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Contact Information

For general questions about the report, please call Alfreda Brooks at 410-965-9849 or e-mail ssi.asr@ssa.gov. Specific questions about the data may be directed to the contact person listed on each table. That contact information is current as of the release date. For additional copies of this report, please call 202-358-6274 or e-mail op.publications@ssa.gov.

Accessibility and Usability Information

This 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 person(s) listed above.

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Introduction

This report is a source document describing the SSI program and the people who receive benefits from the program. Tables and charts in the report cover a series of topics:

• Federal payment standards
• Recipient characteristics
• State-administered supplements
• Cross program payments
• Living arrangements
• Noncitizens
• Disability types
• Work incentives
• Applications
• Awards
• Denials
• Suspensions

This report was prepared by Alfreda M. Brooks, Office of Research, Evaluation and Statistics.

Four additional publications on the SSI program are also available on our Web site (http://www.ssa.gov/policy/): State Assistance Programs for SSI Recipients, January 1999; Children Receiving SSI, March 2000; Quarterly Report on Disabled Workers and Work Incentive Provisions, March 2000; and SSI Recipients by State and County, 1999.

Table of contents

The following files are available for this document in given formats:

• SSI Recipients, by category and age, December 1999
• Number of SSI Recipients, by age, 1974-99
• Number of SSI Applications received, by age, 1974-99
• Number of SSI Awards, by age, 1974-99
• SSI Blind and Disabled Recipients, by diagnosis, December 1999

Other Editions of this Publication

Next Expected Update

August 2005

Other Editions

• SSI Annual Statistical Report, 2003 (released September 2004)
• SSI Annual Statistical Report, 2002 (released August 2003)
• SSI Annual Statistical Report, 2001 (released June 2002)
• SSI Annual Statistical Report, 2000 (released May 2001)
• SSI Annual Statistical Report, 1999 (released June 2000)