Disability & Social Security
Benefits in Wisconsin
| Number of people receiving Supplemental Security Income |
103,806 |
| Due to disability |
87,867 |
| Due to a physical or sensory disability |
33,217 |
| Due to chronic mental illness |
28,027 |
| Due to a developmental disability |
25,951 |
| Due to other causes |
672 |
| Number of section 1619 (a) participants |
1,054 |
| Number of section 1619 (b) participants |
3,032 |
| Number of people receiving Old Age, Survivors and Disability
Insurance |
883,500 |
| Due to disability (diagnosis available for 67,973) |
73,172 |
| Due to a physical or sensory disability |
38,022 |
| Due to chronic mental illness |
22,113 |
| Due to a developmental disability |
4,773 |
| Due to other causes |
3,065 |
The disability estimates used in this report were obtained by applying
percentage estimates from the latest year available to the January 1997 estimate of the
Wisconsin total population. All data sources are listed below.
SOCIAL SECURITY
· Social Security Administration, Social Security Bulletin—Annual Statistical
Supplement, 1997.
· Social Security Administration; Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics,
Quarterly
Report on SSI Disabled Workers and Work Incentive Provisions, 1997.
· Kathy Luedtke, SSI Coordinator for the WI Department of Health and Family Services.
GENERAL POPULATION
· WI Department of Administration—Demographic Services Center, 1997.
· US Census Bureau, Census Tables on Disability, 1990.
GENERAL DISABILITY
· US Census Bureau, Americans with Disabilities: 1994-1995.
· Disability Statistics Rehabilitation Research and Training Center, University of
California, Disability Statistics Abstract Series, 1997.
Last Revised: January 30, 2006
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