Each year Social Security provides statistics broken down by congressional districts of how many people in each state are receiving Social Security benefits and what type of benefits they are receiving. These statistics look at the two different Social Security programs, the Old- Age (retirement), Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
The OASDI program provides monthly benefits to an eligible worker and family members when the worker elects to start receiving retirement benefits or when the worker dies or becomes disabled. A worker’s lifetime covered earnings largely determine the amount of benefits received. The SSI program is federal cash assistance program that provides monthly payments to low-income aged, blind, or disabled people in all 50 states, Washington D.C. and the Northern Mariana Islands.
The 2018 statistics showed that slightly more than 1 million Minnesotans received OASDI benefits and more than 93,000 Minnesotans received SSI benefits. Below is a more complete breakdown of what types of benefits are being paid to Minnesotans.
OASDI
Retired Workers: 761,515
Disabled Workers: 120,283
Widowed and Parents: 55,988
Spouses: 36,706
Children: 58,205
SSI
Aged: 11,102
Blind: 765
Disabled: 81,650
Children: 12,557
Social Security releases these statistics annually for each of the 50 states. To take a closer look at the 2018 statistics of all 50 states click here.
