U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Policy

Children Receiving SSI, 2005

(released May 2006)
 

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Contact Information

For questions pertaining to the data, please call Clark Pickett at 410-965-9016 or e-mail ssi.children@ssa.gov. For additional copies, please e-mail op.publications@ssa.gov or call 202-358-6274.

Preface

Since 1974, the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program has provided monthly payments for blind and disabled children under the age of 18. Certain provisions are used to determine a child's eligibility and payment amount that differ from those applicable to adults. For children living in the same household with one or more parents, the parents' income and resources must be considered, or deemed, in determining the child's eligibility and payment amount. This report provides data on

  • applications by and awards to blind and disabled children;
  • SSI payments, income, demographic characteristics, geographic distribution, and disability diagnosis groups of SSI child recipients; and
  • type, amounts, and deeming status of parental income.

Clark D. Pickett of the Division of SSI Statistics and Analysis programmed and compiled the data. Staff of the Division of Information Resources edited the report and prepared the print and electronic versions for publication.

Linda Drazga Maxfield
Associate Commissioner for Research, Evaluation, and Statistics
May 2006

Table of Contents

The text and tables in this publication are available in both HTML and PDF. The tables are also available in Excel.

The following files are available for this document in the given formats:
Entire publication
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Summary and Introduction
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Tables
Table 1. Number and percentage distribution of recipients of federally administered SSI payments, by age, December 1974–2005
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Table 2. Number and percentage distribution of SSI applications received, by age, 1973–2005
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Table 3. Number and percentage distribution of SSI awards, by age, 1974–2005
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Table 4. Number and percentage distribution of SSI applications and awards for children, by selected characteristics, 2005
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Table 5. Number of children receiving federally administered SSI payments and average monthly payment, by SSA administrative region and state or other area, December 2005
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Table 6. Percentage distribution of children receiving federal SSI payments, by monthly payment, December 2005
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Table 7. Number and percentage distribution of children receiving federally administered SSI payments, by selected characteristics, December 2005
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Table 8. Number and percentage distribution of children receiving federally administered SSI payments, by diagnostic group and age, December 2005
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Table 9. Number and percentage distribution of children receiving federally administered SSI payments, by diagnostic group and sex, December 2005
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Table 10. Number and percentage distribution of adult recipients who first became eligible for SSI before age 18, by year of first eligibility and age in December 2005
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Table 11. Number and percentage distribution of children receiving federally administered SSI payments and average monthly amount of child's income, by type of income, December 2005
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Table 12. Number and percentage distribution of children receiving federally administered SSI payments, by number of parents in the household, December 2005
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Table 13. Number and percentage distribution of children receiving federally administered SSI payments with one parent in the household, by type and monthly amount of parental income, December 2005
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Table 14. Number and percentage distribution of children receiving federally administered SSI payments with two parents in the household, by type and monthly amount of parental income, December 2005
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Table 15. Number of children receiving federally administered SSI payments with one or more parents who have income and average monthly amount of parental income, by type of income, December 2005
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Table 16. Number and percentage distribution of children receiving federally administered SSI payments subject to deeming, by factors affecting parental deemed income, December 2005
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