About Us

Research & Policy Analysis

Research and policy analysis on this website result from a collaborative effort between staff in Analytics and Improvements and staff in Law and Policy.

Analytics and Improvements staff also support development of the Modeling Income in the Near Term (MINT) microsimulation model, which is used for some of our research.

Note that archival content references the organizational names in effect at the time of publication.

Statistics

Our Analytics and Improvements staff are the agency's source for statistics on the OASDI and SSI programs and the earnings of the working and beneficiary populations.

Below are our annual reports to the Office of Management and Budget required under the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (CIPSEA).

Errata Policy

As a federal statistical agency, it is our policy to correct factual errors that impair data interpretation in our research or statistical material. Corrections will be posted as an errata within the affected publication on our website (https://www.ssa.gov/policy/).