The Social Security Administration (SSA) is an independent agency in the executive branch headed by the commissioner of Social Security. It is responsible for administering Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), which are the nation's primary income support programs for older adults and individuals with disabilities. SSA is also responsible for supporting the administration of a number of non-SSA programs and activities, such as portions of Medicare. In FY2024, SSA employed about 58,000 federal workers and funded about 14,000 state disability determination services (DDS) employees to carry out its programs and other administrative responsibilities.1 The agency operates more than 1,500 offices across the country and around the world. SSA is headquartered in Woodlawn, MD, outside of Baltimore.
This report provides selected data on SSA's historical and recent staffing levels (including state DDS staffing levels) across a number of different metrics. The historical and recent periods used in this report are based, in part, on the public availability of data for each metric.
Figure 1 shows SSA total staff on duty at the end of the fiscal year for FY1964-FY2024. This metric includes full-time, part-time, and temporary employees.
Figure 1. SSA Total Staff on Duty at the End of the Fiscal Year FY1964-FY2024 |
Sources: Office of Personnel Management, "FedScope," https://www.fedscope.opm.gov/; Social Security Advisory Board, How the Social Security Administration Can Improve Its Service to the Public, September 1999, Table 1, p. 22, https://www.ssab.gov/research/how-the-social-security-administration-can-improve-its-service-to-the-public/; various Social Security Administration responses to questions for the record; and Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Annual Report, 1967, December 1967, and earlier editions. Note: See Table A-1 in the Appendix for the underlying data, as well as additional years of data. |
Figure 2 shows SSA full-time permanent staff on duty at the end of the fiscal year for FY1967-FY2024.
Figure 2. SSA Full-Time Permanent Staff on Duty at the End of the Fiscal Year FY1967-FY2024 |
Sources: Social Security Administration (SSA), Annual Statistical Supplement, 2024, December 2024, Table 2.F3, https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/supplement/, and earlier editions; SSA, Annual Report to the Congress, 1994, July 1994, and earlier editions; and Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Annual Report, 1970, December 1970. Note: See Table A-1 in the Appendix for the underlying data. |
Figure 3 shows SSA total work years for FY1964-FY2024. According to SSA, a work year "is a measure of time spent doing work or being paid for some element of time (e.g., leave). It is the equivalent of one person working for one year (2,080 hours) and may consist of regular hours, overtime, or lump sum leave, which is payment for unused annual leave upon leaving the agency."2 Work years include work performed by full-time, part-time, and temporary employees. SSA calculates total work years as the sum of full-time equivalent (FTE) employment and overtime and lump-sum leave (i.e., the number of FTE employees plus the number of overtime and lump-sum leave work years).
Figure 3 displays two types of work-year metrics across two partially overlapping periods: LAE-only activities (FY1964-FY1997) and all activities (FY1975-FY2024). The metric LAE-only activities includes only those work years that are attributable to SSA's Limitation on Administrative Expenses (LAE) account or equivalent historical account. The LAE account is SSA's primary administrative appropriations account and funds SSA's activities related to Social Security, SSI, and portions of Medicare.3 The metric all activities includes LAE work years in addition to work years that are attributable to reimbursable work,4 SSA's Office of the Inspector General (OIG),5 special temporary workloads,6 and, prior to FY1998, certain other programs and activities for which SSA had administrative responsibilities.7
Figure 3. SSA Total Work Years, by Type FY1964-FY2024 (Selected Years) |
