Social Insurance for Railroad Workers in Arizona

Arizona joined to CFDA 57.001

CFDA 57.001 is titled SOCIAL INSURANCE FOR RAILROAD WORKERS. Crossed with Arizona place of performance, obligations sum to $713,978,273.45 on 1,828 awards. The national 57.001 hub includes other states. Arizona’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $713,978,273.45 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of rail miles in Phoenix.

One thousand eight hundred twenty-eight awards is a high-volume benefit pattern: railroad retirement often posts as many discrete assistance records rather than one statewide block. The join does not name recipients. Packet facts are $713,978,273.45, 1,828 awards, AZ, and 57.001. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep railroad social insurance and Arizona together when reading $713,978,273.45.

57.001 is not Social Security in Arizona

Social Security retirement and disability use different CFDA numbers. Mixing those series into $713,978,273.45 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Arizona, CFDA 57.001, $713,978,273.45, 1,828 awards. Annuitant counts, average monthly benefits, and carrier names are unpublished.

The catalog title names social insurance for railroad workers, not a ranking of Class I systems. Dividing $713,978,273.45 by 1,828 yields about $390,579 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 1,828 is not a worker or retiree census.

Questions

How much railroad worker insurance is obligated in Arizona?

USAspending records $713,978,273.45 in CFDA 57.001 obligations with Arizona place of performance on 1,828 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Social Insurance For Railroad Workers and Arizona together when citing $713,978,273.45.

Does 1,828 awards mean 1,828 railroad employees in Arizona?

1,828 is a USAspending award-record count, not a worker or retiree census. The implied mean is about $390,579 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 1,828 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Is this Arizona’s total federal retirement spending?

No. This join is CFDA 57.001 only. Social Security and other catalogs appear on separate Arizona program pages. Nationwide 57.001 is not limited to Arizona. Obligations of $713,978,273.45 are not outlays. The overlay is the live railroad social insurance–Arizona table.

Do these obligations equal benefits paid?

No. $713,978,273.45 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Drawdowns can lag the federal obligation. This packet has no outlay total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 57.001 × AZ pair.