SSI Monthly Statistics, October 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, October 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 7,393,406 1,197,319 6,196,087 1,008,066 3,881,256 2,504,084
Federal payment only 6,074,337 795,878 5,278,459 896,746 3,353,912 1,823,679
Federal payment and state supplementation 1,191,498 353,572 837,926 110,268 483,638 597,592
State supplementation only 127,571 47,869 79,702 1,052 43,706 82,813
Total with—  
Federal payment 7,265,835 1,149,450 6,116,385 1,007,014 3,837,550 2,421,271
State supplementation 1,319,069 401,441 917,628 111,320 527,344 680,405
Also receiving OASDI benefits 2,562,996 680,769 1,882,227 56,426 1,074,216 1,432,354
  Total payments c (thousands of dollars)
Total 5,617,241 706,559 4,910,683 917,211 3,201,678 1,498,353
Federal payments 5,325,439 616,116 4,709,323 906,555 3,075,628 1,343,256
State supplementation 291,802 90,443 201,360 10,655 126,050 155,097
  Average monthly payment d (dollars)
Total 717.51 588.09 742.61 837.13 765.38 595.66
Federal payments 691.40 534.25 721.05 828.43 743.55 552.37
State supplementation 212.51 223.46 207.71 86.85 221.87 225.77
  Number of awards e
Total 55,864 9,032 46,832 14,164 32,327 9,373
SOURCE: Social Security Administration, Supplemental Security Record, 100 percent data.
a. Includes 6,132,569 disabled and 63,518 blind recipients.
b. Includes 1,293,633 disabled and 13,132 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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