Sources: Social Security Administration (SSA), Annual Statistical Supplement, 2024, Table 2.F3, https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/supplement/, and earlier editions; SSA, Justification of Estimates for Appropriations Committees for Fiscal Year 2026, May 2025, https://www.ssa.gov/budget/, and earlier editions; SSA, Annual Report to the Congress, 1994, and earlier editions; various SSA responses to questions for the record; and Bureau of the Budget, Appendix, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 1966, January 1965. Notes: LAE = Limitation on Administrative Expenses. See Table A-1 in the Appendix for the underlying data, as well as additional years of data for LAE-Only Activities. |
Figure 4 shows state DDS total staff on duty at the end of the fiscal year for FY2008-FY2024. State DDSs are state agencies that conduct disability determinations and reviews on behalf of, and under agreements with, SSA. State DDS personnel are state employees, and their salaries and related activities are fully funded by SSA, subject to certain conditions.8
Figure 4. State Disability Determination Services (DDS) Total Staff on Duty at the End of the Fiscal Year FY2008-FY2024 |
Sources: Social Security Administration (SSA), SSA Weekly Operational Report Meeting, April 25, 2025, slide 26, https://web.archive.org/web/20250429140916/https://www.ssa.gov/news/assets/materials/wor/2025-04-25.pdf; SSA, "Total State DDS Employees by State FY2010 to FY2023," https://www.ssa.gov/foia/resources/proactivedisclosure/2025/Total%20State%20DDS%20Employees%20by%20State%20FY2010%20to%20FY2023.xlsx (Excel spreadsheet); and SSA, Office of the Inspector General, The Social Security Administration's Progress in Reducing the Initial Disability Claims Backlog, April 2014, Table 1, p. 5, https://oig-files.ssa.gov/audits/full/A-07-13-13073_0.pdf. Note: See Table A-1 in the Appendix for the underlying data. |
Figure 5 shows state DDS total work years for FY1979-FY2024.
Figure 5. State DDS Total Work Years FY1979-FY2024 |
Sources: Social Security Administration (SSA), Justification of Estimates for Appropriations Committees for Fiscal Year 2026, and earlier editions; various SSA responses to questions for the record; and General Accounting Office (now the Government Accountability Office), Social Security: Increasing Number of Disability Claims and Deteriorating Service, HRD-94-11, November 1993, Figure 1.1, p. 9, https://www.gao.gov/products/hrd-94-11. Note: See Table A-1 in the Appendix for the underlying data. |
See Table A-1 in the Appendix for the data underlying the figures shown in this section, additional years of data for certain metrics, and historical data on FTEs.
Table 1 shows estimated SSA staff on duty from agency contingency plans, by office, for 2018-2024. The staff counts are estimated for the end of September or the beginning of October of the year shown using actual staff counts from July or August of that year. Entries for some offices are blank (i.e.,—) because the office did not exist at the time. Because SSA underwent several reorganizations in 2025, some of the offices shown in the table may no longer exist, and their staff and functions may have been transferred to other offices.9
Office |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
Total |
61,663 |
63,203 |
62,987 |
62,971 |
61,757 |
61,869 |
59,058 |
Actuary |
57 |
56 |
50 |
51 |
50 |
50 |
51 |
Analytics, Review, and Oversight |
2,086 |
2,307 |
1,996 |
1,939 |
1,964 |
1,945 |
1,920 |
Budget, Finance, and Management |
931 |
916 |
880 |
884 |
891 |
870 |
859 |
Commissioner |
25 |
31 |
27 |
29 |
27 |
28 |
32 |
Communications |
155 |
146 |
142 |
141 |
148 |
150 |
144 |
Hearings Operations |
9,664 |
9,386 |
8,370 |
8,156 |
7,675 |
8,086 |
7,471 |
General Counsel |
723 |
747 |
724 |
741 |
758 |
744 |
722 |
Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity (CREO) |
— |
— |
— |
— |
67 |
143 |
148 |
Human Resources (HR) |
412 |
413 |
381 |
420 |
416 |
845 |
854 |
HR/CREO—Reasonable Accommodations |
203 |
216 |
212 |
218 |
213 |
213 |
213 |
Inspector General |
493 |
529 |
542 |
523 |
529 |
534 |
515 |
Legislation and Congressional Affairs |
54 |
56 |
58 |
58 |
59 |
60 |
60 |
Operations |
43,221 |
44,694 |
45,927 |
46,131 |
45,129 |
44,316 |
42,250 |
Retirement and Disability Policy |
533 |
525 |
495 |
489 |
493 |
482 |
504 |
Systems/Chief Information Officer |
3,106 |
3,181 |
3,183 |
3,191 |
3,338 |
3,403 |
3,303 |
Transformation |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
12 |
Source: Social Security Administration agency contingency plans for 2018-2024.
