U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Policy

OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County, 2003

(released August 2004)
 

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Contact Information

For questions pertaining to the data, please contact Jennie Park at oasdi.sc@ssa.gov or 410-965-9358. For additional copies, please call 202-358-6274 or e-mail op.publications@ssa.gov.

Preface

This annual publication focuses on the Social Security beneficiary population at the local level. It presents basic program data on the number and type of beneficiaries and the amount of benefits paid in each state and county. It also shows the numbers of men and women aged 65 or older receiving benefits. This report is a useful planning aid for Social Security Administration field offices and for those providing information to federal, state, and local government agencies.

The data are derived from the Master Beneficiary Record, the principal administrative file of Social Security beneficiaries. The national ZIP + 4 file produced by the U.S. Postal Service is used to designate the beneficiary's state and county. The ZIP + 4 file, which specifies counties in terms of 9-digit ZIP Codes, provides a more accurate designation of counties in places where ZIP Code areas cross county boundaries than that which is available in the Master Beneficiary Record.

The data include only persons whose benefits are currently payable. Those whose benefits were withheld are excluded.

Some Social Security beneficiaries have a representative payee—a person designated by the Social Security Administration to receive their monthly benefit when such action is in the beneficiary's best interest. About 4 percent of all adult beneficiaries and virtually all child beneficiaries under age 18 have representative payees. For most children, the representative payee is the parent with whom the child resides. For beneficiaries with representative payees, the state and county designations are those of the representative payees, not those of the beneficiaries.

A special procedure (controlled rounding) has been used in preparing Tables 4 and 5 to avoid disclosure of the reason for eligibility of small groups and the amount of benefits received. Under this procedure, county data on the number of persons shown in Table 4 are changed according to the following formula:

  1. If the number is divisible by 5 (ends in 0 or 5), then the numbers are not changed.
  2. Otherwise, the number is rounded either to the next higher number divisible by 5 or the next lower number divisible by 5, in such a way that the difference between each rounded and unrounded cell value, each rounded and unrounded row total, and each rounded and unrounded column total is less than 5.
After the numbers in Table 4 have been rounded, the dollar amounts in Table 5 are proportionately adjusted upward or downward, as appropriate.

Jennie H. Park in the Division of Retirement, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Statistics and Analysis programmed and compiled the data for this report. Emil Loomis designed the cover. Laurie Brown produced the report and prepared the electronic versions for the Web.

Edward J. DeMarco
Associate Commissioner for Research, Evaluation, and Statistics
August 2004

Errata

The print and electronic versions of this report contained incorrect data in Table 4—the number of beneficiaries with benefits in current-payment status—for women aged 65 or older in Alaska.

The print version of this report also contained incorrect data in Table 5—the amount of benefits in current-payment status—for the following counties in Indiana:

  • Tipton
  • Union
  • Vanderburgh
  • Vermillion
  • Vigo
  • Wabash
  • Warren
  • Warrick
  • Washington
  • Wayne
  • Wells
  • White
  • Whitley

The electronic versions of this report have been corrected.

Table of Contents

Data tables are available by state or region.

The PDF file for each state contains the following five tables:

  • Table 1. Beneficiaries as a percentage of the total resident population and of the population aged 65 or older, by state, December 2003
  • Table 2. Number of beneficiaries with benefits in current-payment status, by state or other area, type of benefit, and sex of beneficiaries aged 65 or older, December 2003
  • Table 3. Amount of benefits in current-payment status, by state or other area, type of benefit, and sex of beneficiaries aged 65 or older, December 2003
  • Table 4. Number of beneficiaries in state or other area with benefits in current-payment status, by county, type of benefit, and sex of beneficiaries aged 65 or older, December 2003
  • Table 5. Amount of benefits in current-payment status for beneficiaries in state or other area, by county, type of benefit, and sex of beneficiaries aged 65 or older, December 2003

The PDF file for each region contains Tables 1–3 (which cover all states) and Tables 4 and 5 for each state in the particular region.

The HTML file for each state contains Tables 4 and 5 for the given state.

The following files are available for this document in the given formats:
Entire publication
PDF.
Table 1
HTML. PDF.
Table 2
HTML. PDF.
Table 3
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 2 and 3 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 areas
American Samoa
County data not applicable.
Please see Tables 2 and 3 for totals.
Guam
County data not applicable.
Please see Tables 2 and 3 for totals.
Northern Mariana Islands
County data not applicable.
Please see Tables 2 and 3 for totals.
Puerto Rico
HTML. PDF.
Virgin Islands
HTML. PDF.
Foreign countries
County data not applicable.
Please see Tables 2 and 3 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, New York, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands
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, and 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, American Samoa, Guam, and Northern Mariana Islands
PDF.
Region 10 (Seattle)
Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington
PDF.

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