SSI Monthly Statistics, December 2024

All Federally Administered Payments

Table 1. Number of recipients, total payments, average monthly payment, and number of awards, by type of payment, eligibility category, and age, December 2024
Type of payment All recipients Eligibility category Age
Aged Blind and disabled a Under 18 18–64 65 or older b
  Number of recipients c
Total 7,423,856 1,190,660 6,233,196 1,002,887 3,951,866 2,469,103
Federal payment only 6,096,703 788,597 5,308,106 893,939 3,412,777 1,789,987
Federal payment and state supplementation 1,193,140 350,587 842,553 107,983 493,002 592,155
State supplementation only 134,013 51,476 82,537 965 46,087 86,961
Total with—  
Federal payment 7,289,843 1,139,184 6,150,659 1,001,922 3,905,779 2,382,142
State supplementation 1,327,153 402,063 925,090 108,948 539,089 679,116
Also receiving OASDI benefits 2,548,159 679,531 1,868,628 56,705 1,080,790 1,410,664
  Total payments c (thousands of dollars)
Total 5,528,062 677,097 4,850,966 895,681 3,200,945 1,431,436
Federal payments 5,233,633 586,397 4,647,236 885,088 3,072,111 1,276,435
State supplementation 294,430 90,700 203,730 10,593 128,835 155,002
  Average monthly payment d (dollars)
Total 696.70 564.14 722.06 812.54 743.12 575.59
Federal payments 670.65 510.61 700.35 803.90 721.22 532.04
State supplementation 212.86 222.87 208.51 87.19 222.14 225.65
  Number of awards e
Total 55,706 9,925 45,781 13,990 31,457 10,259
SOURCE: Social Security Administration, Supplemental Security Record, 100 percent data.
a. Includes 6,169,449 disabled and 63,747 blind recipients.
b. Includes 1,265,326 disabled and 13,117 blind recipients aged 65 or older.
c. Includes retroactive payments.
d. Excludes retroactive payments.
e. Preliminary data. In the first 2 months after their release, numbers may be adjusted downward to reflect returned checks.
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