Notes: "—" = not applicable. The office Operations includes field offices, teleservice centers, regional offices, program service centers, and the Office of Central Operations.
Table 2 shows FTE employees, by component, for FY2019-FY2024. As discussed earlier, some agency components shown below may no longer exist due to organizational changes in 2025.
Component |
FY2019 |
FY2020 |
FY2021 |
FY2022 |
FY2023 |
FY2024 |
SSA Total (Excluding OIG) |
60,470 |
59,573 |
59,195 |
57,568 |
58,485 |
57,998 |
Field Offices |
27,358 |
27,230 |
27,251 |
26,997 |
27,673 |
26,839 |
Teleservice Centers |
4,307 |
4,567 |
4,790 |
4,167 |
4,078 |
3,947 |
Regional Offices |
1,348 |
1,309 |
1,281 |
1,347 |
1,221 |
1,396 |
Program Service Centers and Office of Central Operations |
9,467 |
9,463 |
9,548 |
9,345 |
9,348 |
9,214 |
Office of Hearings Operations |
9,335 |
8,549 |
7,970 |
7,553 |
7,465 |
7,512 |
Office of Systems/Chief Information Officer |
3,084 |
3,048 |
3,138 |
3,074 |
3,285 |
3,293 |
Office of Analytics, Review, and Oversight |
2,107 |
2,050 |
1,928 |
1,834 |
1,869 |
1,923 |
Office of General Counsel |
720 |
691 |
721 |
704 |
698 |
713 |
Headquarters |
2,744 |
2,667 |
2,567 |
2,547 |
2,848 |
3,161 |
State DDS |
13,149 |
12,780 |
13,421 |
13,462 |
13,166 |
13,424 |
OIG |
508 |
519 |
499 |
479 |
500 |
508 |
Source: Social Security Administration (SSA), Justification of Estimates for Appropriations Committees for Fiscal Year 2026, and earlier editions.
Notes: DDS = Disability Determination Services. OIG = Office of the Inspector General. Subtotals may not sum to totals due to rounding. The SSA FTE data for FY2023 and FY2024 include reimbursable work. (The SSA FTE data in Table A-1 in the Appendix exclude reimbursable work.)
Table 3 shows SSA total staff on duty, by state or area, for September 2018-2024 and March 2025. The data reflect SSA employees in pay status at the end of the applicable period and are grouped by the state or area in which each employee's official duty station is located (as defined by the Office of Personnel Management). In some cases, the data are suppressed due to small cell size or certain other reasons. In other cases, the data are not reported for a given period.
State or Area |
Sept. 2018 |
Sept. 2019 |
Sept. 2020 |
Sept. 2021 |
Sept. 2022 |
Sept. 2023 |
Sept. 2024 |
Mar. 2025 |
All Areas |
62,519 |
61,991 |
61,447 |
59,808 |
57,754 |
61,410 |
58,409 |
56,263 |
50 States and DC |
62,092 |
61,576 |
61,053 |
59,423 |
57,368 |
60,960 |
57,898 |
55,776 |
Alabama |
2,494 |
2,433 |
2,554 |
2,525 |
2,341 |
2,600 |
2,545 |
2,459 |
Alaska |
47 |
45 |
42 |
37 |
42 |
40 |
39 |
37 |
Arizona |
709 |
707 |
699 |
669 |
647 |
694 |
635 |
634 |
Arkansas |
451 |
448 |
436 |
433 |
432 |
445 |
422 |
410 |
California |
6,138 |
6,175 |
6,126 |
5,892 |
5,774 |
6,199 |
5,773 |
5,600 |
Colorado |
695 |
671 |
681 |
662 |
628 |
670 |
628 |
600 |
Connecticut |
343 |
339 |
338 |
327 |
320 |
359 |
289 |
278 |
Delaware |
105 |
101 |
105 |
100 |
104 |
113 |
107 |
101 |
District of Columbia |
227 |
220 |
212 |
207 |
195 |
231 |
951 |
904 |
Florida |
2,660 |
2,703 |
2,669 |
2,604 |
2,547 |
2,860 |
2,694 |
2,621 |
Georgia |
1,727 |
1,679 |
1,667 |
1,620 |
1,615 |
1,680 |
1,634 |
1,605 |
Hawaii |
137 |
136 |
128 |
124 |
130 |
144 |
137 |
127 |
Idaho |
148 |
153 |
146 |
141 |
141 |
149 |
140 |
