Experience of Federal annuitants under OASDHI: age and sex.

An earlier study of Federal civil-service annuitants.’ based on a IO-percent sample. showed that more than 4 out of 10 of the nearly 1 million annuitants on the rolls in December 1975 were alsn receiving cash benefits under the old-age, survivors, disability, and health insurance (OASDHI) program. Most of these “dual beneficiaries” were “primary beneficiaries”-that is. they were entitled to social security benefits on the basis of their own covered earnings. The remainder, made up of dependents, survivors, and others, were “secondary beneficiaries”-those whose benefits were not based on their own earnings records. In addition. many other annuitants were found to have enough quarters of coverage for insured status under the social security program and thus were potential future beneficiaries. The sex and age characteristics of these groups are presented here to supplement the earlier review and to throw some light on the future benefit status of annuitants not on the social security rolls in December 1975.