SSI Monthly Statistics, February 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, February 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 7,414,114 1,191,813 6,222,301 1,005,824 3,933,006 2,475,284
Federal payment only 6,089,586 790,321 5,299,265 896,157 3,396,665 1,796,764
Federal payment and state supplementation 1,193,947 351,911 842,036 108,741 491,283 593,923
State supplementation only 130,581 49,581 81,000 926 45,058 84,597
Total with—  
Federal payment 7,283,533 1,142,232 6,141,301 1,004,898 3,887,948 2,390,687
State supplementation 1,324,528 401,492 923,036 109,667 536,341 678,520
Also receiving OASDI benefits 2,542,364 679,403 1,862,961 56,485 1,071,886 1,413,993
  Total payments c (thousands of dollars)
Total 5,609,604 700,826 4,908,778 912,160 3,219,460 1,477,984
Federal payments 5,316,500 609,946 4,706,554 901,661 3,092,109 1,322,729
State supplementation 293,104 90,880 202,224 10,498 127,351 155,255
  Average monthly payment d (dollars)
Total 715.38 580.45 741.21 836.84 762.49 591.12
Federal payments 689.42 526.88 719.64 828.11 740.68 547.76
State supplementation 212.75 223.17 208.22 87.08 222.01 225.78
  Number of awards e
Total 53,029 9,465 43,564 12,611 30,615 9,803
SOURCE: Social Security Administration, Supplemental Security Record, 100 percent data.
a. Includes 6,158,581 disabled and 63,720 blind recipients.
b. Includes 1,270,334 disabled and 13,137 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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