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National Income and Product Accounts Table
Table 3.12. Government Social Benefits [Billions of dollars]
Today is: 9/20/2008 Last Revised on August 06, 2008

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Line		2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
1	Government social benefits	1,319.5	1,399.1	1,485.0	1,581.4	1,685.0
2	To persons	1,316.7	1,396.1	1,481.9	1,578.1	1,681.4
3	Federal	963.7	1,012.3	1,078.5	1,177.1	1,250.6
4	Benefits from social insurance funds	811.6	842.0	894.2	987.7	1,051.2
5	Old-age, survivors, and disability insurance	463.4	485.2	512.6	544.1	575.7
6	Hospital and supplementary medical insurance	277.9	302.8	331.9	394.8	423.7
7	Unemployment insurance	53.2	36.4	31.8	30.4	32.7
8	State	41.5	34.3	31.0	29.6	32.0
9	Railroad employees	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
10	Federal employees	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.6
11	Special unemployment benefits	10.9	1.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
12	Railroad retirement	8.9	9.0	9.2	9.5	9.8
13	Pension benefit guaranty	2.3	2.4	2.6	2.5	2.6
14	Veterans life insurance	1.7	1.7	1.6	1.6	1.5
15	Workers' compensation	2.4	2.5	2.5	2.4	2.6
16	Military medical insurance¹	1.8	2.0	2.1	2.5	2.5
17	Veterans benefits	29.9	32.4	34.8	37.2	40.0
18	Pension and disability	28.0	30.2	32.5	34.9	37.6
19	Readjustment	1.9	2.2	2.3	2.3	2.4
20	Other²	---	---	---	---	---
21	Food stamp benefits	22.1	25.6	29.5	29.4	30.9
22	Black lung benefits	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6
23	Supplemental security income	30.7	32.1	33.1	34.7	36.7
24	Direct relief	---	---	---	---	---
25	Earned income credit	38.5	41.9	49.2	51.6	54.7
26	Other³	30.2	37.5	37.1	35.9	36.5
27	State and local	353.0	383.8	403.5	401.0	430.8
28	Benefits from social insurance funds	15.2	16.2	16.4	16.4	16.7
29	Temporary disability insurance	3.6	3.8	4.1	4.4	4.6
30	Workers' compensation	11.6	12.4	12.3	12.0	12.1
31	Public assistance	319.3	347.6	365.3	360.5	387.8
32	Medical care	273.9	300.1	315.3	311.4	336.6
33	Medicaid	264.6	289.7	304.4	299.1	323.7
34	Other medical care⁴	9.4	10.4	11.0	12.3	12.9
35	Family assistance⁵	18.4	18.4	18.2	18.3	18.8
36	Supplemental security income⁶	5.0	5.2	5.2	5.2	5.4
37	General assistance	6.1	7.3	9.5	8.0	9.0
38	Energy assistance	2.3	2.1	2.4	3.0	2.7
39	Other⁷	13.7	14.5	14.6	14.6	15.2
40	Education	15.5	17.2	18.9	20.9	23.1
41	Employment and training	1.4	1.3	1.2	1.3	1.0
42	Other⁸	1.6	1.5	1.6	1.9	2.2
43	To the rest of the world⁹	2.8	3.0	3.1	3.3	3.6

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