State Administrative Matching Grants for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Virginia

Virginia paired with CFDA 10.561

CFDA 10.561 is titled STATE ADMINISTRATIVE MATCHING GRANTS FOR THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. Crossed with Virginia place of performance, obligations sum to $849,708,475.57 on 28 awards. The national 10.561 hub includes other states. Virginia’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $849,708,475.57 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of SNAP households in Northern Virginia.

Twenty-eight awards is a state-admin matching pattern: SNAP administration often posts as a modest number of large assistance instruments rather than one record per household. The join does not name recipients. Packet facts are $849,708,475.57, 28 awards, VA, and 10.561. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep SNAP administrative matching grants and Virginia together when reading $849,708,475.57.

10.561 is not SNAP benefits in Virginia

SNAP benefit issuance (a different CFDA) is not this cell. Mixing those series into $849,708,475.57 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Virginia, CFDA 10.561, $849,708,475.57, 28 awards. Caseload counts, error rates, and retailer names are unpublished.

The catalog title names state administrative matching grants for SNAP, not a ranking of local departments of social services. Dividing $849,708,475.57 by 28 yields about $30.35 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 28 is not a household or county census.

Questions

How much SNAP administrative matching is obligated in Virginia?

USAspending records $849,708,475.57 in CFDA 10.561 obligations with Virginia place of performance on 28 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep State Administrative Matching Grants For The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Virginia together when citing $849,708,475.57.

Does 28 awards mean 28 Virginia localities?

28 is a USAspending award-record count, not a household or county census. The implied mean is about $30.35 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 28 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Is this Virginia’s total SNAP spending?

No. This join is CFDA 10.561 only. Benefit issuance and other USDA catalogs appear on separate Virginia program pages. Nationwide 10.561 is not limited to Virginia. Obligations of $849,708,475.57 are not outlays. The overlay is the live SNAP administrative matching grants–Virginia table.

Do these obligations equal SNAP benefits paid?

No. $849,708,475.57 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 10.561 × VA pair.