Social Security Survivors Insurance — CFDA 96.004 obligations

What CFDA 96.004’s $272.72 billion measures

Assistance listing 96.004 is titled SOCIAL SECURITY SURVIVORS INSURANCE in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $272,722,367,014. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $272,722,367,014 as cash already paid to surviving spouses and children mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

181,971 awards sit under that dollar figure. Dividing $272,722,367,014 by 181,971 produces a mean near $1.50 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical monthly survivors benefit and not a lump-sum death payment. The hub does not publish a median.

181,971 awards and a recipient count of 0

The extract lists 181,971 awards and 0 recipients for CFDA 96.004. Award count is a record tally in the assistance files. Recipient count is how many organizational recipients the index stores. A recipient count of 0 is a file statistic. It is not a claim that no survivor was paid, and it is not a household census.

Readers should not infer a beneficiary list from the $272,722,367,014 total. The 181,971-award tally still describes volume. Repeat actions can increment that tally without creating a recipient row. Cite both numbers when the survivors-insurance figure is reused.

59 states on the survivors-insurance map

USAspending.gov place-of-performance coding for CFDA 96.004 reaches 59 states in this extract. That geographic span is a count of coded jurisdictions, not a map of every survivor, and not a forecast. The $272,722,367,014 obligation total is the dollar book behind that map. Later assistance files can change both dollars and the 59-state count.

A national action coded to one jurisdiction can dominate a cell while beneficiaries live elsewhere. Read the 96.004 program hub first, then any state split.

Obligations are not survivors outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $272,722,367,014 figure for CFDA 96.004 can include commitments that will disburse later. SSA survivors statistical tables and a single fiscal year’s appropriation are different publications. This page does not convert the obligation total into those series.

Keep the 181,971-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. Nothing on the hub is a claim-filing instruction.

How to cite CFDA 96.004

A complete citation is $272,722,367,014 in obligations for CFDA 96.004, covering 181,971 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 181,971 awards and then the dollar total.

Start with the Social Security Survivors Insurance program page, then the all-programs index to place 96.004 among other listings. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total. Ranking on dollars alone hides the empty recipient field.

A worked reading of the 96.004 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $272,722,367,014, 181,971 awards, 0 recipients, and 59 states under CFDA 96.004. The mean near $1.50 million is a quotient, not a typical survivors 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 181,971 count. The empty recipient field is not a family census.

Nothing in the extract assigns the $272,722,367,014 book to surviving spouses versus children versus other auxiliaries. Those cuts require SSA publications. Treat CFDA 96.004 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files. Open the survivors-insurance hub, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Keep 181,971 awards in the citation so volume is visible beside the dollars.

Readers comparing CFDA 96.004 across extracts should keep the 181,971-award count and the 59-state geography in the same sentence as $272,722,367,014. Dropping either volume fact turns the obligation total into a floating headline. SpendingVault’s program hub is the place to verify that the current file still carries those four packet facts, including the 0-recipient field. Survivors insurance is a separate listing from retirement and disability codes on this site.

Questions

How much is obligated under Social Security Survivors Insurance?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $272,722,367,014 in obligations for CFDA 96.004. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of monthly survivors checks. The same extract lists 181,971 awards, 59 states, and 0 indexed recipients.

What is CFDA 96.004 on federal award files?

CFDA 96.004 is the assistance listing number USAspending.gov uses for SOCIAL SECURITY SURVIVORS INSURANCE. SpendingVault keys the program hub to that code. The $272,722,367,014 obligation total and 181,971-award count are roll-ups of records carrying that listing, not a roster of surviving families.

Why does CFDA 96.004 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 survivor was paid. Award volume is still 181,971 records across 59 states. Do not treat the $272,722,367,014 total as a unique-payee sum.

Are survivors-insurance totals outlays or obligations?

They are obligations. An obligation is a legal commitment on an award. An outlay is cash leaving the Treasury. CFDA 96.004’s $272,722,367,014 headline is built from USAspending.gov assistance obligation amounts covering 181,971 awards, not from a cash-outlay series. Cite CFDA 96.004 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.