Supplemental Security Income in Alabama

Alabama on the 96.006 table

CFDA 96.006 is titled SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME. Crossed with Alabama place of performance, obligations sum to $2,956,289,048 on 4,455 awards. The national Supplemental Security Income hub includes other states. Alabama’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,956,289,048 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a county caseload or a hearing docket.

4,455 awards is a high-volume SSI pattern close to Louisiana’s 4,271-row cell, with an implied mean of about $663,589 per award. That mean is a payment-batch scale, not a typical monthly SSI check and not a ranking of states by need. The join does not name recipients, list contractors, or invent donor names. Packet facts stop at $2,956,289,048, 4,455 awards, AL, and 96.006. Correlation is not causation. Alabama’s 4,455 SSI instruments against $2,956,289,048 look like Louisiana’s high-count SSI pattern without ranking either state as worse off.

Do not fold SSI into other SSA catalogs

The catalog title names Supplemental Security Income. It is not Social Security retirement or disability insurance. Mixing other catalogs into $2,956,289,048 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Alabama, CFDA 96.006, $2,956,289,048, 4,455 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $2,956,289,048 by 4,455 yields about $663,589 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 4,455 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.

Questions

How much Supplemental Security Income funding is obligated in Alabama?

USAspending records $2,956,289,048 in CFDA 96.006 obligations with Alabama place of performance on 4,455 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Supplemental Security Income and Alabama together when citing $2,956,289,048. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 4,455 awards mean 4,455 people or contractors?

No. 4,455 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $663,589 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $2,956,289,048 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does a high SSI award count mean Alabama is worse off?

No. $2,956,289,048 is only the 96.006 × Alabama cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Alabama program pages. Nationwide 96.006 is not limited to Alabama. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 96.006 × AL pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Alabama as better or worse.

Have these Supplemental Security Income dollars already been paid?

The figure is an obligation aggregate, not an outlay. USAspending.gov is the source. This join does not name recipients or contractors. FEC donations do not fund this cell. The overlay is the live Supplemental Security Income–Alabama table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.