Prairie State Wire

There were 1,654,623 OASDI retired beneficiaries in Illinois in 2020, ranking it seventh in the United States, according to the official Social Security Administration website.

The Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) is a program of the Social Security Administration funded primarily through payroll taxes. It was signed into law in 1935 by then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The OASDI program aims to supplement a worker’s lost wages due to retirement, disability or death of a spouse.

The following table shows states ranked by number of retired workers.

Rank	State	Number of Retired Workers
1	California	4,563,824
2	Florida	3,625,364
3	Texas	3,062,526
4	New York	2,645,425
5	Pennsylvania	2,056,241
6	Ohio	1,661,141
7	Illinois	1,654,623
8	North Carolina	1,574,403
9	Michigan	1,571,421
10	Georgia	1,330,246
11	New Jersey	1,226,008
12	Virginia	1,147,511
13	Arizona	1,079,667
14	Washington	1,041,832
15	Tennessee	1,023,475
16	Indiana	969,120
17	Wisconsin	950,228
18	Massachusetts	921,297
19	Missouri	919,164
20	South Carolina	857,657
21	Minnesota	807,380
22	Maryland	761,526
23	Alabama	748,936
24	Colorado	690,452
25	Oregon	683,497
26	Kentucky	635,809
27	Louisiana	573,565
28	Oklahoma	551,853
29	Connecticut	522,492
30	Iowa	493,211
31	Arkansas	460,240
32	Mississippi	439,690
33	Nevada	428,286
34	Kansas	413,953
35	New Mexico	318,663
36	Utah	308,775
37	West Virginia	299,166
38	Idaho	272,396
39	Nebraska	264,178
40	Maine	251,087
41	New Hampshire	228,809
42	Hawaii	225,111
43	Montana	184,587
44	Delaware	169,378
45	Rhode Island	164,439
46	South Dakota	141,799
47	Vermont	113,550
48	North Dakota	102,674
49	Wyoming	88,506
50	Alaska	79,077
51	The District of Columbia	59,696