My former SSA colleague David Weaver writes in The Hill that benefit awards for Supplemental Security Income (SSI), a means-tested benefit for the blind, disabled and aged, have dropped significantly during the Covid recession
In May, June, and July of this year, SSA awarded 5,038, 4,572, and 5,122 elderly individuals SSI benefits, respectively. The June award figure is the smallest number of monthly awards for the elderly in the last 20 years. The May and July figures are the second and third smallest in the last 20 years. Further, the total number of awards in these three months is 42 percent lower than the number of awards to the elderly for the comparable 3-month period in 2019.
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