Estimated number of aged persons and dependent survivors receiving income Estimates of workmen’s compensa- from specified source, June 1951 1 tion payments, by State, 1949 and 1950 1 [In millions] [In thousands]

Persons aged 65 and over I Wldowsunder age65 - Paternal Percent- WC With 1 o$pe; change, Source of income or more 1950 from Total Men Women Total 2 children age 1949 under 18 3 age 18 Total . . . .._ . . . .._ -~%69,538%18,489 i-8.5 -I-I-I-I- ~_____ Totalinpopulationd __..._..__. .__.._. -__I 12.7 6.0 6.7 3.6 0.8 2. Q Alabama.. ____-. .___. 2,659 2,137 -19.6 -- -___ Arizona.. ._.-. . ..~-._. 8,218 7,500 -8.7 Employment. ______-.______-._. 3.9 AFkFGlSSS ____._....__._. 3,601 3,705 Earners.. _ _ _ .______..______-. __ 2.9 2.4 1.4 1.9 :: :: California.. .- _... -~ .._. 52,672 57,070 $3 Nivesofearners... ______-..- _____-._- ._.___ .Q .______-_ :i; ----.- !:” _,______Colorado. ._ _-. ..-. _ _. 3,154 3,558 713.1 Social insurance and related programs Connecticut-. _. .- ___ 0,438 9,X0 f. 7 Old-age and survivors insurance. ~. ___--_ ___. 3.0 1.7 1.3 .2 .2 .7 Delaware.. ..~ _._. 720 Railroad retirement.. _ _ _ .______..______.___ .3 .2 .1 (9 District of Columbia.. 2, % 2,360 z:: Federal employee retirement programs.. ~. .2 P),* P) ,4 I:] {:{ Florida.- .._..._..._ -_~ 6,815 7,418 +8.8 Veterans’ compensation and pension program. :; .. ______3,806 4,287 -l-13.6 Othere....-.------.---.------:4” .l 7 (6) “\ .; (9 8 .I Publicassistance . . . ____-..-- .__.. ~.-... 7 2.i ‘1.3 11:; a.1 Idaho .._.___. .._.._._.: 1,920 1,950 +I. 6 - _ ____-. . . .._ ~. _. 29,941 31,370 i4.8 Indiana. _ ._ .~ ._ _. 8,694 8, QaO +2.6 1 Continental United States only. Source: Earners aged G5 and over estimated by the Iowa.. ___._...... -._. 4,192 4,985 2 Excludes widows w-ho have remarried. Bureau of the Census. Population aged 65 and over, Kansas.---.....-....-.. 3,682 4,260 E:7” SIncludes children not living with widowed number of widows in population, number of earners Kentuckv _._.. _... ._-. 6,508 6,767 f4.0 mother. among widows and paternal orphans,, number of Louisiana.. .~--.. ._.. 9,915 11,400 1 Includes person with no income and with income wives of earners, and number of wres of maie Maine....~.~.~...... 1.854 1,600 t:g$ from sources other than those specified. Some per- beneficiaries of programs other than old-age and sur- Marylander.... -... 6,506 6,920 &I: 4 sons received income from more than one of tho vivors insurance estimated from Bureau of the Cen- Massachusetts .___ 20,916 24,100 i15.2 sources listed. sus data. Number of paternal orphans under age 18 6 Less than 50,000. based on October 1949 estimate prepared by the 20, OOi’ 23,243 i-16.2 6 Beneficiaries of State and local government pro- Social Security Administration. Number of persons 9,302, 9.662 +3.9 grams and wives of male beneficiaries of programs in receipt of payments under social insurance and 1,383 2,420 other than old-age and survivors insurance. relatcdpragramsand from publicassistance,reported 10,170 10,520 +2: : 7 Old-age assistance. by administrative agencies, partly ostimated. 2,422 2,544 8 Aid to dependent children. 2,178 2,360 $i:i 1,571 1,500 -4.5 1,516 1,670 27,681 29,010 E the groups with income from sources percent more than for the preceding 1,760 2,330 +32.4 other than those listed in the table- year. The relative increase was some- 112.051 119,18R +6.4 that is, persons with income from in- what greater than that in 1949, when 5,812 6,430 1.060 1,100 +:i:: vestments, industrial pensions, indi- payments were 6.1 percent above the Ohio...--..-- ...... ___ 38.065 40,000 +5.1 vidually purchased annuities, and con- total for 1948. Oklahoma-.. ____- 7,625 8,044: $6.9 Oregon- .._._...._ _.__ -., 7,923 R, 983 +13.4 tributions from relatives and friends. The slight acceleration in the rate Pennsylvania . .._..I 29.138 30,530 +5.8 Rhode Isbnd .-_.. 3.516 3, so0 J-8.1 It is estimated that perhaps a quarter of increase accompanied an upturn in 3,968 4,000 i-. 