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<h1>Highlights and Trends</h1>
<h2>Social Security&nbsp;<span class="nobr">(Old-Age,</span> Survivors, and Disability Insurance)</h2>
<h3>Employment and Earnings</h3>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Workers in <abbr class="spell">OASDI</abbr> covered employment, 2018</th>
<td>175.9&nbsp;million</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="row">Average earnings, 2018</th>
<td>$49,864</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="rowgroup">Earnings required in 2019 for&mdash;</th>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">1&nbsp;quarter of coverage</th>
<td>$1,360</td>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">Maximum of 4&nbsp;quarters of coverage</th>
<td>$5,440</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="rowgroup">Earnings test exempt amounts for 2019</th>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">Under full retirement age for entire year</th>
<td>$17,640</td>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">For months before reaching full retirement age in 2019</th>
<td>$46,920</td>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">Beginning with month of reaching full retirement age in 2019</th>
<td>Test eliminated</td>
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<h3>Program Data</h3>
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<th class="stub0" id="r1">Cost-of-living adjustment for December&nbsp;2018</th>
<td headers="r1">2.8&nbsp;percent</td>
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<th class="stub0" id="r2">Average monthly benefit, December&nbsp;2018</th>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<th class="stub1" id="r3" headers="r2">Retired workers</th>
<td headers="r2 r3">$1,461</td>
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<th class="stub1" id="r4" headers="r2">Widows and widowers, nondisabled</th>
<td headers="r2 r4">$1,388</td>
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<th class="stub1" id="r5" headers="r2">Disabled workers</th>
<td headers="r2 r5">$1,234</td>
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<th class="stub0" id="r6">Number of beneficiaries, December&nbsp;2018</th>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<th class="stub1" id="r7" headers="r6">Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance</th>
<td headers="r6 r7">62.9&nbsp;million</td>
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<th class="stub2" id="r8" headers="r6 r7">Old-Age Insurance</th>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<th class="stub3" id="r9" headers="r6 r7 r8">Total</th>
<td headers="r6 r7 r8 r9">46.8&nbsp;million</td>
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<th class="stub3" id="r10" headers="r6 r7 r8">Retired workers</th>
<td headers="r6 r7 r8 r10">43.7&nbsp;million</td>
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<th class="stub2" id="r11" headers="r6 r7">Survivors Insurance</th>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<th class="stub3" id="r12" headers="r6 r7 r11">Total</th>
<td headers="r6 r7 r11 r12">5.9&nbsp;million</td>
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<th class="stub3" id="r13" headers="r6 r7 r11">Widows and widowers, nondisabled</th>
<td headers="r6 r7 r11 r13">3.7&nbsp;million</td>
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<th class="stub2" id="r14" headers="r6 r7">Disability Insurance</th>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<th class="stub3" id="r15" headers="r6 r7 r14">Total</th>
<td headers="r6 r7 r14 r15">10.2&nbsp;million</td>
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<th class="stub3" id="r16" headers="r6 r7 r14">Disabled workers</th>
<td headers="r6 r7 r14 r16">8.5&nbsp;million</td>
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<th class="stub0" id="r17">Benefit payments, 2018</th>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<th class="stub1" id="r18" headers="r17">Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance</th>
<td headers="r17 r18">$988.6&nbsp;billion</td>
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<th class="stub1" id="r19" headers="r17">Old-Age and Survivors Insurance</th>
<td headers="r17 r19">$844.9&nbsp;billion</td>
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<th class="stub1" id="r20" headers="r17">Disability Insurance</th>
<td headers="r17 r20">$143.7&nbsp;billion</td>
