SSI Recipients by State and County, 2002
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- Contact Information
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Accessibility and Usability Information
- Other Editions of this Publication
Contact Information
For questions pertaining to the data, please contact Stella M. Coleman at ssi.sc@ssa.gov or 410-965-0157. For additional copies of this report, please call 202-358-6274 or e-mail op.publications@ssa.gov.
Preface
County data on Supplemental Security Income (SSI) are a measure of the local impact of the program. This report is a resource for Social Security Administration staff in formulating policy and for local service providers and economic planners.
The SSI program is a cash assistance program that provides monthly benefits to low-income aged, blind, or disabled persons in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Northern Mariana Islands. The states and other jurisdictions have the option of supplementing their residents' SSI payments and may choose to have the additional payments administered by the federal government. When a state chooses federal administration, the Social Security Administration maintains the payment records and issues the federal payment and the state supplement in one check. The data presented in this document are for federal and federally administered state payments only. State-administered supplementation payments are not included.
The tables present SSI data by eligibility category (aged, blind and disabled) and age. State data on the number of recipients and amount of payments are shown in Tables 1 and 2, respectively. SSI recipients who also receive Social Security (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) benefits are shown in Table 1 and also in Table 3, which presents data at the county level.
The data are drawn from the 100 percent SORD file. State totals shown include a small number of recipients not distributed by county. To avoid disclosure of the reason for individuals' eligibility, data on eligibility categories are suppressed for counties with fewer than 15 recipients or where all recipients are in the same category. The amount of payments is not shown for counties with fewer than four recipients.
Stella M. Coleman in the Division of SSI Statistics and Analysis programmed and compiled the data for this report. Emil Loomis designed the cover, Celine Houget edited the report, Kathryn Winstead provided final production assistance, and Laurie Brown prepared the electronic versions for the Web.
Acting Associate Commissioner for Research, Evaluation, and Statistics
August 2003
Table of Contents
This document contains two tables that cover all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Northern Mariana Islands. The third table provides data by county for each of the states:
- Table 1. Number of recipients, by state or other area, eligibility category, age, and receipt of OASDI benefits, December 2002
- Table 2. Amount of payments, by state or other area, eligibility category, and age, December 2002
- Table 3. Number of recipients in state (by eligibility category, age, and receipt of OASDI benefits) and amount of payments, by county, December 2002
Data tables are available by state or region.
The HTML file for each state contains Table 3 for the given state.
The PDF files for the states and regions contain Tables 1 and 2 (which cover all states) and Table 3 for either the particular state or all states in the given region.
Data Tables by State
Data Tables by Region
Accessibility and Usability Information
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Other Editions of this Publication
Next Expected Update
February 2009
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Other Editions
- SSI Recipients by State and County, 2007 (released May 2008)
- SSI Recipients by State and County, 2006 (released May 2007)
- SSI Recipients by State and County, 2005 (released June 2006)
- SSI Recipients by State and County, 2004 (released March 2005)
- SSI Recipients by State and County, 2003 (released March 2004)
- SSI Recipients by State and County, 2002 (released August 2003)
- SSI Recipients by State and County, 2001 (released June 2002)
- SSI Recipients by State and County, 2000 (released June 2001)
- SSI Recipients by State and County, 1999 (released April 2000)
- SSI Recipients by State and County, 1998 (released July 1999)