Almost half of Americans
receive some kind of federal benefit. Just over a third live in a household receiving help from at least one means-tested program.
The US Census Survey of Income and Program Participation reports on people by receipt of benefits from selected programs: monthly averages, April, May, June, 2011.
The figures for means-tested programs include anyone
residing in a household in which one or more people received benefits from the program. |
| |
|
| |
Percent |
| All people |
100.0 |
| |
|
| Received benefits from one or
more programs |
49.0 |
| Social Security |
16.2 |
| Railroad Retirement |
0.1 |
| Veterans' compensation |
1.0 |
| Unemployment compensation |
1.7 |
| Workers' compensation |
0.2 |
| Veterans' educational assistance |
-- |
| Medicare |
14.9 |
| One or more means-tested programs |
35.1 |
| Public or subsidized rental housing |
4.5 |
| Federal Supplemental Security Income
(SSI) |
6.5 |
| Food stamps |
15.8 |
| Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
(TANF) |
2.0 |
| Other cash assistance |
1.8 |
| Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) |
7.5 |
| Medicaid |
26.4 |
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