OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County, 2003
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OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County, 2003(released August 2004)
On this page: Contact InformationFor questions pertaining to the data, please contact Jennie Park at oasdi.sc@ssa.gov or Accessibility and Usability InformationThe HTML files for this document are Section 508 compliant—accessible to persons with disabilities. If you have comments on how to improve the accessibility of this document, please In order to view and print the PDF files for this document, you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not already have it, you may download the Acrobat Reader from Adobe's Web site at no charge. PrefaceThis 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 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:
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 ErrataThe printed version of this report contained incorrect data in Table 5—the amount of benefits in current-payment status—for the following counties in Indiana:
The electronic versions of this report have been corrected. Table of ContentsData tables are available by state or region. The PDF file for each state contains the following five tables:
The PDF file for each region contains Tables The HTML file for each state contains Tables 4 and 5 for the given state. The HTML file for each region contains Tables 4 and 5 for the states in the given region. The following files are available for this document in the given formats: Data Tables by State
Outlying areas
Data Tables by Region
Region 3 (Philadelphia)
Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia
Region 4 (Atlanta)
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee
Region 9 (San Francisco)
Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, American Samoa, Guam, and Northern Mariana Islands
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