Supplemental Security Income — CFDA 96.006 obligations

What CFDA 96.006’s $154.09 billion measures

Assistance listing 96.006 is titled SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $154,085,315,608. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $154,085,315,608 as cash already paid to SSI recipients mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

171,137 awards sit under that dollar figure. Dividing $154,085,315,608 by 171,137 produces a mean near $900,000 per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical monthly SSI payment and not a federal benefit rate. The hub does not publish a median; only the sum and the 171,137 count are in this packet.

171,137 awards and a recipient count of 0

The extract lists 171,137 awards and 0 recipients for CFDA 96.006. 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 one received SSI, and it is not a household census.

Readers should not infer a beneficiary list from the $154,085,315,608 total. The 171,137-award tally still describes volume. Repeat actions can increment that tally without creating a recipient row. Cite both numbers when the SSI figure is reused.

56 states in the SSI extract

USAspending.gov place-of-performance coding for CFDA 96.006 reaches 56 states in this extract. That geographic span is a count of coded jurisdictions, not a map of every SSI household, and not a forecast. The $154,085,315,608 obligation total is the dollar book behind that map. Later assistance files can change both dollars and the 56-state count.

A national action coded to one jurisdiction can dominate a cell while beneficiaries live elsewhere. Read the 96.006 program hub first, then any state split, rather than treating a single state row as the full SSI story.

Obligations are not SSI outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $154,085,315,608 figure for CFDA 96.006 can include commitments that will disburse later. SSA SSI 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 171,137-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 an eligibility determination.

How to cite CFDA 96.006

A complete citation is $154,085,315,608 in obligations for CFDA 96.006, covering 171,137 awards and 56 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 171,137 awards and then the dollar total.

Start with the Supplemental Security Income program page, then the all-programs index. 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 96.006 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $154,085,315,608, 171,137 awards, 0 recipients, and 56 states under CFDA 96.006. The mean near $900,000 is a quotient, not a federal benefit rate. 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 171,137 count. The empty recipient field is not an SSI household roster.

Nothing in the extract assigns the $154,085,315,608 book to aged versus blind versus disabled categories, or to federal versus state supplementary payments. Those cuts require SSA publications. Treat CFDA 96.006 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files. Open the SSI program page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Keep 171,137 awards in the citation beside the dollars.

Readers comparing CFDA 96.006 across extracts should keep the 171,137-award count and the 56-state geography in the same sentence as $154,085,315,608. 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. SSI is need-tested assistance in the listing title; this page still reports obligations only.

Questions

How much is obligated under Supplemental Security Income?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $154,085,315,608 in obligations for CFDA 96.006. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of monthly SSI checks. The same extract lists 171,137 awards, 56 states, and 0 indexed recipients.

What is CFDA 96.006 on federal award files?

CFDA 96.006 is the assistance listing number USAspending.gov uses for SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME. SpendingVault keys the program hub to that code. The $154,085,315,608 obligation total and 171,137-award count are roll-ups of records carrying that listing, not a roster of SSI households.

Why does CFDA 96.006 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 171,137 records across 56 states. Do not treat the $154,085,315,608 total as a unique-payee sum.

Are SSI USAspending totals outlays or obligations?

They are obligations. An obligation is a legal commitment on an award. An outlay is cash leaving the Treasury. CFDA 96.006’s $154,085,315,608 headline is built from USAspending.gov assistance obligation amounts covering 171,137 awards, not from a cash-outlay series. Cite CFDA 96.006 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.