Did You Know That…
– SSA paid benefits to about 60.4 million people in 2011
– Social Security provided at least half the income for 65 percent of the aged beneficiaries in 2010
– Social Security benefits were awarded to about 5.6 million people in 2011
– Women accounted for 56 percent of adult Social Security beneficiaries in 2011
– The average age of disabled-worker beneficiaries was 53.0 in 2011
– Eighty-five percent of SSI recipients received payments because of disability or blindness in 2011