135 |
Illinois |
2,896 |
2,825 |
2,758 |
2,728 |
2,667 |
2,772 |
2,596 |
2,452 |
Indiana |
774 |
757 |
738 |
722 |
698 |
747 |
695 |
669 |
Iowa |
259 |
252 |
254 |
246 |
257 |
269 |
253 |
236 |
Kansas |
268 |
262 |
257 |
258 |
259 |
254 |
234 |
227 |
Kentucky |
760 |
750 |
725 |
705 |
681 |
756 |
724 |
704 |
Louisiana |
663 |
646 |
633 |
612 |
594 |
650 |
607 |
580 |
Maine |
175 |
175 |
178 |
168 |
171 |
178 |
169 |
170 |
Maryland |
10,589 |
10,466 |
10,411 |
10,176 |
9,736 |
10,307 |
9,751 |
9,480 |
Massachusetts |
1,055 |
1,050 |
1,034 |
1,016 |
979 |
1,010 |
983 |
950 |
Michigan |
1,305 |
1,322 |
1,286 |
1,281 |
1,259 |
1,303 |
1,241 |
1,199 |
Minnesota |
426 |
432 |
420 |
417 |
398 |
429 |
404 |
390 |
Mississippi |
563 |
546 |
542 |
520 |
508 |
552 |
537 |
520 |
Missouri |
2,559 |
2,540 |
2,510 |
2,511 |
2,353 |
2,539 |
2,401 |
2,311 |
Montana |
118 |
114 |
114 |
113 |
108 |
117 |
110 |
101 |
Nebraska |
147 |
148 |
143 |
144 |
148 |
153 |
146 |
150 |
Nevada |
280 |
284 |
269 |
261 |
252 |
274 |
267 |
255 |
New Hampshire |
135 |
139 |
136 |
129 |
138 |
144 |
143 |
140 |
New Jersey |
854 |
877 |
843 |
801 |
778 |
862 |
840 |
822 |
New Mexico |
884 |
892 |
821 |
784 |
703 |
753 |
722 |
672 |
New York |
3,655 |
3,770 |
3,730 |
3,611 |
3,539 |
3,666 |
3,468 |
3,381 |
North Carolina |
1,374 |
1,343 |
1,314 |
1,310 |
1,263 |
1,377 |
1,319 |
1,278 |
North Dakota |
98 |
93 |
93 |
87 |
83 |
89 |
77 |
80 |
Ohio |
1,475 |
1,460 |
1,439 |
1,400 |
1,349 |
1,411 |
1,341 |
1,286 |
Oklahoma |
483 |
473 |
468 |
458 |
474 |
498 |
469 |
455 |
Oregon |
399 |
391 |
394 |
389 |
360 |
374 |
345 |
339 |
Pennsylvania |
3,937 |
3,891 |
4,107 |
3,926 |
3,766 |
3,886 |
3,791 |
3,654 |
Rhode Island |
155 |
141 |
143 |
143 |
141 |
152 |
143 |
142 |
South Carolina |
628 |
607 |
609 |
606 |
594 |
632 |
604 |
583 |
South Dakota |
83 |
84 |
83 |
85 |
85 |
88 |
78 |
80 |
Tennessee |
1,020 |
992 |
960 |
936 |
928 |
968 |
927 |
908 |
Texas |
3,294 |
3,291 |
3,271 |
3,277 |
3,134 |
3,352 |
3,291 |
3,185 |
Utah |
173 |
173 |
179 |
176 |
173 |
191 |
176 |
167 |
Vermont |
54 |
49 |
53 |
52 |
51 |
59 |
54 |
55 |
Virginia |
1,919 |
1,855 |
1,742 |
1,632 |
1,526 |
1,520 |
719 |
678 |
Washington |
1,489 |
1,435 |
1,381 |
1,269 |
1,165 |
1,257 |
1,149 |
1,110 |
West Virginia |
361 |
347 |
331 |
303 |
310 |
337 |
309 |
300 |
Wisconsin |
600 |
586 |
575 |
556 |
553 |
562 |
541 |
524 |
Wyoming |
36 |
38 |
42 |
39 |
38 |
40 |
35 |
32 |
Suppressed |
268 |
270 |
264 |
235 |
233 |
248 |
245 |
|
U.S. Territories |
396 |
382 |
363 |
354 |
357 |
419 |
437 |
|
American Samoa |
||||||||
Guam |
14 |
14 |
NA |
15 |
16 |
17 |
17 |
|
Northern Mariana Islands |
||||||||
Puerto Rico |
364 |
347 |
331 |
318 |
320 |
378 |
398 |
|
U.S. Virgin Islands |
13 |
|||||||
Foreign Countries |
||||||||
Unspecified |
31 |
33 |
31 |
31 |
29 |
31 |
74 |
Source: Office of Personnel Management, "FedScope," https://www.fedscope.opm.gov/.
Notes: DC = District of Columbia. Data for March 2025 are preliminary.
a. FedScope's preliminary March 2025 dataset does not report data for the rows suppressed, U.S. territories, foreign countries, and unspecified. Instead, the dataset includes an entry titled "Redacted," which was 487.
b. The data for this area are suppressed (i.e., FedScope reports "NA" for this area).
