Bluegrass Times

There were 179,822 total OASDI disabled workers Kentucky in 2021, ranking it 16th in the United States, according to the official Social Security Administration website.

The Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program 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.

State Ranking by Number of Disabled Workers in 2021

Rank	State	Number of Disabled Workers
1	California	565,270
2	Florida	520,045
3	Texas	513,527
4	New York	447,428
5	Pennsylvania	368,244
6	Ohio	322,274
7	Michigan	307,554
8	North Carolina	296,199
9	Georgia	262,794
10	Illinois	251,128
11	Tennessee	222,515
12	Alabama	205,681
13	Missouri	194,556
14	Virginia	192,934
15	Indiana	189,432
16	Kentucky	179,822
17	Massachusetts	173,945
18	New Jersey	173,632
19	South Carolina	161,614
20	Washington	151,348
21	Wisconsin	147,961
22	Louisiana	143,284
23	Arizona	141,322
24	Arkansas	125,981
25	Oklahoma	118,777
26	Maryland	116,464
27	Mississippi	114,383
28	Minnesota	114,022
29	Oregon	96,685
30	Colorado	87,507
31	West Virginia	77,602
32	Connecticut	74,895
33	Iowa	74,363
34	Kansas	66,682
35	Nevada	59,661
36	New Mexico	58,346
37	Maine	50,945
38	Utah	43,781
39	New Hampshire	43,702
40	Idaho	41,769
41	Nebraska	38,910
42	Rhode Island	33,535
43	Delaware	25,286
44	Montana	24,869
45	Vermont	20,214
46	Hawaii	19,617
47	South Dakota	17,723
48	North Dakota	13,797
49	Wyoming	12,878
50	District of Columbia	12,097
51	Alaska	11,023