Annual Statistical Supplement, 2024: “The Supplement includes more than 200 tables that provide comprehensive statistics on Social Security and Supplemental Security Income. The tables cover program details such as the number of beneficiaries, amounts of benefits, and the status of the trust funds. Narrative sections describe the programs’ legislative history and program rules.”

Monthly Statistical Snapshot, November 2024: “A monthly snapshot of statistics on Social Security beneficiaries and Supplemental Security Income recipients.”

SSI Monthly Statistics, November 2024: “These monthly tables provide statistics for federally administered payments and awards under the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program.”

OASDI Beneficiaries by State and ZIP Code, 2022 (released December 2024): “An annual publication focusing on the Social Security beneficiary population at the ZIP Code level in tables showing the number and type of beneficiaries and the amount of benefits paid in each state, Social Security Administration field office, and ZIP Code. It also shows the number of beneficiaries aged 65 or older.”

Mortality by Career-Average Earnings Level, December 2024, Actuarial Study No. 129. 

The Role of Continuing Disability Reviews in Child Supplemental Security Income Program Participation Patterns, by Jeffrey Hemmeter, Michael Levere, David C. Wittenburg. “This article examines how child Supplemental Security Income (SSI) participation is affected over time by variation in the frequency with which the Social Security Administration conducts medical continuing disability reviews (CDRs). The authors use administrative data to explore whether the characteristics of children who underwent a CDR varied over time and to track the numbers of those whose payments were ceased because of a CDR and who later returned to SSI. They also conduct a policy simulation to estimate how the child SSI caseload might have differed with more consistent annual CDR volumes. The authors find that the characteristics of child SSI recipients are not greatly affected by CDR volumes, few children return to SSI following a CDR cessation, and varying CDR frequencies can explain the majority of child SSI caseload changes in recent years.”

The Effects of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 on Vocational Rehabilitation Engagement, Employment, and Work Incentive Use Among Supplemental Security Income Recipients Aged 14–24, by Isabel Musse, Todd Honeycutt, Jeffrey Hemmeter. “The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) of 2014 requires state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies to offer preemployment transition services (pre-ETS) to students with disabilities. Using data for 2010–2021 from the Social Security Administration and the Department of Education’s Rehabilitation Services Administration, the authors show that youths aged 14–24 with disabilities who receive Supplemental Security Income payments were more likely to apply for VR services, sign individualized plans for employment, and have higher annual earnings after WIOA enactment than before. The access to pre-ETS that WIOA provided likely contributed to higher youth engagement with VR and may be associated with better employment outcomes.”

Preliminary Estimates of the Number of U.S. Workers Using a New Methodology for Assigning Geographic and Demographic Information in Administrative Data Records: Research and Statistics Note No. 2024-02, by Michael Compson. “The Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics (ORES) in the Social Security Administration (SSA) is developing a new process to generate estimates of the employment and earnings of U.S. workers with taxable Social Security and Medicare earnings that appear in two annual statistical publications. The new methodology will enable ORES to identify demographic information and state of residence for a vastly expanded sample of workers, which would permit the inclusion of numerous county-level estimates that currently must be suppressed in the published tables. This note compares preliminary estimates of worker counts by sex, age, and type of earnings (wage and salary, self-employment) using the new methodology against benchmark worker count estimates from SSA’s Office of the Chief Actuary and from selected tables in current ORES statistical publications. It also explores the potential addition of maps and new tables to those annual publications.”