The Disability Fund benefits paid out in the United States remained consistent between 2014 and 2022 after increasing rapidly during the 1990s and early-2000s. The benefits paid by the DI Trust Fund amounted to approximately 143.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2022. The DI Trust Fund pays Social Security benefits to those who are mentally or physically unable to work. Approximately 13 percent of the U.S. population has a disability.
Annual benefits paid by Disability Insurance Trust Fund in the United States from 1980 to 2022
(in billion U.S. dollars)
The amounts of benefits paid generally do not reflect occasional adjustments such as reimbursements for uncashed checks, reimbursements to correct earlier accounting errors, and inter-fund transfers to correct earlier allocation errors.
Figures have been rounded.
Release date is the date the database was accessed.
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US Social Security Administration. (April 29, 2023). Annual benefits paid by Disability Insurance Trust Fund in the United States from 1980 to 2022 (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/195488/total-cash-benefits-paid-by-disability-insurance-annually/
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