11. New York

Average annual benefit: $18,174

In The Empire State, 2,548,783 retirees averaged monthly benefits of $1,514.50. Benefits are not taxed. Interestingly, John Sweeney Jr. of New Rochelle received the first SS number in 1936.

Hilda Whitcher had over 40,000 people misuse her number across four decades. Her 1936 employer bolstered wallet sales using display cards with Whitcher’s Social Security Number without her permission. The Administration issued her a new number in 1943, but as late as 1977, the number was still misused.