8 of a million persons aged 65 and over the number of work injuries, as esti- 802 950 $18.5 were in receipt of industrial pensions mated by the Bureau of Labor Sta- 5,429 +s:p 30,4374.7211 33,380 in 1950, that about 400,000 aged per- tistics. After dropping to a lo-year 1,781 1,880 5,E 5.640900 :::i sons, including some industrial pen- low in 1949, the volume of a.11dis- +7.3 sioners, were receiving annuities under abling work injuries-compensable 14,656 14,770 +.8 9,423 9.632 +2.2 insurance company contracts; and and noncompensable-increased about 12,3G2 13,3FG that about 300,000 aged survivors of 4 percent between 1949 and 1950.Com- 930 1,011 ii:” 7 insured perscns were drawing periodic pensation payments during 1950 re- 1-64. 5 payments from insurance companies flect the high wages on which benefits 1 Preliminary. Payments represent cash and under life insurance contracts. are based as well as this increase in medical benefit.s and include insursnce losses paid Reports from State public assist- the number of workers injured in on- by private insurance carriers (1949 data compiled from the Spectator: P~eminma nnd LOSSPS 0~ Slnies ance agencies to the Social Security the-job accidents. oj Cmualty, Surety and ~~1iscrZlnneous Lines, 78th annual issue; 1950 data from the Spectalw: Inswonce Administration for August 1951 indi- The increase was very uneven by S!ates oj Fire. Marine, CasuaE!g. Surety and Mis- cate that about 1 in 8 aged benefici- ccllnneoes Liw.8, 711th annunl issue), net aisburse- among the States. Under 10 progra.ms, met& of StJw funds (d;lts from the sppec:llor, the aries of old-age and survivors insur- payments in 1950 were at least 15 per- Argus Casuuiry and Surrtg Char!, 52116 annual edi- tion, and State reports and estimatrs for some ance and about 1 in every 10 child cent higher than in 1949. For some of 8tates),andsPli-insuranrepa~ments (estimated from uvnilablc State data). Data for calendar years ex- beneficiaries were receiving supple- these programs, notably that for Fed- cept for Mont.ana and West Virginia, for Federal mentary assistance in that month. employees, and for State fund disburwments in eral employees, the greater rate of in- Maryloud, Piorth Dakota, Oregoq and Ctah, for crease was associated with a statutory which data for fiseal years ended m 1949 and 19CD were used. Includes benefit payments under the liberalization in the maximum on the Longshommcn’s and Harbor Workers’ Comycns;t- Workmen’s Compensation tion Act and tbe Defense Bases Compensation Act weekly benefit amount; for several for the States in which such payments ure made. Payments, 1950 others, however, the increase was a Compensation payments and medl- continuation of a rise that had been cent was paid by private insurance cal beneflts under workmen’s compen- significantly greater than the national carriers, 24 percent by State funds, sation programs during 1950 have increase during the past few years. and 14 percent by self-insurers. Esti- been estimated at $618 million, 6.5 Of the total of $618 milIion, 62 per- (Continued on page 33)

26 Social Security Table 9.-Amount of vendor payments for medical Table IO.-Averagepayments including vendor payments cure for recipients of public assistance, by program for medical care and average amount of vendor pay- and State, July 19511 ments per assistance case, by program and State, - July 19511 Aid to the - Old-age Aid to Aid perma- Aid to Aid to the mata ’ assist- clependent 2,g; nently and 1 Old-age Aid to permanently ance children assistance “,” E. fl%tF the blind and totally d!%%d (per family) disabled ------Calif. ______. _. ._ _ _ _ _..______-______(9 %$2,543 Ven- corm. ______$113,853 $3,177 (9 State 1 dor %- Del. ______..?‘r?!! 58 _____.-______All pay All Pay- Pay- All Pay- Ill. ______426,308 32,173 10,899 $l,O, 932 ti0 887 . 1nent: ments ,gt. merits nents Ind ______284,062 53,741 11,177 125:055 assist, for assist- for for assist- for _ _..___..-..-. ______131,707 ante I medi. ance medi- ante medi- ance nedi- 25,503 3,192 ii038 42,051 cal cal cal cal 2,044 154 ‘974 628 care care care care _ _ .______(9 35,225 _- - -.