Social Security Retirement Insurance — CFDA 96.002 obligations

What CFDA 96.002’s $3.04 trillion records

Assistance listing 96.002 is titled SOCIAL SECURITY RETIREMENT INSURANCE in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $3,041,365,405,202. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay, which is cash that has already left the Treasury. Treating $3,041,365,405,202 as money already paid to retirees mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations throughout this roll-up.

206,076 awards sit under that dollar figure. The award is the unit of the source file, not a household and not a monthly payment. One award record can be a large assistance action; the headline does not describe a typical benefit size. Dividing $3,041,365,405,202 by 206,076 produces a mean near $14.8 million per award record—an arithmetic quotient from the two packet totals, not a typical monthly retirement check.

206,076 awards and a recipient count of 0

The extract lists 206,076 awards and 0 recipients for CFDA 96.002. Those two counts answer different questions. Award count is how many assistance-award rows carry this listing. Recipient count is how many organizational recipients the index stores. A recipient count of 0 is a file statistic for this CFDA. It is not a claim that nobody received retirement insurance, and it is not a headcount of beneficiaries.

Because the recipient field is empty in this roll-up, readers should not infer a vendor list or a unique-payee list from the $3,041,365,405,202 total. The 206,076-award tally still describes volume in the assistance files. Repeat actions and modifications can increment that tally without creating a recipient row. Cite both numbers together when the retirement-insurance figure is reused.

59 states on the retirement-insurance map

USAspending.gov place-of-performance coding for CFDA 96.002 reaches 59 states in this extract. That geographic span is a count of coded jurisdictions, not a claim that every retiree lives in one of those cells, and not a forecast of future awards. The $3,041,365,405,202 obligation total is the dollar book behind that map. State shares can move when later assistance files are indexed; the 59-state count can move with them.

Place-of-performance is a coding field, not a complete picture of where beneficiaries live. A national action coded to one jurisdiction can dominate a cell. Read the 96.002 program hub first, then any state split, rather than treating a single state row as the full retirement-insurance story.

Obligations are not Social Security outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $3,041,365,405,202 figure for CFDA 96.002 can include commitments that will disburse later, and it can omit cash paid on actions this extract does not carry. SSA benefit-payment tables, trust-fund reports, and a single fiscal year’s enacted appropriation are different publications. This page does not convert the obligation total into those series.

Researchers sometimes collapse retirement insurance into a single “spending” number. For this listing, that reading is wrong. Keep the 206,076-award count and the 0-recipient count in view so the dollar total is not mistaken for a beneficiary census or a cash-paid sum.

How to read the CFDA 96.002 hub

Start with the Social Security Retirement Insurance program page, then the all-programs index if you need to place 96.002 among other assistance listings. Both views still describe USAspending.gov obligations, not outlays. Ranking this listing on dollars alone hides the 206,076-award volume and the empty recipient field. Nothing on the hub is eligibility advice or a judgment of SSA operations.

A complete citation is $3,041,365,405,202 in obligations for CFDA 96.002, covering 206,076 awards and 59 states, with 0 indexed recipients, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is record volume rather than dollars, lead with 206,076 awards and then the dollar total.

A worked reading of the 96.002 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $3,041,365,405,202, 206,076 awards, 0 recipients, and 59 states under CFDA 96.002. The mean near $14.8 million is a quotient, not a mode and not a monthly check. If a later USAspending.gov file adds award rows faster than dollars, the mean falls; if a few giant assistance actions post, the mean rises without a matching jump in the 206,076 count. The empty recipient field does not change when awards are added unless the extract begins storing organizational recipients.

Nothing in the extract assigns the $3,041,365,405,202 book to retired workers versus delayed claims versus other SSA internal splits. Those cuts require other SSA publications. Treat CFDA 96.002 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files and stop there. Ranking retirement insurance against other listings is valid only inside the same obligation definition. Open the program hub, then the all-programs index, when you need that comparison on the same series.

Questions

How much is obligated under Social Security Retirement Insurance?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $3,041,365,405,202 in obligations for CFDA 96.002, Social Security Retirement Insurance. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total. The same extract lists 206,076 awards, 59 states, and 0 indexed recipients.

What is CFDA 96.002 on federal award files?

CFDA 96.002 is the assistance listing number USAspending.gov uses for SOCIAL SECURITY RETIREMENT INSURANCE. SpendingVault keys the program hub to that code. The $3,041,365,405,202 obligation total and 206,076-award count on this page are roll-ups of records carrying that listing, not a beneficiary roster.

Why does CFDA 96.002 show 0 recipients?

The indexed recipient count for this listing is 0. That is a file statistic in the USAspending.gov assistance extract, not a statement that no one was paid. Award volume is still 206,076 records. Readers should not treat the $3,041,365,405,202 total as a unique-payee sum or a household count.

Are these Social Security figures outlays or obligations?

They are obligations. An obligation is a legal commitment on an award. An outlay is cash leaving the Treasury. CFDA 96.002’s $3,041,365,405,202 headline is built from USAspending.gov assistance obligation amounts, covering 206,076 awards across 59 states, not from a cash-outlay series.