OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County, 1998
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OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County, 1998(released January 2000)
On this page: Contact InformationFor questions pertaining to the data, please contact Jennie Park at oasdi.sc@ssa.gov or Accessibility and Usability InformationThis document predates the implementation of Section 508 and is not accessible to persons with disabilities. If you need access to information in this document, please contact the 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. ForewordThis 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 (MBR), 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 MBR. The data presented include only persons whose benefits are currently payable. Those whose benefits were withheld are excluded. (Benefits are withheld primarily because a beneficiary has earnings in excess of the exempt amounts under the earnings test provision of the Social Security Act.) Some Social Security beneficiaries have a representative A special procedure (controlled random rounding) has been used in the preparation of 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:
This publication was prepared in the Division of Retirement, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (RSDI) Statistics and Analysis. Salvatore J. Gallicchio was responsible for the programming and data processing. Rona Blumenthal compiled the data. This and other publications on the Social Security program are available on our Web site at www.ssa.gov/policy.
Paul N. Van de Water
Associate Commissioner for Research, Evaluation, and Statistics January 2000 Table of ContentsThe following files are available for this document in PDF format: The following files are available for this document in the given formats:
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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, Tennessee
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