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National Income and Product Accounts Table
Table 3.12. Government Social Benefits [Billions of dollars]
Today is: 11/21/2009 Last Revised on August 20, 2009

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Line		2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
1	Government social benefits	1,409.2	1,494.0	1,596.1	1,701.1	1,859.2
2	To persons	1,398.6	1,482.7	1,583.6	1,687.8	1,843.2
3	Federal	1,014.3	1,078.0	1,180.7	1,254.2	1,388.2
4	Benefits from social insurance funds	843.9	894.4	992.1	1,055.4	1,140.7
5	Old-age, survivors, and disability insurance	485.5	512.7	544.1	575.6	605.6
6	Hospital and supplementary medical insurance	304.7	331.9	399.2	428.1	464.7
7	Unemployment insurance	36.4	31.8	30.4	32.7	51.1
8	State	34.3	31.0	29.6	32.0	42.5
9	Railroad employees	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
10	Federal employees	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.7
11	Special unemployment benefits	1.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	7.7
12	Railroad retirement	9.0	9.2	9.5	9.8	10.1
13	Pension benefit guaranty	2.2	2.6	2.5	2.6	2.6
14	Veterans life insurance	1.7	1.6	1.6	1.5	1.5
15	Workers' compensation	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.6	2.5
16	Military medical insurance¹	2.0	2.1	2.5	2.4	2.7
17	Veterans benefits	32.4	34.8	37.3	40.1	43.6
18	Pension and disability	30.2	32.5	35.0	37.7	40.8
19	Readjustment	2.2	2.3	2.3	2.4	2.8
20	Other²	---	---	---	---	---
21	Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)³	25.9	29.5	29.4	30.9	36.4
22	Black lung benefits	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.5
23	Supplemental security income	31.9	33.1	34.7	36.7	38.6
24	Direct relief	---	---	---	---	---
25	Earned income credit	41.9	49.2	51.6	54.7	57.4
26	Other⁴	37.5	36.4	35.0	35.8	71.0
27	State and local	384.3	404.8	402.9	433.7	455.0
28	Benefits from social insurance funds	16.6	17.0	16.9	17.4	18.4
29	Temporary disability insurance	3.8	4.3	4.6	4.9	5.4
30	Workers' compensation	12.8	12.7	12.3	12.5	13.0
31	Public assistance	347.8	366.3	362.2	389.9	407.2
32	Medical care	299.8	315.0	311.0	336.8	352.2
33	Medicaid	289.7	304.4	299.0	324.1	338.6
34	Other medical care⁵	10.2	10.6	11.9	12.7	13.6
35	Family assistance⁶	18.4	18.2	18.2	18.5	18.9
36	Supplemental security income⁷	5.2	5.2	5.2	5.4	5.5
37	General assistance	7.8	11.0	10.4	11.6	11.7
38	Energy assistance	2.1	2.4	3.0	2.7	3.4
39	Other⁸	14.4	14.4	14.3	14.9	15.5
40	Education	17.1	18.8	20.7	22.9	25.2
41	Employment and training	1.3	1.2	1.3	1.0	1.0
42	Other⁹	1.5	1.5	1.8	2.5	3.3
43	To the rest of the world¹⁰	10.6	11.2	12.4	13.3	16.0

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