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Social Security SSI Annual Statistical R eport, 2019 Social Security Administration Office of Retirement and Disability Policy Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics SSA Publication No. 13-11827 250 E Street SW, 8th Floor Produced and published at U.S. taxpayer expense Washington, DC 20254 Released: August 2020 Highlights Size and Scope of the Supplemental Security Income Program • About 8.1 million people received federally administered payments in December 2019. • The average monthly payment in December 2019 was $566. • Total payments for the year were almost $56 billion, including $2.6 billion in federally administered state supplementation. Profile of Recipients • The majority were female (52 percent). • Fourteen percent were under age 18, 58 percent were aged 18 to 64, and 28 percent were aged 65 or older. • Most (86 percent) were eligible on the basis of blindness or a disability. • Six out of 10 recipients under age 65 were diagnosed with a mental disorder. • Fifty-seven percent of SSI recipients had no income other than their SSI payment. • Thirty-three percent of SSI recipients also received Social Security benefits. • Of the people receiving SSI benefits, 1.5 percent were residing in a Title XIX institution where Medicaid was paying more than half of the cost. • Despite their disabilities, about 342,000 recipients (4.9 percent) were working in December 2019. Errata Policy If there are any additions or corrections to the data published herein, they will be posted as errata on the web at https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps /ssi_asr/2019/index.html. Preface Since 1974, the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program has guaranteed a mini- mum level of income for needy aged, blind, or disabled individuals. Each year, we issue a report that presents data on the SSI program and the people who receive benefits from it. The report covers such topics as: • federal benefit rates, total annual payments, and total recipients; • federally administered payments; • recipients of Social Security, SSI, or both; • children under age 18; • noncitizens; • diagnoses of recipients under age 65; • recipients who work; • applications; • awards; • outcomes of applications for disability benefits; and • suspensions, terminations, and duration of eligibility. Tables from the discontinued reports Children Receiving SSI and SSI Disabled Recipi- ents Who Work were incorporated into this report beginning with the 2007 edition. Aneer Rukh-Kamaa managed the preparation of this report and prepared the sta- tistical tables and narratives. Staff of the Office of Dissemination edited the report and prepared it for publication. Your suggestions and comments on this report are welcome. Any suggestions, com- ments, or general questions about the report should be directed to the Office of Statistical Analysis and Support at 410-965-0090 or [email protected]. Contact information is also provided on each table. This and other reports on the SSI program are available on our website at https://www.ssa.gov/policy. Katherine N. Bent Acting Associate Commissioner for Research, Evaluation, and Statistics August 2020 Notes All payments are federally administered payments. All years are calendar years unless otherwise specified. Numbers in the text and tables may not add to totals because of rounding. Monthly data shown in tables are for the end of the given month. iv ♦ SSI Annual Statistical Report, 2019 Contents Background . 1 History of the SSI Program . 1 The Basic Plan . 1 Uniform Standards and Objective Criteria . 1 Assistance of Last Resort. 3 Incentives for Work and Opportunities for Rehabilitation . 6 Administration of the SSI Program . 8 State Supplementation . 10 Coordination with Other Programs . 11 Tables Federal Benefit Rates, Total Annual Payments, and Total Recipients 1. Monthly federal SSI benefit rates, 1974–2020 �������������������������������������������������������� 15 2. Total payments, by eligibility category and source of payment, selected years 1974–2019 �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 16 3. Total recipients, by age and source of payment, 2003–2019. 20 Federally Administered Payments 4. Recipients, by age, December 1974–2019 . 25 5. By type of payment, sex, eligibility category, and age, December 2019 ����������������� 26 6. Recipients, by selected characteristics, eligibility category, and age, December 2019. 27 7. Recipients, by type of representative payee, eligibility category, and age, December 2019. 28 8. Recipients, by type of income, eligibility category, and age, December 2019 . 29 9. Recipients, by receipt of Social Security, type of income, eligibility category, and age, December 2019. 30 10. Recipients, by state or other area, eligibility category, and age, December 2019. 31 11. Average monthly payment, by state or other area, eligibility category, and age, December 2019. 33 12. Recipients and their average income, by type of income and marital status, December 2019. 35 13. Recipients as a percentage of resident population, by state, December 2019. 36 14. Foreign-born recipients, by region, country of origin, eligibility category, and age, December 2019. 38 SSI Annual Statistical Report, 2019 ♦ v Recipients of Social Security, SSI, or Both 15. Persons aged 18–64 receiving benefits on the basis of disability and their total and average monthly payments, by type of beneficiary, December 1996–2019 . 41 16. Persons aged 18–64 receiving both Social Security and SSI on the basis of disability and their average monthly Social Security benefit and SSI payment, by state or other area and type of beneficiary, December 2019 �������������� 43 Children Under Age 18 17. Recipients and average monthly payment, by SSA administrative region and state or other area, December 2019 ����������������������������������������������������������������������� 47 18. Percentage distribution of recipients, by monthly payment, December 2019 . 49 19. Recipients, by selected characteristics, December 2019. 50 20. Recipients, by diagnostic group and age, December 2019. 51 21. Recipients, by diagnostic group and sex, December 2019 . 52 22. Adult recipients who first became eligible for SSI before age 18, by year of first eligibility and age in December 2019 . 53 23. Recipients and average monthly amount of child’s income, by type of income, December 2019. 54 24. Recipients, by number of parents in the household, December 2019 . 55 25. Recipients with one parent in the household, by type and monthly amount of parental income, December 2019 ����������������������������������������������������������������������� 56 26. Recipients with two parents in the household, by type and monthly amount of parental income, December 2019 ����������������������������������������������������������������������� 57 27. Recipients with one or more parents who have income and average monthly amount of parental income, by type of income, December 2019 . 58 28. Recipients subject to deeming, by factors affecting parental deemed income, December 2019. 59 Noncitizens 29. Recipients, by eligibility category, December 1982–2019 . 63 30. Recipients, by selected characteristics and citizenship status, December 2019. 64 31. Recipients, by state or other area, eligibility category, and age, December 2019. 65 32. Recipients, by region and country of origin, eligibility category, and age, December 2019. 67 33. Recipients, by number of months between date of U.S. residency and date of SSI application, eligibility category, and age, December 2019. 68 Recipients Under Age 65 34. Recipients, by diagnostic group, 2011–20195����������������������������������������������������������� 71 35. Recipients, by diagnostic group and age, December 2019. 72 36. Recipients, by diagnostic group, age, and sex, December 2019 . 74 vi ♦ SSI Annual Statistical Report, 2019 37. Recipients with a representative payee, by diagnostic group and age, December 2019 ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 75 38. Percentage distribution of recipients by diagnostic group, by state or other area, December 2019 ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 76 38.A. Percentage distribution of recipients by mental disorders diagnostic group, by state or other area, December 2019 ��������������������������������������������������������������� 80 39. Average monthly payment, by state or other area and diagnostic group, December 2019 ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 82 39.A. Average monthly payment, by state or other area and mental disorders diagnostic group, December 2019 ����������������������������������������������������������������������� 86 Recipients Who Work 40. Blind and disabled recipients who work, selected months 1976–2019 . 91 41. Blind and disabled recipients who work, by state or other area, December 2019 ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 93 42. Percentage distribution of all blind and disabled recipients and those who work aged 18–64, by diagnostic group, December 2019 ����������������������������� 95 43. All blind and disabled recipients, those who work, and section 1619(b) participants aged 18–64, by age, December 2019 ����������������������������������������������� 96 44. Blind and disabled recipients in December 2018, by program status and earnings in December 2019 ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������