Supplemental Security Income in Virginia

Virginia on the SSI table

CFDA 96.006 is titled SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME. Crossed with Virginia place of performance, obligations sum to $3,209,924,364 on 5,829 awards. The national Supplemental Security Income hub includes other states. Virginia’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $3,209,924,364 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a DDS caseload or an ALJ hearing count.

5,829 rows is a high-volume payment-instrument pattern. The implied mean of about $550,682 per award is a batch scale, not a typical monthly SSI check, and not a count of Virginians on SSI. The join does not name recipients, list contractors, or invent donor names. Packet facts stop at $3,209,924,364, 5,829 awards, VA, and 96.006. Correlation is not causation. Virginia’s 5,829 SSI instruments against $3,209,924,364 look like a payment-batch file, not a roster of Virginians receiving SSI.

Keep SSI separate from other SSA catalogs

The catalog title names Supplemental Security Income. It is not Social Security retirement, survivors, or disability insurance. Mixing other catalogs into $3,209,924,364 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Virginia, CFDA 96.006, $3,209,924,364, 5,829 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $3,209,924,364 by 5,829 yields about $550,682 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 5,829 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.

Questions

How much Supplemental Security Income funding is obligated in Virginia?

USAspending records $3,209,924,364 in CFDA 96.006 obligations with Virginia place of performance on 5,829 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Supplemental Security Income and Virginia together when citing $3,209,924,364. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 5,829 awards mean 5,829 people or contractors?

No. 5,829 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $550,682 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $3,209,924,364 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Is $3.21 billion Virginia’s complete federal income-support spend?

No. $3,209,924,364 is only the 96.006 × Virginia cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Virginia program pages. Nationwide 96.006 is not limited to Virginia. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 96.006 × VA pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Virginia 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–Virginia table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.