Mountain State Times

There were 479,303 OASDI beneficiaries in West Virginia in 2020, ranking it 35th in the United States, according to the official Social Security Administration website.

The Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) is a program of the Social Security Administration funded primarily through payroll taxes. It was signed into law in 1935 by then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The OASDI program aims to supplement a worker's lost wages due to retirement, disability or death of a spouse.

The following table shows states ranked by number of beneficiaries.

Rank	State	Number of Beneficiaries
1	California	6,150,009
2	Florida	4,840,275
3	Texas	4,421,803
4	New York	3,680,264
5	Pennsylvania	2,877,728
6	Ohio	2,405,217
7	Illinois	2,274,372
8	Michigan	2,250,141
9	North Carolina	2,183,353
10	Georgia	1,902,790
11	New Jersey	1,651,408
12	Virginia	1,585,194
13	Tennessee	1,496,750
14	Arizona	1,433,237
15	Washington	1,401,525
16	Indiana	1,382,024
17	Missouri	1,323,195
18	Massachusetts	1,294,623
19	Wisconsin	1,275,932
20	South Carolina	1,197,138
21	Alabama	1,165,990
22	Minnesota	1,069,913
23	Maryland	1,032,078
24	Kentucky	1,009,092
25	Louisiana	925,400
26	Colorado	915,854
27	Oregon	906,127
28	Oklahoma	811,064
29	Arkansas	707,846
30	Connecticut	695,402
31	Mississippi	681,219
32	Iowa	663,803
33	Kansas	569,120
34	Nevada	565,671
35	West Virginia	479,303
36	New Mexico	453,282
37	Utah	430,247
38	Idaho	370,385
39	Nebraska	357,164
40	Maine	355,433
41	New Hampshire	317,389
42	Hawaii	282,623
43	Montana	244,937
44	Rhode Island	230,018
45	Delaware	224,617
46	South Dakota	185,752
47	Vermont	156,005
48	North Dakota	138,461
49	Wyoming	118,420
50	Alaska	107,982
51	District of Columbia	83,647