Table F--Relative Importance to Personal Income of Transfer Payments, by Component, United States, 2000
| Millions of dollars | Percent of personal income | |||||||
| Personal income.. | 8,314,032 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Transfer payments.. | 1,070,231 | 12.87 | ||||||
| Government payments to individuals.. | 1,013,424 | 12.19 | ||||||
| Retirement & disability insurance benefit payments.. | 425,333 | 5.12 | ||||||
| Old age, survivors, & disability insurance payments.. | 401,408 | 4.83 | ||||||
| Railroad retirement and disability payments.. | 8,265 | 0.10 | ||||||
| Workers' compensation benefits.. | 11,111 | 0.13 | ||||||
| Other government disability insurance payments(1).. | 4,549 | 0.05 | ||||||
| Medical payments(2).. | 423,180 | 5.09 | ||||||
| Income maintenance benefit payments.. | 106,421 | 1.28 | ||||||
| Supplemental security income (SSI) payments.. | 31,675 | 0.38 | ||||||
| Family assistance(3).. | 18,277 | 0.22 | ||||||
| Food stamps.. | 14,939 | 0.18 | ||||||
| Other income maintenance(4).. | 41,530 | 0.50 | ||||||
| Unemployment insurance benefit payments.. | 20,707 | 0.25 | ||||||
| State unemployment insurance compensation.. | 19,938 | 0.24 | ||||||
| Unemployment compensation of Federal civilian employees.. | 227 | 0.00 | ||||||
| Unemployment compensation of railroad employees.. | 81 | 0.00 | ||||||
| Unemployment compensation for veterans.. | 182 | 0.00 | ||||||
| Other unemployment compensation(5).. | 279 | 0.00 | ||||||
| Veterans benefit payments.. | 24,939 | 0.30 | ||||||
| Veterans pension and disability benefit payments.. | 21,885 | 0.26 | ||||||
| Veterans readjustment payments(6).. | 1,331 | 0.02 | ||||||
| Veterans life insurance benefit payments.. | 1,714 | 0.02 | ||||||
| Other assistance to veterans(7).. | 9 | 0.00 | ||||||
| Federal education and training assistance payments (other than for veterans)(8).. | 10,729 | 0.13 | ||||||
| Other payments to individuals(9).. | 2,115 | 0.03 | ||||||
| Government transfers to nonprofits.. | 23,736 | 0.29 | ||||||
| Federal government payments.. | 7,442 | 0.09 | ||||||
| State and local government payments(10).. | 16,294 | 0.20 | ||||||
| Business transfers.. | 33,071 | 0.40 | ||||||
| Business transfer payments to individuals(11).. | 21,674 | 0.26 | ||||||
| Business transfer payments to nonprofit institutions.. | 11,397 | 0.14 | ||||||
1. Consists largely of temporary disability payments and black lung payments.
2. Consists of medicare, medicaid, and other medical vendor payments.
3. Consists of benefits––generally known as temporary assistance for needy families––provided under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.
4. Consists largely of general assistance, refugee assistance, foster home care and adoption assistance, earned income tax credits, and energy assistance.
5. Consists of trade readjustment allowance payments, Redwood Park benefit payments, public service employment benefit payments, and transitional benefit payments.
6. Consists largely of veterans' readjustment benefit payments and educational assistance to spouses and children of disabled or deceased veterans.
7. Consists largely of payments to paraplegics, payments for autos and other conveyances for disabled veterans, veterans' aid, and veterans' bonuses.
8. Consists largely of Federal fellowship payments (National Science Foundation, fellowships and traineeships, subsistence payments to State maritime academy cadets, and other federal fellowships), interest subsidy on higher education loans, basic educational opportunity grants, and Job Corps payments.
9. Consists largely of Bureau of Indian Affairs payments; education exchange payments; Alaska Permanent Fund dividend payments; compensation of survivors of public safety officers; compensation of victims of crime; disaster relief payments; compensation for Japanese internment; and other special payments to individuals.
10. Consists of State and local government educational assistance payments to nonprofit institutions and other State and local government payments to nonprofit institutions.
11. Consists of personal injury payments to individuals other than employees and other business transfer payments.
NOTE.––Detail may not add to totals due to rounding.
