Pandemic EBT Administrative Costs — CFDA 10.649

P-EBT administrative obligations at $632.5M

USAspending.gov records $632,470,260.85 in obligations under CFDA 10.649. Eighty-nine awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $7.11 million per award. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical state-admin invoice and not a cost per card issued.

The assistance-listing title is PANDEMIC EBT ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS. CFDA 10.649 is the identifier. Other USDA SNAP, school-meal, or P-EBT benefit listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $632.5M. Combining those codes would invent a combined P-EBT total this packet does not contain. This code is the administrative-cost book, not the benefit-issuance book.

70 recipients and 89 award rows

Seventy recipients share 89 awards, or about 1.3 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $632,470,260.85 evenly would assign about $9.04 million per recipient. That density is a state-admin pattern: a headcount near the number of participating jurisdictions, each carrying one or two assistance rows. The packet does not list the 70. Recipient count is the organizational headcount on the federal extract, not a census of children or SNAP agencies’ local offices.

Fifty-three jurisdictions in the geographic count cover states plus territories and other coded entities in the USAspending state field. Admin dollars still follow state operations as coded, not equal shares. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Admin awards are not a card-issuance census

Among USDA nutrition listings, 10.649 is a compact admin file: 89 awards against 70 recipients. Award count is a weak proxy for “number of P-EBT programs” and a worse proxy for cards issued. Recipients (70) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (89) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report cards, children, or benefit dollars. Citing 89 as households served would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, jurisdictions — and remember this CFDA is tagged administrative costs.

Obligations versus P-EBT outlays

The $632.5M is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against Pandemic EBT Administrative Costs awards — are not in the packet. A state file can show a large obligation stock while reimbursements follow a later calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 10.649 to size this P-EBT administrative-cost listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a SNAP benefit, school-lunch, or P-EBT issuance dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 10.649.

What the 10.649 tables omit

The program hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a card-issuance log, not a child roster, and not a SNAP benefit file. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $632,470,260.85. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 89 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 53 jurisdictions is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already paid to state agencies.

Pandemic EBT Administrative Costs’ 53-jurisdiction map and 70-recipient headcount together describe a state-admin book, not a benefit-issuance ledger. A researcher comparing 10.649 with SNAP or school-meal codes should keep CFDA numbers separate. The $632.5M stock is the USAspending obligation book for this listing only.

Where the 10.649 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 10.649 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other USDA listings. For 10.649 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 10.649’s 89 awards spread $632,470,260.85 across 70 recipients and 53 jurisdictions. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 1.3 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Cards issued, children served, and P-EBT benefit dollars live in other USDA nutrition series. Those rows are outside $632,470,260.85 unless they share CFDA 10.649. Quote 89 as assistance records, 70 as organizational payees, and 53 as the geographic count.

Questions

How much is obligated for Pandemic EBT administrative costs?

USAspending.gov records $632.5M in obligations for CFDA 10.649. SpendingVault indexes 89 awards, 70 recipients, and 53 jurisdictions. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a count of P-EBT cards. CFDA 10.649’s $632,470,260.85 is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 10.649 carry?

The listing shows 89 awards against 70 recipients, or about 1.3 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $7.11 million per award. Award count is not a count of children or cards issued. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

Does 10.649 include P-EBT benefit payments?

The assistance-listing title is Pandemic EBT Administrative Costs. The $632.5M is the obligation stock for that admin code, not a benefit-issuance total. Other SNAP or P-EBT listings sit under different CFDA numbers. The packet does not report cards issued or children served.

Is $632.5M already paid for P-EBT administration?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 10.649’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or cards issued. The $632,470,260.85 on 89 awards is the obligation figure. Keep dollars, awards, recipients, and geography as separate units on the USAspending extract.