title: Prevalence, characteristics, and poverty status of Supplemental Security Income multirecipients.
abstract: "Multirecipients" are people who receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments while living with other recipients (not including an SSI-eligible spouse). Using Social Security Administration records matched to Current Population Survey data for 2005, this article examines multirecipients' personal, family, household, and economic characteristics. I find that no more than 20 percent of the 2005 SSI population were multirecipients. Most multirecipients were adults, lived with one other recipient, and/or shared their homes with related recipients. Multirecipients were generally less likely to be poor than SSI recipients as a whole; but those who were children, lived with one other recipient, and/or shared their homes with a nonrecipient were more likely to be poor. Implementing sliding-scale SSI benefit reductions for children in multirecipient households would affect about 23 percent of multirecipients, or about 5 percent of all SSI recipients.
authors.affiliation: Office of Program Development and Research, Social Security Administration, Washington, DC 20254, USA.
authors.forename: Joyce
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nicholas
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000385:Aid to Families with Dependent Children / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002648:Child; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005191:Family Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D011203:Poverty / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012943:Social Security / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States; D019131:United States Social Security Administration / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D055815:Young Adult