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<th class="stub0" id="r21">Administrative expenses, 2018</th>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<th class="stub1" id="r22" headers="r21">Old-Age and Survivors Insurance</th>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<th class="stub2" id="r23" headers="r21 r22">Amount</th>
<td headers="r21 r22 r23">$3.8&nbsp;billion</td>
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<th class="stub2" id="r24" headers="r21 r22">As a percentage of total benefits paid</th>
<td headers="r21 r22 r24">0.4&nbsp;percent</td>
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<th class="stub1" id="r25" headers="r21">Disability Insurance</th>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<th class="stub2" id="r26" headers="r21 r25">Amount</th>
<td headers="r21 r25 r26">$2.9&nbsp;billion</td>
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<th class="stub2" id="r27" headers="r21 r25">As a percentage of total benefits paid</th>
<td headers="r21 r25 r27">2.0&nbsp;percent</td>
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<h3>Program Trends</h3>
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<li>About 62.9&nbsp;million persons received Social Security benefits for December&nbsp;2018, an increase of 1,002,862 (1.6&nbsp;percent) since December&nbsp;2017. Almost 75&nbsp;percent were retired workers and their spouses and children, 9&nbsp;percent were survivors of deceased workers, and 16&nbsp;percent were disabled workers and their spouses and children.</li>
<li>Sixty-nine percent of the 43.7&nbsp;million retired workers received reduced benefits because of entitlement prior to full retirement age. Relatively more women (71.4&nbsp;percent) than men (65.6&nbsp;percent) received reduced benefits.</li>
<li>The number of beneficiaries aged&nbsp;65 or older rose from about 40.8&nbsp;million in 2013 to about 47.1&nbsp;million in 2018 (15.4&nbsp;percent). The number of beneficiaries aged&nbsp;85 or older increased by about 4.3&nbsp;percent during the <span class="nobr">5-year</span> period from about 5.5&nbsp;million in 2013 to about 5.8&nbsp;million in 2018. In 2018, about 68,000&nbsp;centenarians were Social Security beneficiaries.</li>
<li>About 26.1&nbsp;million women aged&nbsp;65 or older received benefits for December&nbsp;2018. About 14.0&nbsp;million (53.7&nbsp;percent) were entitled solely to a retired-worker benefit. About 6.8&nbsp;million (26.0&nbsp;percent) were dually entitled to a retired-worker benefit and a wife's or widow's benefit, and about 5.3&nbsp;million (20.3&nbsp;percent) were receiving wife's or widow's benefits only.</li>
<li>About 2.9&nbsp;million children under age&nbsp;18 received benefits, including 1,182,080&nbsp;children of deceased workers, 1,337,019&nbsp;children of disabled workers, and 339,202&nbsp;children of retired workers.</li>
<li>About 9.9&nbsp;million persons received benefits based on disability&mdash;8,537,332 disabled workers, 1,127,181 disabled adult children, and 254,581 disabled widows and widowers. In addition, 118,514 spouses and 1,382,920 minor and student children of disabled workers received benefits.</li>
<li>Average monthly benefits for December&nbsp;2018, including the 2.8&nbsp;percent cost-of-living adjustment, were $1,461 for retired workers, $1,234 for disabled workers, and $1,388 for nondisabled widows and widowers. Among retired workers, monthly benefits averaged $1,627 for men and $1,297 for women. For disabled workers, average monthly benefits were $1,360 for men and $1,104 for women.</li>
<li>Average monthly family benefits for December&nbsp;2018 were $2,503 for a widowed mother or father and children; $2,168 for a disabled worker, wife, and children; and $3,032 for a retired worker, wife, and&nbsp;children.</li>
<li>Total <abbr class="spell">OASDI</abbr> benefit payments for calendar year 2018 were $988.6&nbsp;billion. Payments from the <abbr class="spell">OASI</abbr> trust fund were $844.9&nbsp;billion&mdash;an increase of 5.8&nbsp;percent from the $798.7&nbsp;billion paid in 2017.</li>
<li>Benefit payments from the <abbr class="spell">DI</abbr> trust fund, from which benefits are paid to disabled workers, their spouses, and children, increased by 0.7&nbsp;percent from $142.8&nbsp;billion in 2017 to $143.7&nbsp;billion in 2018.</li>
<li><abbr class="spell">OASDI</abbr> benefit awards in calendar year 2018 totaled 5,597,369, including 3,082,080 to retired workers, 585,178 to their spouses and children, and 890,530 to survivors of insured workers. Benefits were awarded to 686,723 disabled workers and to 352,858 of their spouses and children.</li>
