SSI CASE CLOSURES

In 1990, about 800,000 persons receiving payments from the Supplementa l Security Income (SSI) program had their cases closed and their payme nts stopped. The most frequently cited reasons for these case closures were excess income and death. Of those cases closed for reasons other than death, about 43 percent eventually returned to payment status. T his study presents an analysis of a 1-percent sample of SSI recipients whose cases were closed during 1990. Longitudinal data on closures we re collected by merging a series of monthly 1-percent sample files con taining SSI administrative data. These are the first published data on reasons for SSI case closures.