Southwest Montana News

There were 375 total OASDI retired beneficiaries in Montana zip code 59639 in 2018, an 8.7 percent increase over 2017, which had only 345 total retired 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.