Great Lakes Wire

There were 330 total OASDI beneficiaries in Michigan zip code 49638 in 2018, a 4.8 percent increase over 2017, which had only 315 total beneficiaries, 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.