With up to a third of that amount reserved for legal fees, the individual payments would average a few hundred dollars apiece.

If all apply, payments would average $19,500, the agency said.

However, since the Revolution the government's general budget payments have averaged:

Monthly payments now average $590 for a disabled worker and $165 for a spouse or a child.

These out-of-pocket payments averaged $1,059 per person; total health-care costs, $4,202.

On a 30-year fixed rate schedule monthly payments would average around $686, given a 7.3 percent interest rate.

The payments averaged about $1,700 a month per family.

The payments averaged $65 and went as high as $150.

The latest payments, made in February, averaged $3,800 a worker.

The payments averaged 1 percent of the total life insurance payments.