No. 340. SOCIAL WELFARE EXPENDITURES UNDER PUBLIC PROGRAMS: 1935 to 1958

[In millions of dollars. For years ending June 30 for Federal Government, most States, and some localities; for other States and localities, years cover various 12-month periods ending within year. All programs except workmen's compensation include some payments and expenditures for Alaska, Hawali, and outlying areas. Represents expenditures under public law and from trust accounts. Includes administrative expenditures and capital outlay for hospitals, public elementary and secondary schools, and publicly controlled higher education. See also Historical Statistics, Colonial Times to 1957, series H 1-45, for data covering civilian programs only. Corrected to January 1960]

1 Although social insurance expenditures include non-Federal workmen's compensation benefits payable under law by employers and private insurance carriers, such expenditures and that part of temporary disability insurance payments made through private carriers have been omitted in computing percentages relating to all government expenditures.

Includes hospital construction and medical research; excludes health and medical expenditures under veterans programs, public education, public aid, workmen's compensation, and vocational rehabilitation (which are included under those programs), and medical expenditures provided subordinate to the performance of other functions.

Represents vocational rehabilitation, child welfare services, school lunch program, and institutional care. 4 Excludes expenditures of courts and public institutions serving children, public day-care centers, and appropriations made directly by legislatures to voluntary agencies or institutions.

Source: Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Social Security Administration: Social Security Bulletin, October 1959.

No. 341. SOCIAL WELFARE Expenditures Under Public ProgramS, BY SOURCE OF FUNDS AND PROGRAM: 1957 AND 1958

[In millions of dollars. See headnote, table 340. See also Historical Statistics, Colonial Times to 1957, series II 1-45, for data covering civilian programs only]

Excludes refunds of contributions to those leaving service. Federal expenditures include retirement pay of military personnel.

* Includes unemployment compensation for veterans of the Korean conflict and for Federal employees. Programs operate in 4 States only.

Payments by private insurance carriers, State funds, and self-insurers of benefits payable under State law and estimated State administrative costs.

Old-age assistance, aid to dependent children, aid to the blind, aid to the permanently and totally disabled, and, from State and local funds, general assistance. 6 Value of surplus food distributed to needy persons. 7 Excludes expenditures for domiciliary care (other than mental or tuberculosis) included under institutional care; health and medical services included under other programs; international health activities; and expenditures for certain medical programs subordinate to performance of other functions.

Crippled children's services and maternal and child health services programs under the Social Security Act. Expenditures of the Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration, Veterans Administration, Atomic Energy Commission, and Defense Department. 10 Not available.

Excludes expenditures for water supply, sanitation services, and sewage disposal but includes regulatory and administrative expenditures in connection with these activities; also includes expenditures for medical equipment and supplies in civil defense.

12 Includes expenditures for homes for adults (other than veterans) and for dependent or neglected children, and value of surplus foods for nonprofit institutions.

Cash apportionment, value of commodities purchased and distributed under the National School Lunch Act, value of surplus commodities distributed under other agricultural programs, and special school milk program. 14 See footnote 4, table 340.

15 Excludes Federal bonus payments, appropriations to Government life insurance trust fund, and accounts of several small revolving funds. State and local data represent State expenditures for bonus and other payments and services for veterans; local data not available.

e Vocational rehabilitation, specially adapted homes and automobiles for disabled veterans, counseling, beneficiaries' travel, loan guarantees, domiciliary care, and medical research.

17 Federal and State subsidies (and administrative costs) for low-cost housing.

Source: Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Social Security Administration; Social Security Bulletin, October 1959.

No. 342. SOCIAL WELFARE EXPENDITURES PER CAPITA UNDER PUBLIC Programs, ACTUAL AND 1958 PRICES: 1935 TO 1958

[For years ending June 30. including Armed Forces See headnote, table 340.

Per capita figures based on total population of the United States as of end of December, overseas and civilian population of Alaska, Hawaii, and outlying areas of the U.S. Corrected to October 1959]

Source: Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Social Security Administration.

