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SSI benefits per person: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: SSI benefits per person ($, derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Safety-net and veterans' benefits per person by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-11

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National value: 197 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 314 $
RI 246 $
DE 138 $
CT 183 $
NJ 145 $
MD 165 $
MA 214 $
VT 182 $
NH 101 $

Lowest: 74 to 130 $
Group 2: 130 to 157 $
Group 3: 157 to 185 $
Group 4: 185 to 227 $
Highest: 227 to 314 $

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: BEA's state estimates for 2025 are preliminary and are revised each year.


1	District of Columbia	314
2	West Virginia	308
3	Mississippi	297
4	Louisiana	292
5	California	289
6	Kentucky	287
7	Arkansas	267
8	New York	261
9	Rhode Island	246
10	Alabama	231
11	Michigan	227
12	Pennsylvania	225
13	New Mexico	218
14	Ohio	215
15	Massachusetts	214
16	Maine	206
17	Oklahoma	205
18	Alaska	200
19	Florida	194
20	Tennessee	191
21	Wisconsin	185
22	Georgia	184
23	Connecticut	183
24	Vermont	182
25	North Carolina	178
26	Missouri	176
27	Illinois	169
27	Oregon	169
29	Maryland	165
30	South Carolina	161
31	Minnesota	157
31	Washington	157
33	Indiana	155
34	Texas	151
35	Virginia	147
36	New Jersey	145
37	Nevada	142
38	Delaware	138
39	Iowa	134
40	Hawaii	130
40	Kansas	130
42	Arizona	128
43	South Dakota	127
44	Idaho	122
44	Nebraska	122
46	Montana	112
47	New Hampshire	101
48	Colorado	100
49	Wyoming	96
50	North Dakota	83
51	Utah	74

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Economic Accounts, Table SAINC35: Personal current transfer receipts
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Economic Accounts, Table SAINC1: Personal income summary: personal income, population, per capita personal income. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by SSI benefits per person ($, derived) (2025). Data: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Data, SAINC35 Personal current transfer receipts and SAINC1 Personal income, population, per capita personal income (annual, by state); rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-11. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-ssi-benefits-per-person/

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