Prairie State Wire

There were 1,676,914 OASDI retired beneficiaries in Illinois in 2021, 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	4,636,107
2	Florida	3,720,938
3	Texas	3,149,545
4	New York	2,684,406
5	Pennsylvania	2,088,154
6	Ohio	1,689,343
7	Illinois	1,676,914
8	North Carolina	1,611,146
9	Michigan	1,600,554
10	Georgia	1,359,691
11	New Jersey	1,244,222
12	Virginia	1,174,814
13	Arizona	1,105,267
14	Washington	1,068,554
15	Tennessee	1,044,660
16	Indiana	987,268
17	Wisconsin	976,275
18	Massachusetts	939,694
19	Missouri	936,580
20	South Carolina	883,812
21	Minnesota	829,789
22	Maryland	777,516
23	Alabama	760,698
24	Colorado	709,963
25	Oregon	695,077
26	Kentucky	647,855
27	Louisiana	583,793
28	Oklahoma	561,018
29	Connecticut	532,298
30	Iowa	503,615
31	Arkansas	468,117
32	Mississippi	446,981
33	Nevada	438,116
34	Kansas	422,971
35	New Mexico	326,068
36	Utah	319,644
37	West Virginia	302,162
38	Idaho	282,455
39	Nebraska	270,312
40	Maine	258,610
41	New Hampshire	236,601
42	Hawaii	230,841
43	Montana	189,757
44	Delaware	175,408
45	Rhode Island	167,529
46	South Dakota	146,407
47	Vermont	116,636
48	North Dakota	105,753
49	Wyoming	91,386
50	Alaska	81,718
51	The District of Columbia	60,292