No. 343. SELECTED SOCIAL INSURANCE PROGRAMS-ESTIMATED PAYROLLS IN
COVERED EMPLOYMENT IN RELATION TO WAGES AND SALARIES: 1937 TO 1958
[In millions of dollars. Gross amount, before deduction of social insurance contributions. See also Historical
Statistics, Colonial Times to 1957, series H 55-67. Corrected to February 1960]

1 Data from Department of Commerce, Office of Business Economics; exclude Alaska and Hawaii, except that pay for Federal civilian and military personnel is for all areas. Total earnings include earnings of selfemployed; "all wages and salaries" represent disbursements for civilian and military wages and salaries in cash and in kind.

2 Beginning 1955, adjusted for duplication of payrolls covered by both old-age, survivors, and disability insurance and State and local retirement systems.

Taxable plus estimated nontaxable wages and salaries. Excludes Alaska and Hawaii, except that, for 1958, data include Armed Forces pay in all areas.

4 Taxable wages (including those for Alaska and Hawaii) plus estimated nontaxable wages and salaries. Pay of Federal civilian personnel in all areas.

Excludes Alaska and Hawaii. 7 Not available.

8 Taxable plus estimated nontaxable wages and salaries, except that, beginning 1955, pay of Federal civilian personnel in all areas is included.

Payrolls of employers insuring with private carriers, State funds, or self-insured (excluding Alaska and Hawaii), and pay covered by Federal programs in all areas.

10 Represents percent of all wages and salaries to reflect inclusion of Armed Forces pay.

Source: Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Social Security Administration; data appear periodically in Social Security Bulletin.

No. 344. SOCIAL INSURANCE AND RELATED PROGRAMS-BENEFICIARIES
BENEFITS, BY RISK AND PROGRAM: 1940 to 1958

AND

[Partly estimated. Data for some programs include some beneficiaries and benefit payments in Alaska and Hawaii and in other outlying areas except workmen's compensation, State and local government retirement, and State temporary disability insurance. Data for State and local government, Federal civil service, and other Federal contributory retirement systems exclude refunds of employee contributions. See also Historical Statistics, Colonial Times to 1957, series H 69-114. Corrected to February 1960]

1 Average monthly number, except as noted.

Old-age benefits include benefits to dependents of retired-worker beneficiaries and, for 1958, to dependents of disabled-worker beneficiaries. Disability benefits were first payable July 1957.

For 1940 and 1950, small number and amount of survivor and disability payments included with old-age benefits. Lump-sum beneficiaries represent civil service program only.

For 1940 and 1950, survivor and disability payments included with old-age benefits (significant in number and amount only for disability payments in 1940).

$ For survivorship, number represents families. Data for 1958 preliminary. • Under Veterans Administration. For veterans of Spanish-American War, Boxer Rebellion, and Philippine Insurrection; for 1950 and 1958, includes all service pensions for this group.

Monthly survivor benefits include a small amount of lump-sum death payments.

Not available. 10 Payments are for burial of deceased veterans.

" Includes pensions and compensation, and subsistence payments to disabled veterans undergoing training. 12 Excludes payments for medical care.

13 Payable only in Calif., N.J., N.Y., and R.I. Includes maternity benefits in R.I.; excludes hospital benefits in Calif. and hospital, surgical, and medical benefits under approved plans in N.Y. Beneficiaries are average weekly number; exclude private-plan beneficiaries in Calif. and N.J.

14 Beneficiaries are average number in 14-day registration period.

15 Beginning 1955, includes payments to Federal employees made by States as agents of Federal Government; for 1958, includes payments made June-December under the temporary unemployment compensation programs and those made November-December to unemployed veterans under the Ex-Servicemen's Unemployment Act of 1958. Beneficiaries are average weekly number.

16 Under the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 and the Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1952; includes self-employment allowances under the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (negligible in 1955 and 1958). Beneficiaries are average weekly number for unemployment allowances, average monthly number for selfemployment allowances. See footnote 15.

Source: Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Social Security Administration; Social Security Bulletin.

No. 345. FEDERAL GRANTS TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, BY PURPOSE, BY STATES AND OTHER AREAS: 1959

[In thousands of dollars; except per capita. For year ending June 30. See headnote and footnotes, table 346]

Based on estimates of total population, excluding Armed Forces overseas, as of July 1, 1958. Includes small amount of advances and undistributed, and grants under a few programs to American Samoa, Canal Zone, Guam, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific.

Source: Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Social Security Administration; Social Security Bulletin. Based on Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury.