2.14.2 BENEFICIARY EDUCATION AND INCOME INDICATORS 



CURRENT POWER-OF-ATTORNEY BENEFICIARIES ARE BETTER EDUCATED (1*9* HAVE 

 ATTENDED COLLEGE) AND HAVE A HIGHER INCOME (55* REPORTED THAT THEY ARE 

 COMFORTABLE FINANCIALLY) THAN THE GENERAL BENEFICIAR Y POPULATION. 



Percentages Based on Weighted Sample Data 



Education 

 Total 

 Less than high 



school 

 High School 

 College 

 Refused/Don't 

 Know 

 Income Indicator 

 Total 

 Can't make end£ 



meet 

 Just enough to 



get along on 

 Comfortable 

 Refused/Don't 

 know 



Power-of -Attorney 

 Survey 



100* 



Ik 

 33 



k9 



100* 

 7 



36 



55 

 2 



Base for percentages 135»060 



age 



Newly 

 Entitled 



100* 



33 

 50 

 1U 



100* 

 17 



53 



28 



1 



General 

 Beneficiaries 



100 1 



9^,509 



39 

 37 



16 



100* 



ii+ 



U3 



111 



3 



17,159,250 



*Detail may not add to total due to rounding 



FIGURE 2. 1+. 2 



2.U. 3 BENEFICIARY AGE AND BENEFIT AMOUNT 



AGE COMPARISONS SHOW NO DIFFERENCES. HOWEVER, POWER-OF-ATTORNEY BENEFICIAR 

 ARE ENTITLED TO HIGHER PAYMENTS THAN THE GENERAL BENEFICIARY POPULATION. 



Amounts Based on Weighted Sample Data and SSA 

 Statistical Tables for the Month of February 1973 



Average Monthly Benefit Amount Paid to: 

 Workers and special age 72 



beneficiaries 

 Wife 

 Widow/Widower 



FIGURE 2.1*. 3 

 -18- 



Power-of- Attorney 

 Survey 



$179.01 



9k.ee 



172.95 



Tot 

 Popule 



£ 



r. 



