U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Policy

SSI Recipients by State and County, 2001

(released June 2002)
 

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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 Supplemental Security Record, the principal administrative data file for the SSI program. 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 book cover, Celine Houget edited the report, and Laurie Brown prepared the electronic versions for the Web.

Susan Grad
Acting Associate Commissioner for Research, Evaluation, and Statistics
June 2002

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 eligibility category, age, receipt of OASDI benefits, and state or other area
  • Table 2. Amount of payments, by eligibility category, age, and state or other area
  • Table 3. Number of recipients in state (by eligibility category, age, and receipt of OASDI benefits) and amount of payments, by county

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.

The following files are available for this document in the given formats:
Entire publication
PDF.
Table 1
HTML. PDF.
Table 2
HTML. PDF.

Data Tables by State

Alabama
HTML. PDF.
Alaska
HTML. PDF.
Arizona
HTML. PDF.
Arkansas
HTML. PDF.
California
HTML. PDF.
Colorado
HTML. PDF.
Connecticut
HTML. PDF.
Delaware
HTML. PDF.
District of Columbia
County data not applicable.
Please see Tables 1 and 2 for totals.
Florida
HTML. PDF.
Georgia
HTML. PDF.
Hawaii
HTML. PDF.
Idaho
HTML. PDF.
Illinois
HTML. PDF.
Indiana
HTML. PDF.
Iowa
HTML. PDF.
Kansas
HTML. PDF.
Kentucky
HTML. PDF.
Louisiana
HTML. PDF.
Maine
HTML. PDF.
Maryland
HTML. PDF.
Massachusetts
HTML. PDF.
Michigan
HTML. PDF.
Minnesota
HTML. PDF.
Mississippi
HTML. PDF.
Missouri
HTML. PDF.
Montana
HTML. PDF.
Nebraska
HTML. PDF.
Nevada
HTML. PDF.
New Hampshire
HTML. PDF.
New Jersey
HTML. PDF.
New Mexico
HTML. PDF.
New York
HTML. PDF.
North Carolina
HTML. PDF.
North Dakota
HTML. PDF.
Ohio
HTML. PDF.
Oklahoma
HTML. PDF.
Oregon
HTML. PDF.
Pennsylvania
HTML. PDF.
Rhode Island
HTML. PDF.
South Carolina
HTML. PDF.
South Dakota
HTML. PDF.
Tennessee
HTML. PDF.
Texas
HTML. PDF.
Utah
HTML. PDF.
Vermont
HTML. PDF.
Virginia
HTML. PDF.
Washington
HTML. PDF.
West Virginia
HTML. PDF.
Wisconsin
HTML. PDF.
Wyoming
HTML. PDF.
Outlying area
Northern Mariana Islands
County data not applicable.
Please see Tables 1 and 2 for totals.

Data Tables by Region

Region 1 (Boston)
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
PDF.
Region 2 (New York)
New Jersey and New York
PDF.
Region 3 (Philadelphia)
Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia
PDF.
Region 4 (Atlanta)
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
PDF.
Region 5 (Chicago)
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin
PDF.
Region 6 (Dallas)
Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas
PDF.
Region 7 (Kansas City)
Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska
PDF.
Region 8 (Denver)
Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming
PDF.
Region 9 (San Francisco)
Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and Northern Mariana Islands
PDF.
Region 10 (Seattle)
Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington
PDF.

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