SSI Monthly Statistics, March 2022

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, March 2022
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 7,649,355 1,111,471 6,537,884 1,035,385 4,323,130 2,290,840
Federal payment only 6,290,371 725,404 5,564,967 924,315 3,726,949 1,639,107
Federal payment and state supplementation 1,225,681 338,976 886,705 110,292 544,319 571,070
State supplementation only 133,303 47,091 86,212 778 51,862 80,663
Total with—  
Federal payment 7,516,052 1,064,380 6,451,672 1,034,607 4,271,268 2,210,177
State supplementation 1,358,984 386,067 972,917 111,070 596,181 651,733
Also receiving OASDI benefits 2,559,381 637,829 1,921,552 63,469 1,190,581 1,305,331
  Total payments c (thousands of dollars)
Total 4,962,732 561,170 4,401,562 792,794 2,992,457 1,177,481
Federal payments 4,713,413 488,398 4,225,015 783,976 2,876,125 1,053,312
State supplementation 249,319 72,772 176,546 8,818 116,332 124,169
  Average monthly payment d (dollars)
Total 625.50 501.76 646.54 737.99 659.06 511.47
Federal payments 604.28 456.17 628.74 730.39 641.09 474.35
State supplementation 178.32 186.28 175.16 75.84 186.20 188.56
  Number of awards e
Total 41,051 7,257 33,794 8,986 24,634 7,431
SOURCE: Social Security Administration, Supplemental Security Record, 100 percent data.
a. Includes 6,472,658 disabled and 65,226 blind recipients.
b. Includes 1,166,313 disabled and 13,056 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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