Social Security and Medicare are federal programs that provide income and health insurance to qualifying populations, mostly older Americans and the disabled. Beneficiaries of both programs have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
As of Aug. 21, 2021, 22.3% of those who died were between 65 and 74 years old.2 Millions of Social Security and Medicare recipients who survived the COVID-19 surge have been affected as well—or will be—by the impact of the pandemic on those programs.
