SSI Monthly Statistics, January 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, January 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 7,392,700 1,189,602 6,203,098 992,220 3,930,390 2,470,090
Federal payment only 6,069,833 788,371 5,281,462 883,809 3,393,993 1,792,031
Federal payment and state supplementation 1,190,955 350,898 840,057 107,453 490,941 592,561
State supplementation only 131,912 50,333 81,579 958 45,456 85,498
Total with—  
Federal payment 7,260,788 1,139,269 6,121,519 991,262 3,884,934 2,384,592
State supplementation 1,322,867 401,231 921,636 108,411 536,397 678,059
Also receiving OASDI benefits 2,537,088 678,765 1,858,323 56,082 1,069,593 1,411,413
  Total payments c (thousands of dollars)
Total 5,536,901 693,621 4,843,280 883,843 3,186,313 1,466,745
Federal payments 5,245,324 603,170 4,642,155 873,547 3,059,645 1,312,133
State supplementation 291,577 90,451 201,125 10,296 126,668 154,612
  Average monthly payment d (dollars)
Total 714.37 578.99 740.35 834.72 762.14 590.16
Federal payments 688.42 525.64 718.76 825.95 740.34 546.90
State supplementation 212.93 223.09 208.50 87.32 222.12 225.73
  Number of awards e
Total 45,690 8,550 37,140 11,528 25,326 8,836
SOURCE: Social Security Administration, Supplemental Security Record, 100 percent data.
a. Includes 6,139,587 disabled and 63,511 blind recipients.
b. Includes 1,267,361 disabled and 13,127 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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