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<h2>Supplemental Security Income</h2>
<h3>Annual Payment Adjustments</h3>
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<th class="stub0" scope="rowgroup">Monthly federal benefit rate, effective January&nbsp;2019</th>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">Individual living in his or her own household</th>
<td>$771</td>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">Couple with both members eligible</th>
<td>$1,157</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="rowgroup">Cost-of-living adjustment</th>
<td>2.8&nbsp;percent</td>
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<h3>Program Data</h3>
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<th class="stub0" scope="rowgroup">Federally administered payments</th>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">Benefits paid in 2018</th>
<td>$54.8&nbsp;billion</td>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">Number of recipients, December&nbsp;2018</th>
<td>8.1&nbsp;million</td>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">Average benefit, December&nbsp;2018</th>
<td>$550.86</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="rowgroup">Federal <abbr class="spell">SSI</abbr> payments</th>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">Benefits paid in 2018</th>
<td>$52.2&nbsp;billion</td>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">Number of recipients, December&nbsp;2018</th>
<td>8.0&nbsp;million</td>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">Average benefit, December&nbsp;2018</th>
<td>$534.67</td>
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<th class="stub0" scope="rowgroup">Federally administered state supplementation</th>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">Benefits paid in 2018</th>
<td>$2.6&nbsp;billion</td>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">Number of recipients, December&nbsp;2018</th>
<td><sup>a</sup>&nbsp;1.5&nbsp;million</td>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">Average benefit, December&nbsp;2018</th>
<td>$145.53</td>
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<td class="onlyNote" colspan="2">a. Includes almost 1.5&nbsp;million persons receiving federal <abbr class="spell">SSI</abbr> and state supplementation and almost 0.2&nbsp;million persons receiving state supplementation only.</td>
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<h3>Program Trends</h3>
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<li>In December&nbsp;2018, 8,128,652&nbsp;persons received federally administered <abbr class="spell">SSI</abbr> payments&mdash;99,024 fewer than the previous year. Of the total, 2,266,380 (27.9&nbsp;percent) were aged&nbsp;65 or older; 4,714,234 (58.0&nbsp;percent) were blind or disabled aged&nbsp;<span class="nobr">18&ndash;64;</span> and 1,148,038 (14.1&nbsp;percent) were blind or disabled under&nbsp;age&nbsp;18.</li>
<li>The number of blind or disabled aged&nbsp;<span class="nobr">18&ndash;64</span> declined by 90,878 (1.9&nbsp;percent) between December&nbsp;2017 and December&nbsp;2018, and the number under age&nbsp;18 decreased by 34,555 (2.9&nbsp;percent).</li>
<li>During 2018, 718,069&nbsp;persons were awarded federally administered payments, a decrease of 47,975 from the previous year. Of the 2018 awards, 460,289 went to blind or disabled recipients aged&nbsp;<span class="nobr">18&ndash;64,</span> 156,755 to those blind or disabled under age&nbsp;18, and 101,025 to recipients aged&nbsp;65 or older.</li>
<li>Total federally administered <abbr class="spell">SSI</abbr> payments were $54.8&nbsp;billion in 2018, up 0.6&nbsp;percent from 2017. Federal <abbr class="spell">SSI</abbr> payments in 2018 were $52.2&nbsp;billion (an&nbsp;increase of 0.7&nbsp;percent over the previous year). Federally administered state supplementation totaled $2.6&nbsp;billion.</li>
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<h2>Poverty Data</h2>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">Individual, aged&nbsp;65 or older</th>
<td>$12,043</td>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">Couple, householder aged&nbsp;65 or older</th>
<td>$15,193</td>
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<th class="stub1" scope="row">Family of four</th>
<td>$25,701</td>
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