- --- _ _. 76,099 Corm.. .______$73.44 $ 12.84 128.21 t20.74 578.20 $10.35 Minz. ______. 638,309 40,412 ______(‘) (5) Del. ______- _ __-__ 80.95 .60z‘ -_-_-_ Mont.. ___._.. ______.._-_-._-__. ______.______111,420 Ill-..-- ______48.82 3.64 1:: 2.60 Nebr.. _ _. 148,845 9,173 675 (6) $1 Ind ______40.47 5.79 ‘2 ii 5.46 44.13 6.11 NW. ______. _ _ _..____._.___ ._____-_____ 4,505 Kans ___...____ 51.71 2.70 85.74 5.42 55.18 4.94 N. H.. _ __ 57,160 17,181 2,142 La ..____.______46.52 49.51 .09 44.31 .08 N. J __...______-...-..- 14,445 ______-_ ‘23 777 Minn ______56.63 ll?55 99.98 5.18 - _. ______. N.Y...... ee 1,000,020 340,104 42,341 28 057 Nebr ._____.__ 52.45 6.52 89.76 2.75 61.33 N. 0 4,666 1,817 ______-_ ‘450 rd2’617 N.H .______.__ 62.33 8.00 110.87 11.50 56.37 7% N. Dak... ____ 20,863 . - - _. _. _ _ _ _ 192 1,097 16:873 N.J..-...... e. ______95.24 2.79 - - - - - _ _. _ _. _. Ohio .______202,859 13,263 3,759 ------_-__ 425,378 a.45 113.68 6.32 69.89 10.03 66.51 9.48 Oreg. .______._.- ______..------_-____-_ _-______. 109,237 45.97 . 11 _ _ _. ______26.82 .16 R.I.....-.---.-.-....--- _ _..______34,827 2s ______----_. 55.71 1.68 55.88 2.20 S.Dak ______. -._.-. .______75/f; 1.70 69.99 .92 44.03 .98 ._____ V.I_____._.__ 6 ______1 .08 15.15 - - - - _ - _ _ - _ _ _ --i- (9 Va ______..__ P! _ _..----.-.-______4,159 6.83 116.31 9:E 56.86 6.61 6’i.L 6.24 Wis ______._ 355,375 78,096 9,106 4,920 82,993 - - - 1 For July data excluding vendor payments for medical care, see the BuZZclin. 1 For July data excluding vendor payments for medical care, see the Bulletin, October 1951. All averages based on cases receiving money payments, vendor October 1951. payments for medical care, or both. ’ Excludes States that either made no vendor payments for medical care for 2 Excludes States that made no vendor payments for medical care for July July or did not report such payments. or did not report such payments. Also excludes States for which eount of cases 8 In all States except California, Illinois, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, and is believed to be incomDlete. the Virgin Islands includes payments made on behalf of recipients of the special 1 No program for aid-to the permanently and totally disabled. types of public assistance. ’ Less than 1 cent. 4 No program for aid to the permanently and totally disabled. 6 Average payment not computed on base of less than 50 recipients. b Data not available.

WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION showed quite different rates of in- costs accounted for just under one- (Continued from page 26) crease.In contrast to an I-percent rise third of total workmen’s compensa- mated national totals for each type for private carrier payments, State tion payments. Of the nonmedica1 of insurer for the 2 years are shown fund disbursementswent up 12 per- payments, roughly 87 percent was below. cent. The faster-than-average rate of cash compensation for nonfatal in- increase for State funds was concen- juries and the remaining 13 percent [In thousands] I trated in the program for Federal em- was paid in death cases.Following are Type of insurer 1949 1950 ployees; as a result of benefit liberali- the estimated amounts for each year: zation toward the end of 1949, pay- [In millions] Total.. .______I $569,338 I $618,489 ments in 1950 exceeded the previous Private carriers.. _ ..______381,030 year’s amount by 64 percent. Pay- Type of payment 1 1949 1 1950 Statefunds...... --.------150,155 ments under the other State funds Self+xwws.. ______87,254 were 6 percent higher in 1950than in Total.. .______._._.._ _. $570 $618 ~- 1949, the same rate of growth as for Medical and hospitalization ______. 185 self-insurance payments. Compensation, total . . ..______385 E Although the distribution by type Disability- _~ ______. 333 363 of insurer is approximately the same It is estimated that, in both 1949 Survivors-.-.--.---.------52 55 for 1949 and 1950, the components and 1950,medical and hospitalization

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