## Social Security Disabled Worker Applications for Disability Benefits & Benefit Awards

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 In the table below, we show the number of applications for Social Security disability benefits from people who             are applying on their own earnings record (hence the term "disabled workers"). The applications do *not* include             those from disabled  widow(er)s  or disabled children, and they do *not* include             applications from individuals applying only for Supplemental Security Income payments.

Those workers who applied for a disability benefit and were ultimately awarded one      are represented in the column "Number of awards."  Those who were denied either did      not meet our definition of disability or were not       insured for disability benefits.

Note that the column "Awards as a percent of applications" is simply the ratio of      awards in a year to the number of applications in the same year.  It does *not*      represent the percentage of applications in a year that were ultimately awarded       a benefit.

| Calendar year | Number ofapplications | Numberof awards | Awards as apercent ofapplications | Awards per1,000    insuredworkersa |
|---------------|-----------------------|-----------------|-----------------------------------|------------------------------------|
| 1965          | 529.3                 | 253.5           | 47.9                              | 4.7                                |
| 1966          | 544.5                 | 278.3           | 51.1                              | 5.1                                |
| 1967          | 573.2                 | 301.4           | 52.6                              | 5.4                                |
| 1968          | 719.8                 | 323.2           | 44.9                              | 5.7                                |
| 1969          | 725.2                 | 344.7           | 47.5                              | 4.9                                |
| 1970          | 869.8                 | 350.4           | 40.3                              | 4.8                                |
| 1971          | 923.9                 | 415.9           | 45.0                              | 5.5                                |
| 1972          | 947.5                 | 455.4           | 48.1                              | 5.9                                |
| 1973          | 1,067.5               | 491.6           | 46.1                              | 6.2                                |
| 1974          | 1,330.2               | 536.0           | 40.3                              | 6.6                                |
| 1975          | 1,285.3               | 592.0           | 46.1                              | 7.0                                |
| 1976          | 1,232.2               | 551.5           | 44.8                              | 6.4                                |
| 1977          | 1,235.2               | 568.9           | 46.1                              | 6.5                                |
| 1978          | 1,184.7               | 490.8           | 41.4                              | 5.5                                |
| 1979          | 1,187.8               | 440.5           | 37.1                              | 4.7                                |
| 1980          | 1,262.3               | 420.3           | 33.3                              | 4.3                                |
| 1981          | 1,161.2               | 381.0           | 32.8                              | 3.8                                |
| 1982          | 1,019.8               | 336.1           | 33.0                              | 3.3                                |
| 1983          | 1,019.3               | 428.5           | 42.0                              | 4.1                                |
| 1984          | 1,036.7               | 410.0           | 39.5                              | 3.9                                |
| 1985          | 1,066.2               | 416.1           | 39.0                              | 3.9                                |
| 1986          | 1,118.4               | 424.9           | 38.0                              | 3.9                                |
| 1987          | 1,108.9               | 420.3           | 37.9                              | 3.8                                |
| 1988          | 1,017.9               | 415.3           | 40.8                              | 3.7                                |
| 1989          | 984.9                 | 430.7           | 43.7                              | 3.7                                |
| 1990          | 1,067.7               | 472.1           | 44.2                              | 4.0                                |
| 1991          | 1,208.7               | 540.8           | 44.7                              | 4.5                                |
| 1992          | 1,335.1               | 642.1           | 48.1                              | 5.3                                |
| 1993          | 1,425.8               | 637.4           | 44.7                              | 5.2                                |
| 1994          | 1,443.8               | 631.9           | 43.8                              | 5.1                                |
| 1995          | 1,338.1               | 645.6           | 48.3                              | 5.2                                |
| 1996          | 1,279.2               | 624.3           | 48.8                              | 4.9                                |
| 1997          | 1,180.2               | 587.7           | 49.8                              | 4.6                                |
| 1998          | 1,169.3               | 608.4           | 52.0                              | 4.6                                |
| 1999          | 1,200.1               | 620.6           | 51.7                              | 4.7                                |
| 2000          | 1,330.6               | 621.3           | 46.7                              | 4.6                                |
| 2001          | 1,498.6               | 690.5           | 46.1                              | 5.0                                |
| 2002          | 1,682.5               | 750.0           | 44.6                              | 5.4                                |
| 2003          | 1,895.5               | 777.5           | 41.0                              | 5.5                                |
| 2004          | 2,137.5               | 795.8           | 37.2                              | 5.6                                |
| 2005          | 2,122.1               | 829.7           | 39.1                              | 5.8                                |
| 2006          | 2,134.1               | 803.8           | 37.7                              | 5.5                                |
| 2007          | 2,190.2               | 818.5           | 37.4                              | 5.6                                |
| 2008          | 2,320.4               | 890.4           | 38.4                              | 6.0                                |
| 2009          | 2,816.2               | 987.6           | 35.1                              | 6.6                                |
| 2010          | 2,935.8               | 1049.3          | 35.7                              | 7.0                                |
| 2011          | 2,878.9               | 1019.1          | 35.4                              | 6.8                                |
| 2012          | 2,824.0               | 983.6           | 34.8                              | 6.6                                |
| 2013          | 2,653.9               | 888.1           | 33.5                              | 5.9                                |
| 2014          | 2,536.2               | 811.0           | 32.0                              | 5.4                                |
| 2015          | 2,427.4               | 775.7           | 32.0                              | 5.1                                |
| 2016          | 2,321.6               | 744.3           | 32.1                              | 4.9                                |
| 2017          | 2,179.9               | 762.1           | 35.0                              | 5.0                                |
| 2018          | 2,073.3               | 733.9           | 35.4                              | 4.8                                |
| 2019          | 2,015.2               | 723.9           | 35.9                              | 4.7                                |
| 2020          | 1,838.9               | 648.1           | 35.2                              | 4.1                                |
| 2021          | 1,800.4               | 572.0           | 31.8                              | 3.6                                |
| 2022          | 1,789.6               | 543.4           | 30.4                              | 3.4                                |
| 2023          | 1,904.6               | 561.6           | 29.5                              | 3.5                                |
| a Figures subject to revision. |
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