Table A-1 provides the data underlying the figures shown in the body of the report. The table includes additional years of data for SSA total staff on duty and SSA total work years (LAE-only activities), as well as data on SSA FTEs and OIG FTEs. Data for some metrics are not available for all years shown below, because CRS was unable to find publicly available data for certain years. In some cases, the entries for certain metrics are blank (i.e.,—) because the particular metric was not captured or produced by SSA at that time or the particular entity did not exist at that time (e.g., SSA's OIG was established in the second half of FY1995).
Table A-1. Historical Social Security Administration (SSA) Staffing Data, by Metric
FY1936-FY2024 (Selected Years)
Fiscal Year |
SSA Total Staff on Duty |
SSA Full-Time Permanent Staff on Duty |
SSA Total Work Years |
State DDS Total Staff on Duty |
State DDS Total Work Years |
SSA FTEs (Excluding OIG) |
OIG FTEs |
|
LAE-Only Activities |
All Activities |
|||||||
1936 |
634 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1937 |
5,748 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1938 |
9,612 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1939 |
9,661 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1940 |
12,164 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1941 |
12,682 |
— |
9,037 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1942 |
13,297 |
— |
9,853 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1943 |
10,585 |
— |
9,502 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1944 |
10,045 |
— |
8,268 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1945 |
10,629 |
— |
8,269 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1946 |
11,261 |
— |
9,624 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1947 |
12,830 |
— |
10,616 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1948 |
12,889 |
— |
11,450 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1949 |
12,854 |
— |
11,069 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1950 |
11,899 |
— |
11,137 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1951 |
14,821 |
— |
13,301 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1952 |
14,814 |
— |
13,853 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1953 |
14,623 |
— |
14,402 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1954 |
14,634 |
— |
13,983 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1955 |
18,514 |
— |
16,363 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1956 |
18,591 |
— |
17,729 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1957 |
22,472 |
— |
21,984 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1958 |
23,540 |
— |
23,297 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1959 |
26,322 |
— |
25,207 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1960 |
26,071 |
— |
25,829 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1961 |
32,100 |
— |
30,063 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1962 |
35,304 |
— |
34,741 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1963 |
34,796 |
— |
34,959 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1964 |
35,056 |
— |
35,448 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1965 |
35,897 |
— |
35,345 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1966 |
44,774 |
— |
