Posts Tagged ‘Facts About Social Security’
- SSA paid benefits to about 54.7 million people in 2007
- Social Security provided at least half the income for 64 percent of the aged in 2006
- Social Security benefits were awarded to about 4.7 million people in 2007
- Women accounted for 56 percent of adult Social Security beneficiaries in 2007
- The average age of disabled-worker beneficiaries was 52.4 in 2007
- Eighty-four percent of SSI recipients received payments because of disability or blindness in 2007