SSI Recipients by Living Arrangement and Assistance Category: 2002 Onward

Monthly counts of Supplemental Security Income recipients are broken down by living arrangement and assistance category for the aged, blind, and disabled populations. The dataset's columns suggest it can be used to track program enrollment trends and demographic shifts over time. Its presence on multiple government data platforms indicates it is a standard administrative reporting series.

Use Cases

• Tracking monthly enrollment trends for SSI using Month and Recipients columns
• Analyzing the distribution of recipients by disability status using Category of Assistance
• Comparing living situations of recipients over time using Living Arrangement and Year
• Creating time-series forecasts of program costs using Month Code and Recipients

Strengths

• Provides a long-term monthly time series beginning in 2002
• Includes detailed breakdowns by three key dimensions: assistance category, living arrangement, and time
• Is hosted and maintained on multiple official government data platforms

Limitations

• Metadata conflicts exist: the last updated date differs between Socrata (2026-05-28) and Data.gov (2026-04-04)
• Key metadata such as row count, file size, license, and author are not provided on any platform
• The description is identical across sources, suggesting limited contextual documentation

Provenance

Source

data.ny.gov (New York state government data portal)

Collection Method

Likely contains administrative records from the Supplemental Security Income Program.

Time Range

Beginning 2002

Freshness

Last updated date conflicts between sources; the most recent claimed update is 2026-05-28.

Geography

Not explicitly stated; the publishing organization (data.ny.gov) suggests a possible New York focus, but the description does not specify a geographic scope.