Adult OASDI Beneficiaries and SSI Recipients Who Need Representative Payees: Projections for 2025 and 2035

by Chris E. Anguelov, Gabriella Ravida, and Robert R. Weathers II
Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 75, No. 2, 2015
Chart 1. Number of adult OASDI beneficiaries and SSI recipients with representative payees, by selected beneficiary type: 2013 and projected 2025 and 2035
Beneficiary type 2013 2025 2035
SSI 1,305 1,340 1,369
OASDI disabled worker 957 1,078 1,118
OASDI retired worker 520 768 1,002
OASDI nondisabled widow(er) 121 53 45
SOURCE: Authors' calculations using SSA records and MINT projections.
Chart 2. Retired-worker, nondisabled widow(er), and disabled-worker beneficiaries as percentages of all adult OASDI beneficiaries with a representative payee: 2013 and projected 2025 and 2035
Beneficiary type 2013 2025 2035
Retired workers 31.8 39.9 45.8
Nondisabled widow(er)s 7.4 2.7 2.1
Disabled workers 58.5 56.0 51.1
SOURCE: Authors' calculations using SSA records and MINT projections.
Chart 3. Retired-worker beneficiaries in each of four age groups as percentages of all adult OASDI beneficiaries with a representative payee: 2013 and projected 2025 and 2035
Age group 2013 2025 2035
Younger than 65 0.5 0.6 0.5
65–74 11.6 15.7 13.9
75–84 9.5 13.6 16.4
85 or older 10.2 10.0 15.0
SOURCE: Authors' calculations using SSA records and MINT projections.