title: SSI: characteristics of persons receiving federally administered State supplementation only.
abstract: This article summarizes the demographic and economic characteristics of the half million persons on the rolls of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program in January 1981 whose only payment was a federally administered State supplement. All of these persons were ineligible for a Federal SSI payment because their countable income from other sources exceeded $258 (the Federal benefit rate plus the $20 Federal income disregard). The data indicate that 62 percent of these persons resided in California; nearly 75 percent were aged 65 or older; 81 percent were white; and 65 percent were women. Almost all of these persons received a monthly Social Security benefit, which averaged $286. The average monthly State supplementary payment for the members of this group was $84.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001766:Blindness; D003710:Demography; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors; D012943:Social Security; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States; D044465:White People