Social Insurance and Public Assistance

SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAMS Series Bf649–662 803
Earlier estimates Later estimates
Temporary Assistance to
Needy Families/Aid to
Aid to the Institutional Aid to the
Aid to Families with Families with
Permanently services, Permanently Emergency
Dependent Children Dependent Children
Old-Age Aid to and Totally General intermediate- Old-Age Aid to and Totally General assistance
Assistance the Blind Disabled Per family Per person assistance care facilities Assistance the Blind Disabled Per family Per person assistance (per family)
Bf649 1 Bf650 1 Bf651 1 Bf652 Bf653 Bf654 2 Bf655 Bf656 1 Bf657 1 Bf658 1 Bf659 Bf660 Bf661 Bf662 3
Year Dollars Dollars Dollars Dollars Dollars Dollars Dollars Dollars Dollars Dollars Dollars Dollars Dollars Dollars
1975 — — — — — — — 20.74 15.22 14.67 219.44 67.65 98.40 168.85
1976 — — — — — — — 21.01 15.78 14.98 236.10 74.75 109.56 168.43
1977 — — — — — — — 21.75 16.91 15.94 246.27 79.97 119.74 168.05
1978 — — — — — — — 22.31 18.59 16.72 253.89 84.60 126.62 195.24
1979 — — — — — — — 41.52 39.35 38.02 262.86 89.45 128.84 195.92
1980 — — — — — — — 39.18 35.85 34.61 280.03 96.49 127.18 194.29
1981 — — — — — — — 41.18 42.97 39.57 282.04 97.64 — 209.51
1982 — — — — — — — 35.53 36.94 36.57 303.02 103.60 — 278.54
1983 — — — — — — — 35.99 36.45 36.85 312.82 107.16 — 283.15
1984 — — — — — — — 36.18 37.28 37.41 325.44 111.60 — 276.97
1985 — — — — — — — 35.97 38.91 37.61 342.15 116.65 — 312.98
1986 — — — — — — — 36.02 38.65 37.78 355.04 121.05 — 362.45
1987 — — — — — — — 36.07 39.78 37.71 361.37 123.73 — 358.29
1988 — — — — — — — 35.90 38.86 37.99 374.07 128.47 — 420.89
1989 — — — — — — — 35.59 41.80 38.71 383.14 132.40 — 461.45
1990 — — — — — — — 42.18 41.32 39.92 391.67 135.86 — 476.50
1991 — — — — — — — 55.19 55.97 57.98 390.44 134.89 — 422.07
1992 — — — — — — — 37.66 38.45 39.05 373.71 131.03 — 431.41
1993 — — — — — — — 44.88 39.63 41.43 377.24 133.10 — 568.17
1994 — — — — — — — 48.76 39.22 40.50 377.78 134.30 — 1,105.95
1995 — — — — — — — 43.13 37.58 41.15 375.31 134.21 — 3,415.93
1996 — — — — — — — 43.58 37.57 40.36 386.10 139.23 — 3,033.42
1997 — — — — — — — — — — 490.01 176.95 — 410.74
1 Beginning in 1974, includes only Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. The Supplemental Security Income
(SSI) program superseded these programs elsewhere.
2 For 1936–1950, as of December of each year.
3 For 1983–1997, excludes family count and expenditures for states providing only partial data.
Sources
Series Bf649–654, 1950–1975: U.S. Social Security Administration, Social Security Bulletin, Annual Statistical
Supplement (1974), Table 155; 1936–1949: Social Security Bulletin, Annual Statistical Supplement
(1966), Table 113, p. 115. Series Bf655–661, U.S. Social Security Administration, Social Security Bulletin,
Annual Statistical Supplement (1999), Table 9.G1, p. 342, Table 9.K1, p. 351, and Table 9.L1,
p. 352.
Documentation
See the text for Tables Bf621–648 for more information about the public assistance programs.
This table reports two sets of alternative series. In 1976, the Social Security Administration stated
that the data in series Bf656–661 are not comparable with series Bf649–654 because of a change in
source (p. 200). Although not identical, the series are very closely related. The correlations between the
two versions of the series for the overlapping years of 1936, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955, and 1960–1973
are 0.998 for Old-Age Assistance, 0.999 for Aid to the Blind, and 0.998 for Aid to the Permanently
and Totally Disabled. The correlations for overlapping years of 1936, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955, and
1960–1974 are 0.977 for Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) per family, 0.998 for AFDC
per recipient, and 0.999 for general assistance.
All series include nonmedical vendor payments.