Supplemental Security Income in Louisiana

The 96.006–Louisiana intersection

CFDA 96.006 is titled SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME. Crossed with Louisiana place of performance, obligations sum to $3,359,882,186 on 4,271 awards. The national SSI hub includes other states. Louisiana’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this pair is reported here. $3,359,882,186 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of SSI recipients.

4,271 awards is a high-volume benefit pattern: SSI typically posts as many payment-related instruments rather than a single statewide lump. The join does not name field offices, list payees, or count beneficiaries. Packet facts stop at $3,359,882,186, 4,271 awards, LA, and 96.006. Correlation is not causation. 4,271 SSI instruments carrying $3,359,882,186 is a high-volume payment-batch pattern, not 4,271 recipients and not a ranking of Louisiana as poorer than another state.

SSI is not Social Security retirement in this cell

The catalog title names Supplemental Security Income, a needs-tested SSA line. Retirement, survivors, and disability insurance catalogs are different rows and are not mixed into $3,359,882,186. Facts available: Louisiana, CFDA 96.006, $3,359,882,186, 4,271 awards. Payment rates, living-arrangement codes, and recipient names are not in the facts.

Dividing $3,359,882,186 by 4,271 yields about $786,673 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 4,271 is not a census of people receiving SSI.

Questions

How much SSI is obligated in Louisiana?

USAspending records $3,359,882,186 in CFDA 96.006 obligations with Louisiana place of performance on 4,271 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not Social Security retirement. Keep SSI and Louisiana together when citing $3,359,882,186. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 4,271 awards mean 4,271 SSI recipients?

No. 4,271 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person or payee census. The implied mean is about $786,673 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $3,359,882,186 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Is $3.36 billion Louisiana’s full federal SSA spend?

No. $3,359,882,186 is only the 96.006 × Louisiana cell. Other SSA catalogs appear on separate Louisiana program pages. Nationwide 96.006 is not limited to Louisiana. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 96.006 × LA pair. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Have these SSI dollars already been paid?

The figure is an obligation aggregate, not an outlay. USAspending.gov is the source. FEC donations do not fund this cell. The overlay is the live SSI–Louisiana table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim. Keep both sides of the join when you cite the headline total.