Disabled worker beneficiary statistics by calendar
year, quarter, and month
| |
Awards
b |
In current payment status |
Terminations
c |
| Time period |
Number
of
appli-
cations a |
Number |
Increase
over prior
period |
Percent
of
appli-
cations |
Number
at end
of period |
Increase
over prior
period |
Number |
Increase
over prior
period |
Termi-
nation
rate |
| —by calendar year— |
| 2002 ..... |
1,682,454 |
750,464 |
8.56% |
44.61% |
5,543,981 |
5.12% |
479,606 |
5.12% |
8.34% |
| 2003 ..... |
1,895,521 |
777,905 |
3.66% |
41.04% |
5,873,673 |
5.95% |
450,720 |
-6.02% |
7.46% |
| 2004 ..... |
2,137,531 |
797,226 |
2.48% |
37.30% |
6,201,362 |
5.58% |
466,332 |
3.46% |
7.32% |
| 2005 ..... |
2,122,109 |
832,201 |
4.39% |
39.22% |
6,524,582 |
5.21% |
494,592 |
6.06% |
7.36% |
| 2006 ..... |
2,134,088 |
812,596 |
-2.36% |
38.08% |
6,811,679 |
4.40% |
513,292 |
3.78% |
7.28% |
| 2007 ..... |
2,190,196 |
823,106 |
1.29% |
37.58% |
7,101,355 |
4.25% |
525,012 |
2.28% |
7.14% |
| 2008 ..... |
2,320,396 |
895,011 |
8.74% |
38.57% |
7,427,203 |
4.59% |
564,518 |
7.52% |
7.34% |
| 2009 ..... |
2,816,244 |
985,940 |
10.16% |
35.01% |
7,789,113 |
4.87% |
628,478 |
11.33% |
7.79% |
| 2010 ..... |
2,935,798 |
1,052,551 |
6.76% |
35.85% |
8,204,710 |
5.34% |
646,387 |
2.85% |
7.64% |
| 2011 ..... |
2,878,920 |
1,025,003 |
-2.62% |
35.60% |
8,576,067 |
4.53% |
656,902 |
1.63% |
7.42% |
| 2012 ..... |
2,824,024 |
979,973 |
-4.39% |
34.70% |
8,827,795 |
2.94% |
726,432 |
10.58% |
7.90% |
| 2013 ..... |
2,653,939 |
884,894 |
-9.70% |
33.34% |
8,942,584 |
1.30% |
767,738 |
5.69% |
8.17% |
| 2014 ..... |
2,536,174 |
810,973 |
-8.35% |
31.98% |
8,954,518 |
0.13% |
793,646 |
3.37% |
8.37% |
| 2015 ..... |
2,427,443 |
775,739 |
-4.34% |
31.96% |
8,909,430 |
-0.50% |
817,045 |
2.95% |
8.62% |
| 2016 ..... |
2,321,583 |
744,268 |
-4.06% |
32.06% |
8,808,736 |
-1.13% |
830,044 |
1.59% |
8.81% |
|
| —by quarter— |
| 2013 Q3 |
677,674 |
225,905 |
-1.31% |
33.34% |
8,925,372 |
0.37% |
192,523 |
1.44% |
2.11% |
| 2013 Q4 |
597,078 |
201,158 |
-10.95% |
33.69% |
8,942,584 |
0.19% |
184,174 |
-4.34% |
2.01% |
| 2014 Q1 |
640,990 |
196,765 |
-2.18% |
30.70% |
8,932,828 |
-0.11% |
203,364 |
10.42% |
2.22% |
| 2014 Q2 |
666,531 |
215,638 |
9.59% |
32.35% |
8,954,010 |
0.24% |
192,440 |
-5.37% |
2.10% |
| 2014 Q3 |
646,030 |
209,492 |
-2.85% |
32.43% |
8,958,415 |
0.05% |
204,413 |
6.22% |
2.22% |
| 2014 Q4 |
582,623 |
189,078 |
-9.74% |
32.45% |
8,954,518 |
-0.04% |
193,429 |
-5.37% |
2.10% |
| 2015 Q1 |
608,319 |
187,921 |
-0.61% |
30.89% |
8,935,549 |
-0.21% |
206,356 |
6.68% |
2.25% |
| 2015 Q2 |
638,754 |
206,392 |
9.83% |
32.31% |
8,937,961 |
0.03% |
202,486 |
-1.88% |
2.21% |
| 2015 Q3 |
614,438 |
194,443 |
-5.79% |
31.65% |
8,921,350 |
-0.19% |
209,710 |
3.57% |
2.29% |
| 2015 Q4 |
565,932 |
186,983 |
-3.84% |
33.04% |
8,909,430 |
-0.13% |
198,493 |
-5.35% |
2.17% |
| 2016 Q1 |
578,655 |
185,123 |
-0.99% |
31.99% |
8,888,588 |
-0.23% |
203,524 |
2.53% |
2.23% |
| 2016 Q2 |
598,009 |
196,205 |
5.99% |
32.81% |
8,872,165 |
-0.18% |
206,988 |
1.70% |
2.27% |
| 2016 Q3 |
627,794 |
190,045 |
-3.14% |
30.27% |
8,841,345 |
-0.35% |
216,542 |
4.62% |
2.38% |
| 2016 Q4 |
517,125 |
172,895 |
-9.02% |
33.43% |
8,808,736 |
-0.37% |
202,990 |
-6.26% |
2.24% |
| 2017 Q1 |
561,965 |
193,674 |
12.02% |
34.46% |
8,778,443 |
-0.34% |
221,796 |
9.26% |
2.45% |
| 2017 Q2 |
562,813 |
196,430 |
