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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: October 24, 2008