48,473 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1967 |
48,092 |
47,004 |
49,650 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1968 |
53,142 |
52,459 |
54,770 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1969 |
53,543 |
50,488 |
54,405 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1970 |
54,164 |
50,048 |
53,648 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1971 |
56,443 |
52,225 |
55,438 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1972 |
56,260 |
52,485 |
56,443 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1973 |
68,340 |
62,609 |
59,542 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1974 |
76,762 |
71,187 |
77,956 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1975 |
82,791 |
74,993 |
84,037 |
86,168 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1976 |
87,125 |
77,920 |
87,487 |
89,045 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1977 |
88,257 |
80,054 |
89,848 |
90,835 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1978 |
86,563 |
77,684 |
86,449 |
88,088 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
1979 |
84,629 |
75,230 |
85,996 |
87,725 |
— |
9,625 |
— |
— |
1980 |
84,269 |
74,498 |
84,937 |
86,539 |
— |
9,701 |
— |
— |
1981 |
86,948 |
74,330 |
84,262 |
85,958 |
— |
10,794 |
78,842 |
— |
1982 |
88,611 |
74,880 |
86,640 |
88,163 |
— |
12,513 |
82,000 |
— |
1983 |
86,131 |
74,604 |
88,254 |
89,299 |
— |
12,887 |
82,483 |
— |
1984 |
83,980 |
73,944 |
86,185 |
87,864 |
— |
12,924 |
79,951 |
— |
1985 |
83,505 |
72,225 |
82,131 |
83,406 |
— |
13,074 |
77,741 |
— |
1986 |
77,358 |
68,962 |
78,746 |
79,225 |
— |
13,302 |
75,494 |
— |
1987 |
71,024 |
64,529 |
72,721 |
73,408 |
— |
12,502 |
70,784 |
— |
1988 |
68,908 |
63,029 |
68,558 |
69,286 |
— |
11,963 |
66,835 |
— |
1989 |
66,597 |
61,131 |
66,311 |
66,931 |
— |
11,634 |
64,621 |
— |
1990 |
65,978 |
61,067 |
64,155 |
65,025 |
— |
11,177 |
62,836 |
— |
1991 |
68,270 |
63,715 |
64,844 |
66,040 |
— |
11,738 |
62,850 |
— |
1992 |
67,398 |
62,398 |
66,164 |
68,135 |
— |
13,225 |
64,324 |
— |
1993 |
65,906 |
61,640 |
66,202 |
66,623 |
— |
13,298 |
63,771 |
— |
1994 |
67,590 |
62,434 |
66,259 |
66,741 |
— |
13,267 |
64,017 |
— |
1995 |
67,925 |
62,504 |
66,537 |
67,063 |
— |
13,478 |
64,135 |
109 |
1996 |
67,398 |
62,133 |
66,154 |
66,726 |
— |
12,938 |
63,418 |
247 |
1997 |
67,750 |
61,224 |
68,710 |
69,378 |
— |
14,118 |
64,574 |
314 |
1998 |
65,629 |
59,943 |
— |
67,210 |
— |
14,330 |
63,339 |
388 |
1999 |
63,957 |
59,752 |
65,760 |
66,459 |
— |
14,611 |
62,312 |
428 |
2000 |
64,521 |
60,434 |
— |
65,521 |
— |
14,231 |
61,698 |
517 |
2001 |
65,377 |
61,490 |
— |
65,562 |
— |
14,397 |
61,743 |
559 |
2002 |
64,648 |
61,914 |
— |
65,742 |
— |
14,947 |
62,214 |
564 |
2003 |
64,903 |
63,569 |
— |
65,343 |
— |
14,700 |
62,264 |
566 |
2004 |
65,258 |
63,186 |
— |
66,154 |
— |
14,772 |
62,513 |
594 |
2005 |
66,147 |
63,696 |
— |
68,026 |
— |
15,038 |
61,790 |
610 |
2006 |
63,647 |
61,692 |
— |
66,878 |
— |
14,653 |
61,468 |
608 |
2007 |
62,407 |
60,206 |
— |
63,939 |
— |
13,916 |
60,814 |
597 |
2008 |
63,990 |
61,920 |
— |
64,358 |
15,361 |
13,605 |
60,456 |
583 |
2009 |
67,632 |
65,203 |
— |
67,170 |
16,814 |
14,224 |
63,187 |
576 |
2010 |
69,963 |
67,548 |
— |
70,758 |
18,268 |
16,021 |
66,398 |
583 |
2011 |
67,136 |
64,744 |
— |
69,936 |
17,064 |
16,739 |