1.42% |
34.90% |
8,755,405 |
-0.26% |
214,630 |
-3.23% |
2.38% |
|
| —by month— |
| 2016 May |
187,647 |
65,310 |
-8.85% |
34.80% |
8,883,832 |
-0.04% |
68,026 |
-3.34% |
0.75% |
| 2016 Jun |
174,750 |
59,247 |
-9.28% |
33.90% |
8,872,165 |
-0.13% |
68,582 |
0.82% |
0.76% |
| 2016 Jul |
220,353 |
62,339 |
5.22% |
28.29% |
8,860,637 |
-0.13% |
72,730 |
6.05% |
0.80% |
| 2016 Aug |
186,226 |
66,305 |
6.36% |
35.60% |
8,850,860 |
-0.11% |
73,910 |
1.62% |
0.82% |
| 2016 Sep |
221,215 |
61,401 |
-7.40% |
27.76% |
8,841,345 |
-0.11% |
69,902 |
-5.42% |
0.77% |
| 2016 Oct |
168,393 |
65,121 |
6.06% |
38.67% |
8,833,909 |
-0.08% |
71,645 |
2.49% |
0.79% |
| 2016 Nov |
155,329 |
50,275 |
-22.80% |
32.37% |
8,821,435 |
-0.14% |
62,884 |
-12.23% |
0.70% |
| 2016 Dec |
193,403 |
57,499 |
14.37% |
29.73% |
8,808,736 |
-0.14% |
68,461 |
8.87% |
0.76% |
| 2017 Jan |
167,168 |
69,910 |
21.58% |
41.82% |
8,795,964 |
-0.14% |
80,314 |
17.31% |
0.89% |
| 2017 Feb |
170,806 |
57,982 |
-17.06% |
33.95% |
8,787,797 |
-0.09% |
67,487 |
-15.97% |
0.75% |
| 2017 Mar |
223,991 |
65,782 |
13.45% |
29.37% |
8,778,443 |
-0.11% |
73,995 |
9.64% |
0.82% |
| 2017 Apr |
174,800 |
67,779 |
3.04% |
38.78% |
8,773,222 |
-0.06% |
71,319 |
-3.62% |
0.79% |
| 2017 May |
177,522 |
62,193 |
-8.24% |
35.03% |
8,762,423 |
-0.12% |
71,311 |
-0.01% |
0.80% |
| 2017 Jun |
210,491 |
66,458 |
6.86% |
31.57% |
8,755,405 |
-0.08% |
72,000 |
0.97% |
0.80% |
| 2017 Jul |
164,092 |
67,837 |
2.07% |
41.34% |
8,748,249 |
-0.08% |
75,688 |
5.12% |
0.85% |
| a
The number of applications is for disabled-worker benefits only and,
as such, excludes disabled child's and disabled widow(er)'s benefits.
These applications are those received at Social Security field offices,
teleservice centers, and claims filed electronically on the internet.
Applications ultimately result in either a denial or award of
benefits. These counts include applications that are denied because the
individual is not insured for
disability benefits.
Because the application data are tabulated on a weekly basis,
some months include 5 weeks of data while others include only 4 weeks.
This weekly method of tabulation accounts for much of the month-to-month
variation in the monthly application data. This method also
occasionally causes quarterly data to have either 12 or 14 weeks of data
instead of 13 weeks, annual data may include an extra week of data.
b
Award data are unedited and may contain duplicates.
Awards as a percentage of applications is a crude allowance rate. This
rate expresses the number of awards in a given time period as a percentage
of the number of applications in the same time period. Some of the awards
in any time period, however, resulted from applications in previous time
period(s).
c
The number of terminations is the number of beneficiaries who leave
the disability rolls for any reason. The number is calculated on the
basis of the change in the total number of entitled beneficiaries
(those in current payment status plus those whose benefits are
withheld for any reason) and the number of awards. The termination
rate is the ratio of the terminations to the number
of beneficiaries who could potentially leave the rolls. This latter
number is approximated as the sum of the number entitled at the beginning
of the time period plus half the number of awards in that period. |
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