Total annual benefits paid from the Disability Insurance (DI) Trust Fund in constant dollars, divided by the country’s total population.
The DI Trust Fund is a separate account in the United States Treasury. The trust fund provides automatic spending authority to the Social Security Administration (SSA) to pay monthly benefits to disabled-worker beneficiaries and their spouses and children. With such spending authority, the SSA does not need to periodically request money from Congress to pay benefits. For more information, see the Social Security Administration’s publication on Disability Benefits.
Benefits are adjusted for inflation using the Bureau of Economic Analysis price index for Gross Domestic Product. See National Income and Product Accounts.