Social Security Retirement Insurance in New York
CFDA 96.002 — federal program obligations to New York
Total obligated
$185.44B
Awards
6K
USAspending.gov records $172,540,405,963 in obligations for Social Security Retirement Insurance (CFDA 96.002) with New York as place of performance, on 5,780 awards. The figure is the product of a program code and a state code, not a statement about how many New Yorkers collect retirement benefits. Obligations are not outlays. This page does not merge the cell into New York’s enacted budget or into SSA’s published beneficiary counts. SpendingVault only indexes the join.
Key figures
- CFDA 96.002 × New York records $172,540,405,963 in USAspending obligations.
- 5,780 awards sit under that sum; the mean is about $29.85 million per record, not a typical benefit.
- The join is not proof that New York caused or appropriated the spending.
- Cite obligations from USAspending.gov; do not relabel them as outlays.
A catalog number meeting a New York geography tag
CFDA 96.002 is Social Security Retirement Insurance. New York (NY) is the place-of-performance state on the awards in this extract. Together they produce $172,540,405,963 and 5,780 records. Drop either filter and the cell disappears. The join does not include other Social Security catalog numbers coded to New York, and it does not include 96.002 awards tagged to New Jersey, Connecticut, or any other state. Those rows belong to other program-by-state pairs.
Five thousand seven hundred eighty awards is a thinner record set than some other 96.002 state cells, yet the obligation sum is still $172,540,405,963. That contrast is a feature of how awards are booked, not proof that New York’s retirement program is concentrated, efficient, or unusual. Mean obligation per record is about $29,851,281 ($172,540,405,963 ÷ 5,780). The mean is a quotient of packet facts, not a typical monthly check and not a typical award “size” in the everyday sense.
Correlation of catalog number and state is not causation. New York’s appearance beside $172,540,405,963 does not mean the state appropriated the money, that Albany designed the program, or that SSA selected New York as a policy target. The overlay Social Security Retirement Insurance in New York holds the same pair in the live index.
Readers sometimes treat a large obligation cell as evidence that New York’s retiree population “explains” the dollars. This extract cannot support that claim. It has no population figure, no beneficiary count, and no age structure. The only facts on the table are $172,540,405,963, 5,780 awards, CFDA 96.002, and New York place-of-performance. Anything else is a different dataset.
What CFDA 96.002 contributes—and what it does not
Every dollar in $172,540,405,963 carries the retirement-insurance catalog title. The national program page at CFDA 96.002 removes the New York filter so readers can see the program without this state’s geography tag. This packet does not supply a national total, a multi-year trend, or a comparison to disability or survivors insurance, so none of those are quoted.
SSA statistical supplements that count beneficiaries by state are a separate publication series. They are not the 5,780 USAspending.gov award rows. Mixing those series with this join will double-count people or mislabel the $172,540,405,963 as a beneficiary ledger. Keep the two files apart.
Full analysis: Social Security Retirement Insurance federal funding in New York →
Questions
- How much is CFDA 96.002 in New York?
- USAspending.gov shows $172,540,405,963 in Social Security Retirement Insurance obligations across 5,780 awards with New York place-of-performance. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not New York’s full federal total.
- Why are there only 5,780 awards for such a large dollar figure?
- Award count is a row count, not a person count. $172,540,405,963 ÷ 5,780 is about $29.85 million per record as a mean. Large assistance vehicles and modifications can dominate dollars while keeping the row count modest. This packet does not list vehicle types.
- Is this New York’s Social Security Trust Fund share?
- No. The $172,540,405,963 is a USAspending.gov CFDA × state obligation cell. Trust Fund accounting and beneficiary counts live in other SSA series. This page does not convert the join into those series.
- Which page has the live numbers?
- Social Security Retirement Insurance in New York is the overlay. Use New York federal spending, New York programs, CFDA 96.002, and All spending ties for the parent views. Later ingests override this snapshot.
USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.
How this pair fits
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