Social Security Benefits
Social Security: Some Basic Data
Fact Sheet
Laurel Beedon, AARP Public Policy Institute
Charles Ford, AARP Public Policy Institute
April 2000
This updated fact sheet by Laurel Beedon of PPI provides 1999 data on: who receives Social Security benefits -- their gender, age, and beneficiary status; how much beneficiaries receive; how Social Security affects the incomes of people age 65 and older; who pays for Social Security, and how much. (2 pages)
Pub ID: FS78