SSI Monthly Statistics, April 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, April 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 7,427,236 1,169,999 6,257,237 993,999 4,012,756 2,420,481
Federal payment only 6,100,591 772,761 5,327,830 886,436 3,464,756 1,749,399
Federal payment and state supplementation 1,193,592 346,550 847,042 106,666 501,521 585,405
State supplementation only 133,053 50,688 82,365 897 46,479 85,677
Total with—  
Federal payment 7,294,183 1,119,311 6,174,872 993,102 3,966,277 2,334,804
State supplementation 1,326,645 397,238 929,407 107,563 548,000 671,082
Also receiving OASDI benefits 2,523,201 671,666 1,851,535 57,378 1,080,812 1,385,011
  Total payments c (thousands of dollars)
Total 5,590,988 669,629 4,921,359 899,556 3,280,261 1,411,172
Federal payments 5,293,113 579,522 4,713,591 888,952 3,147,056 1,257,105
State supplementation 297,875 90,107 207,768 10,604 133,205 154,067
  Average monthly payment d (dollars)
Total 698.16 562.64 723.51 815.71 743.46 574.98
Federal payments 672.03 508.68 701.68 807.04 721.44 530.99
State supplementation 213.32 223.01 209.18 87.39 222.81 225.73
  Number of awards e
Total 63,317 11,952 51,365 15,436 35,567 12,314
SOURCE: Social Security Administration, Supplemental Security Record, 100 percent data.
a. Includes 6,193,140 disabled and 64,097 blind recipients.
b. Includes 1,237,480 disabled and 13,002 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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