,599
891,128 71,255 55,218 65,042 48,732 82,524 84,063 71,772 57,363 60,881 79,291 97,590 59,061 58,336 29,531,615
105,737 9,835 6,912 8,315 5,645 9,255 8,549 9,306 6,763 7,598 8,147 11,875 6,773 6,757 4,238,982
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. c. Includes beneficiaries in the 50 states, District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands.
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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 monthly payment amount, December 2003
Number of recipients Congressional district North Carolina 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 All areas
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Monthly payment amount (thousands of dollars) Disabled 164,333 27,719 14,823 11,058 6,549 10,153 7,349 20,846 12,804 6,322 10,824 12,360 13,237 10,289 5,592,504 Total 73,607 12,379 6,636 4,813 3,047 4,444 3,184 9,358 5,818 3,033 4,739 5,500 6,047 4,602 3,077,818 Aged 5,231 874 458 352 260 384 209 556 334 268 322 456 361 390 424,774 Blind 723 96 62 49 37 58 32 70 61 25 50 58 65 54 35,646 Disabled 67,652 11,408 6,115 4,411 2,749 4,001 2,943 8,731 5,422 2,738 4,365 4,985 5,620 4,158 2,617,398
Number of recipients With OASDI
a
Total 194,551 33,156 17,660 13,296 7,746 12,490 8,600 24,314 14,645 7,441 12,731 15,106 15,082 12,284 6,902,364
Aged 28,261 5,167 2,674 2,094 1,092 2,183 1,157 3,287 1,679 1,050 1,777 2,590 1,668 1,843 1,232,778
Blind 1,957 270 163 144 105 154 94 181 162 69 130 156 177 152 77,082
Aged 65 or older 51,878 9,643 4,968 3,523 1,984 3,941 2,009 6,396 3,191 1,759 3,210 4,652 3,234 3,368 1,989,737
83,432 15,165 8,037 5,741 2,969 5,978 3,544 10,723 5,567 2,595 5,416 7,156 5,401 5,140 2,421,362
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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