U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Policy

Annual Statistical Supplement, 2005

(released February 2006)
 

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Errata

The original print and electronic versions of this report contained several errors. The following information has been corrected in the electronic versions of this report:

  • Table 3.C6—The correct source for this table is Social Security Administration, Master Beneficiary Record, 10 percent sample.
  • Table 4.B3—The median earnings for "All workers, women" for 2000–2003 were incorrectly reported as being the same as the data for men.
  • Table 4.B8—The data for "All self-employed workers" for 2000–2003 were not updated from the 2004 Supplement.
  • Table 4.B14—The data for "Medicare (HI) taxable earnings" were incorrect because of the inconsistent weighting of sample outlier records.
  • Table 8.C2—The data were incorrectly referred to as being "in thousands"; they represented the actual numbers.

[Posted: January 14, 2008.]

The original print and electronic versions of this report contained several errors. The following information has been corrected in the electronic versions of this report and distributed as an insert for the print edition:

  • Tables 3.C7a, 3.C7b, and 3.C8—The years shown in the tables were incorrectly labeled. Data for the number of persons are for March 2005 (not March 2004); data for average annual benefits are for 2004 (not 2003); and the correct source is the March 2005 Income Supplement from the Current Population Survey (not March 2004).

[Posted: April 10, 2006.]

The electronic versions originally posted contained errors. The following information has been corrected in the current electronic versions and in the print edition:

  • Program Descriptions—Social Security, Taxation of Benefits: The upper income threshold for single beneficiaries was corrected from $32,000 to $34,000.
  • Table 2.B1—Amended date of Social Security Act of 1935 corrected from December 31, 2003 to December 31, 2004 in the source.
  • Table 8.B81—Dates in title corrected from 1990–2003 to 1990–2004 to accurately reflect the data included in table.
  • Table 8.B9—Dates in title corrected from 1995–2004 to 1996–2004 to accurately reflect the data included in table.

[Posted: February 16, 2006.]

The electronic versions originally posted contained errors. The following information has been corrected in the current electronic versions and in the print edition:

  • Table 5.J11—The data in the rows for the Philippines and Thailand were reversed. The table that was originally posted omitted the row stub "Czech Republic," causing the data from Denmark through Poland to be incorrectly labeled and the data for Poland omitted.
  • Appendix D—The second bend point in "Step 4 - Computing the Primary Insurance Amount (PIA)" was corrected from $3,689 to $3,779.

[Posted: January 11, 2006.]

Table of Contents

The following files are available for this document in the given formats:
Entire document (2.6 MB)
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Highlights and Trends
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Program Descriptions and Legislative History
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Tables
History of OASDI Provisions
Coverage, Financing, and Insured Status (2.A1–2.A7)
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Benefit Computation and Automatic Adjustments (2.A8–2.A19)
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Benefit Types and Levels (2.A20–2.A28)
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Effect of Current Earnings and Taxation of Benefits (2.A29–2.A32)
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History of SSI, Medicare, and Medicaid Provisions (2.B–2.C)
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SSA Administrative Data
Offices and Staff (2.F1–2.F3)
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Claims Workloads (2.F4–2.F6)
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Service Delivery (2.F7)
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Hearings and Appeals (2.F8–2.F11)
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Social Welfare and the Economy
Employment and Earnings (3.B)
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Interprogram Data (3.C)
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Poverty (3.E)
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Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance
Trust Funds (4.A)
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Covered Workers (4.B)
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Insured Workers (4.C)
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Benefits in Current-Payment Status
Summary (5.A)
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Retired Workers (5.B)
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Retired Workers and Dependents (5.C)
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Disabled Workers (5.D)
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Disabled Workers and Dependents (5.E)
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Dependents and Survivors (5.F)
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Retired Workers with Dual Entitlement (5.G)
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Beneficiary Families (5.H)
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Geographic Data (5.J)
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Direct Deposit (5.K)
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Representative Payee (5.L)
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International Agreements (5.M)
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Benefits Awarded, Withheld, and Terminated
Benefits Awarded
Summary (6.A)
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Retired Workers (6.B)
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Disabled Workers (6.C)
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Dependents and Survivors (6.D)
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Benefits Withheld (6.E)
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Benefits Terminated (6.F)
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Supplemental Security Income
Summary (7.A)
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State Data (7.B)
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Benefit Distributions (7.C)
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Other Income Sources (7.D)
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Recipient Characteristics (7.E)
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Health Care Programs
Medicare
Trust Funds (8.A)
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Enrollment, Utilization, and Reimbursement (8.B)
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Participating Facilities (8.C)
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Medicaid
Recipients (8.E)
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State Data (8.H)
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Other Social Insurance, Veterans' Benefits, and Public Assistance
Other Social Insurance and Veterans' Benefits
Unemployment Insurance (9.A)
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Workers' Compensation (9.B)
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Temporary Disability Insurance (9.C)
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Black Lung Benefits (9.D)
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Veterans' Benefits (9.F)
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Public Assistance
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families/AFDC and Emergency Assistance (9.G)
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Food Stamps (9.H)
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Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (9.J)
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Appendix A: Sampling Variability
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Appendix B: OASDI Benefit Award Data
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Appendix C: Poverty Data
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Appendix D: Computing a Retired-Worker Benefit (the PDF file includes tables from other parts of the Supplement that are necessary to complete the worksheet)
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Glossary
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Abbreviations
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