Green Mountain Times

There were 540 total OASDI beneficiaries in Vermont zip code 05048 in 2018, a 0.92 percent decrease from 2017, which had only 545 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.