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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 May 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Vis Impair Blind. 2022;113(3):396–403. doi: 10.1177/0145482x221108902

Table 2.

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) Benefit and Personal Income for People with Visual Impairments

Variable Mean [95% CI] Median [95% CI]
SSDI No SSDI SSDI No SSDI
American Community Survey (ACS)
Benefit amount 11,051 [10,851, 11,250] NA 10,312 [10,015, 10,609] NA
Income - All 18,975 [18,456, 19,494] 28,492 [27,923, 29,062] 13,123 [12,816, 13,430] 14,142 [13,311, 14,973]
 Employed 34,391 [31,501, 37,281] 42,901 [42,081, 43,721] 23,678 [21,938, 25,417] 30,237 [29,641, 30,832]
 Not employed 16,796 [16,267, 17,325] 7,911 [7,548, 8,274] 12,286 [11,955, 12,618] 2,417 [1,796, 3,039]
Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)
Benefit amount 14,006 [13,203, 14,809] NA 13,355 [12,653, 14,057] NA
Income - All 20,631 [18,542, 22,719] 29,252 [26,085, 32,418] 16,361 [14,901, 17,821] 13,613 [11,188, 16,037]
 Employed 26,257 [21,458, 31,056] 45,860 [41,002, 50,717] 23,841 [19,537, 28,145] 30,169 [28,029, 32,310]
 Not employed 20,167 [17,924, 22,411] 7,262 [5,887, 8,637] 15,725 [14,275, 17,174] 2,419 [1,421, 3,417]

Note. CI = confidence interval. Weighted estimates from ACS 2019 1-year Public Use Microdata Sample and SIPP 2018 Panel, Wave 1. All numbers are rounded to represent U.S. dollars ($).