66,749 |
574 |
2012 |
65,113 |
62,943 |
— |
67,208 |
16,075 |
14,913 |
63,760 |
569 |
2013 |
62,543 |
59,823 |
— |
64,601 |
15,279 |
14,081 |
61,627 |
558 |
2014 |
64,684 |
62,956 |
— |
64,006 |
16,966 |
14,187 |
60,105 |
539 |
2015 |
65,717 |
63,466 |
— |
67,004 |
16,168 |
14,925 |
63,170 |
528 |
2016 |
64,394 |
62,685 |
— |
65,798 |
16,797 |
15,152 |
62,949 |
522 |
2017 |
62,297 |
61,250 |
— |
63,957 |
15,458 |
14,522 |
60,664 |
512 |
2018 |
62,519 |
61,011 |
— |
64,095 |
14,750 |
13,665 |
60,160 |
496 |
2019 |
61,991 |
60,450 |
63,828 |
64,576 |
14,906 |
13,429 |
60,470 |
508 |
2020 |
61,447 |
60,364 |
61,553 |
62,291 |
14,891 |
13,028 |
59,574 |
519 |
2021 |
59,808 |
58,952 |
61,112 |
61,830 |
15,297 |
13,758 |
59,195 |
499 |
2022 |
57,754 |
56,907 |
59,903 |
60,570 |
14,571 |
13,825 |
57,568 |
479 |
2023 |
61,410 |
60,026 |
61,225 |
61,771 |
15,343 |
13,554 |
58,293 |
500 |
2024 |
58,409 |
57,148 |
60,127 |
60,817 |
14,469 |
13,643 |
57,820 |
508 |
1. |
Social Security Administration (SSA), Annual Performance Report for Fiscal Year 2024, January 2025, p. 6, https://www.ssa.gov/agency/performance/materials/2024/SSA_FY24_APR.pdf. |
2. |
SSA, Justification of Estimates for Appropriations Committees for Fiscal Year 2026, May 2025, p. 7, https://www.ssa.gov/budget/assets/materials/2026/FY26-JEAC.pdf. |
3. |
See CRS Report R47097, Social Security Administration (SSA): Trends in the Annual Limitation on Administrative Expenses (LAE) Appropriation. |
4. |
Reimbursable work is work that SSA performs on behalf of another entity under a reimbursable agreement. |
5. |
SSA's OIG is funded primarily by a separate administrative appropriations account. |
6. |
Examples of special temporary workloads include SSA's work related to Medicare reform and the implementation of Part D in the mid-2000s, its work related to Medicare replacement cards in the mid-to-late 2010s, and its work related to recovery rebates (also known as economic impact payments or stimulus payments) during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
7. |
Examples of SSA's past administrative responsibilities include federal credit unions; all of Medicare; Black Lung (Part B); refugee assistance; Aid to Families with Dependent Children; the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program; child support enforcement; and cash assistance for the aged, blind, and disabled in the territories. For more information, see SSA, "Organizational History," https://www.ssa.gov/history/orghist.html; National Archives, "Records of the Social Security Administration [SSA]," https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/047.html; and Rita L. DiSimone, "Social Security Administration Created as an Independent Agency: P.L. 103-296," Social Security Bulletin, January 1995, p. 59, https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v58n1/v58n1p57.pdf. |
8. |
For more information on state DDSs, see Social Security Advisory Board, "Social Security: Improving Hiring Processes at State Disability Determination Services," September 2025, https://www.ssab.gov/announcements/social-security-improving-hiring-processes-at-state-disability-determination-services/. |
9. |
For more information on SSA's reorganizations in 2025, see SSA, "Press Releases," https://www.ssa.gov/news/en/press/releases/index.html. |