SSI Monthly Statistics, May 2025

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, May 2025
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 7,409,168 1,193,648 6,215,520 1,008,130 3,918,514 2,482,524
Federal payment only 6,085,134 792,198 5,292,936 897,108 3,384,333 1,803,693
Federal payment and state supplementation 1,196,250 353,064 843,186 110,083 490,282 595,885
State supplementation only 127,784 48,386 79,398 939 43,899 82,946
Total with—  
Federal payment 7,281,384 1,145,262 6,136,122 1,007,191 3,874,615 2,399,578
State supplementation 1,324,034 401,450 922,584 111,022 534,181 678,831
Also receiving OASDI benefits 2,553,913 679,137 1,874,776 56,811 1,079,246 1,417,856
  Total payments c (thousands of dollars)
Total 5,779,439 717,935 5,061,504 962,504 3,304,823 1,512,112
Federal payments 5,483,259 626,387 4,856,872 951,572 3,176,105 1,355,582
State supplementation 296,180 91,547 204,633 10,932 128,718 156,529
  Average monthly payment d (dollars)
Total 718.30 584.18 744.09 847.36 764.57 593.24
Federal payments 692.26 530.30 722.55 838.62 742.77 549.77
State supplementation 212.56 223.22 207.91 87.15 221.91 225.68
  Number of awards e
Total 58,323 9,942 48,381 15,268 32,747 10,308
SOURCE: Social Security Administration, Supplemental Security Record, 100 percent data.
a. Includes 6,151,822 disabled and 63,698 blind recipients.
b. Includes 1,275,766 disabled and 13,110 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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