Chart Descriptions - Distributional Effects of Reducing the Cost-of-Living Adjustments

Table equivalent for Chart 1 SSI recipients, by type of household
Type of household	Percent
One recipient	70
Married couple	9
Other multirecipients	21
SOURCE: Melissa Koenig and Kalman Rupp, "SSI Recipients in Households and Families with Multiple Recipients: Prevalence and Poverty Outcomes," Social Security Bulletin 65 (forthcoming), Table 1; Social Security Administration, SSI Annual Statistical Report, 2002 (Washington, DC: Office of Policy, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, 2003), Table 11.

Table equivalent for Chart 2 Percentage of SSI recipients in each age group who live in a noncouple multirecipient household
Age group	Percent
All ages	21.00
Under 18	38.00
18–64	22.00
65 or older	12.00
SOURCE: Melissa Koenig and Kalman Rupp, "SSI Recipients in Households and Families with Multiple Recipients," Social Security Bulletin 65 (forthcoming), Table 1.

Table equivalent for Chart 3 SSI recipients in poverty, by number of persons and recipients in household and poverty measure used (in percent)
Persons in household	One recipient	Two or more recipients
1	79.7	. . .
2 married	37.5	43.9
2 nonmarried	30	9.6
3	23.4	22.6
4	25.2	19.7
5	31.6	24.5
6	25.4	26.7
7	20.8	26.2
8 or more	42.9	39.9
SOURCE: Authors' calculations using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation matched to Social Security administrative records.
NOTE: . . . = not applicable.