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What is the Federal Social Insurance Tax Revenue?

In FY 2025, federal social insurance tax revenue was $1,748 billion according to the Office of Management and Budget. Social Security related taxes amounted to $1,284 billion and Medicare Hospital Insurance Tax was $395 billion.

Budgeted federal social insurance tax revenue for FY 2026 is $1,850 billion.

Federal Social Insurance Tax Analysis

 

This page shows the current trends in US Federal social insurance tax revenue. There are also charts on US Federal social insurance tax revenue history.

Recent US Federal Social Insurance Tax Revenue

Recent Social Insurance Tax Revenue

Chart R.21f: Recent Social Insurance Tax Revenue

Federal social insurance tax revenue was increasing in the mid 2000s, peaking at $0.89 trillion in 2008. But social insurance tax collections declined modestly to $0.81 trillion by FY 2011. Federal social insurance tax increased steadily to $1.3 trillion in FY2021, and then increased sharply.

Federal social insurance tax revenue for 2025 was $1.7 trillion.

Recent Social Insurance Tax as Pct GDP

Chart R.22f: Recent Social Insurance Tax as Pct GDP

Viewed from a GDP perspective, federal social insurance tax revenue has been pegging along between 5.5 and 6 percent GDP, with a drop to 5.1 percent GDP in FY2011.

Federal social insurance tax revenue for 2025 was 5.7 percent GDP.

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Recent Federal Social Insurance Taxes

Recent Federal Social Insurance Taxes

Chart R.23f: Recent Federal Social Insurance Taxes

Social insurance tax collections were a little over 6 percent of GDP in 1990, and, with declines in recessions, have shown a consistent mild decline since, with 5.8 percent GDP in 2024.

Old Age Survivor Insurance started at 4.2 percent GDP and ended at 3.5 percent GDP. Disability Insurance has been about 0.5 percent GDP. Hospital Insurance has been about 1.2 percent GDP. Unemployment insurance has been about 0.2 to 0.3 percent GDP.

US Federal Social Insurance Taxes Since 1920

Recent Social Insurance Taxes since 1920

Chart R.24f: Recent Social Insurance Taxes since 1920

Collection of federal social insurance taxes began in the 1930s, with the creation of Social Security and unemployment insurance. Starting in 1936, collections for Old Age Survivor Insurance increased steadily, hitting 1 percent GDP in 1953, 2 percent GDP in 1963, 3 percent GDP in 1974, and peaking 4.3 percent GDP in 1991.

Disability Insurance collections began in 1957, reached 0.5 percent GDP in 1978, and broke through 0.8 percent GDP in 2017, and declining to 0.62 percent GDP in 2024.

Collections for Hospital Insurance for Medicare started in 1966 and broke through 0.5 percent GDP in 1073 and 1.0 percent GDP in 1981. Hospital Insurance peaked at 1.4 percent GDP in 2001, and since then has collected between 1.2 and 1.3 percent GDP.

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On April 4, 2026, we updated usgovernmentspending.com with the numbers from the Public Budget Database in the Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year 2027

Here is how headline budget estimates for the upcoming FY 2027 fiscal year have changed since the release of the FY 2025 budget in Winter 2024. There were no budgetary estimates in the budget documents for the FY 2026 budget.

Federal Budget Changes for 2027
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in FY2025 Budget
Estimate for 2027
in FY2027 Budget
Change
Federal Outlays$7,696.6$8,092.9 +$569.1
Federal Receipts$6,186.2$5,921.0+$279.1
Federal Deficit$1,510.3$2,171.9+$290.0

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