High Country Times

There were 27,965 total OASDI retired beneficiaries in Wilkesboro in 2018, a 2.9% increase over 2017, which had 27,190 total retired beneficiaries, 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.