SSA
paid benefits to about 54 million people in 2006
About 16 percent of the total U.S. population and 90 percent of
the population aged 65 or older received Social Security benefits
in 2005
Social Security provided at least half the income for 65 percent
of the aged in 2005
Social Security benefits were awarded to about 4.6 million people
in 2006
Women accounted for 56 percent of adult Social Security beneficiaries
in 2006
The average age of disabled-worker beneficiaries was 52.1 in 2006
Eighty-three percent of SSI recipients received payments because
of disability or blindness in 2006
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