LIVING ARRANGEMENTS OF SSI RECIPIENTS

This article updates one that appeared in the Bulletin in July 1990. I t describes living arrangements of persons receiving payments under th e Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program from October 1994 through September 1995. The data were taken from the Quality Assurance review conducted by the Social Security Administration (SSA). This procedure is used by SSA to determine the frequency and causes of incorrect det erminations of eligibility and payment amounts. It is difficult to des cribe the living arrangement for the ''typical'' recipient. Neverthele ss, some interesting patterns emerge in an analysis of the data. About 59 percent (owners and renters combined) of the 6.3 million SSI recip ients lived in their own households. Approximately 32 percent of them shared a living arrangement with someone else and about 5 percent of t he recipients lived in an institution. Of those SSI recipients Living in households, about 36 percent lived alone. Less than 13 percent live d with only their spouses or with only their spouses and minor childre n. Approximately 11 percent of those in households were child recipien ts living with parents. An additional 15 percent of the SSI recipients lived in households with only other related adults (other than a spou se or parents).