Adult OASDI Beneficiaries and SSI Recipients Who Need Representative Payees: Projections for 2025 and 2035

Article Publication Date:

5/18/2015

Summary:

For Social Security beneficiaries and Supplemental Security Income recipients who are not capable of managing their own benefit payments, the Social Security Administration (SSA) pays benefits to a representative payee. The authors estimate that the demand for representative payees will increase from 2.94 million beneficiaries in 2013 to 3.27 million by 2025 and to 3.56 million by 2035.

Article Author:

Anguelov, Chris E.; Ravida, Gabriella; Weathers II, Robert R.

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Types/Tools:

Data; Policy alerts, briefs, letters & papers; Reports

Populations:

Aging/Older Adults; Developmental/Intellectual Disabilities; Physical Disabilities; Psychiatric Disabilities/Mental Illness

Sources:

AARP Public Policy Institute

Programs/Initiatives:

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