Department of Health and Human Services obligations in Pennsylvania 12th District (PA-12)
Congressional district PA-12 and Department of Health and Human Services (agency 075) join at $3,780,418,324.11 in tagged USAspending.gov obligations (1,457 awards). One thousand four hundred fifty-seven HHS-coded awards equal about twelve percent of PA-12’s district obligation total, a health-and-human-services column inside a thirty-three-billion-dollar district base. That pair is Department of Health and Human Services and Pennsylvania 12th District (PA-12) — not Pennsylvania’s entire federal inflow, not Department of Health and Human Services nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 11.6% of this district’s published obligation total ($32,614,970,959.69). Implied average obligation is about $2,594,659.11 ($3,780,418,324.11 ÷ 1,457). Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- HHS in Pennsylvania 12th District (PA-12): $3,780,418,324.11 across 1,457 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $2,594,659.11 per record; district share 11.6% of $32,614,970,959.69.
- Agency 075 × PA-12 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote Pennsylvania 12th District and Department of Health and Human Services if live tables moved.
- Pennsylvania federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $3,780,418,324.11.
How SpendingVault stores HHS in PA-12
Awarding agency 075 and congressional district PA-12 meet here. $3,780,418,324.11 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Health and Human Services’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Pennsylvania 12th District (PA-12), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split HHS operating divisions or contract versus assistance instruments. 1,457 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a patient census, a hospital roster, a grant-program pie, or a named-grantee file.
This page reports health-and-human-services awarding activity USAspending tagged to this district. The headline $3,780,418,324.11 sits beside a district-wide obligation total of $32,614,970,959.69; the 11.6% share is arithmetic on those two packet facts, not a ranking of Pennsylvania districts as winners or losers. District 90 and 98 placeholders are omitted from this harvest. Obligations are not outlays.
Reading Department of Health and Human Services without a recipient table
USAspending labels awarding agency 075 as Department of Health and Human Services. That code produced $3,780,418,324.11 when crossed with Pennsylvania 12th District (PA-12) place of performance. The agency-wide 075 hub does not require PA-12 geography. The district hub does not require HHS. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 1,457 awards. The packet does not split HHS operating divisions or contract versus assistance instruments.
Correlation is not causation: Pennsylvania 12th District (PA-12) did not cause $3,780,418,324.11 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 075 × PA-12 only. It is not a patient census, a hospital roster, a grant-program pie, or a named-grantee file. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.
Where Pennsylvania PA-12 sits in the join
Pennsylvania 12th District (PA-12) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list PA-12 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Pennsylvania districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 075. Pennsylvania 12th District (PA-12) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Pennsylvania. Other Pennsylvania districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 075. Pennsylvania 12th District (PA-12) is a numbered stamp, distinct from Pennsylvania 1st District’s SSA cell. HHS (075) and SSA (028) are different awarding-agency filters.
Keeping the obligation word on this cell
USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $3,780,418,324.11 is that kind of sum for Department of Health and Human Services inside PA-12 coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $3,780,418,324.11 as given.
Pennsylvania’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 1,457-row HHS cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 1,457 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. The implied mean ($2,594,659.11) is a concentration statistic, not a typical PA-12 HHS payment.
District, agency, and ties hubs for PA-12
Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Health and Human Services (agency 075) obligated $3,780,418,324.11 on 1,457 awards coded to Pennsylvania 12th District (PA-12). Name Department of Health and Human Services and Pennsylvania 12th District (PA-12) together. Keep the obligation word. If Pennsylvania 12th District or Department of Health and Human Services has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a patient census, a hospital roster, a grant-program pie, or a named-grantee file. 11.6% of $32,614,970,959.69 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.
Keep Department of Health and Human Services, Pennsylvania 12th District (PA-12), $3,780,418,324.11, and 1,457 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Health and Human Services is the 075 parent without a PA-12 filter. Pennsylvania federal spending is the Pennsylvania parent. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a district with HHS does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. This page reports one USAspending join.
No contractor table on the PA-12 HHS join
1,457 awards is a thick HHS file. Volume is not a hospital census and not a named-grantee list. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $2,594,659.11) and the district share (11.6% of $32,614,970,959.69) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Pennsylvania 12th District and Department of Health and Human Services if the live tables moved.
Questions
- How much HHS spending is coded to Pennsylvania 12th District (PA-12)?
- USAspending.gov lists $3,780,418,324.11 in HHS (agency 075) obligations across 1,457 awards coded to Pennsylvania 12th District (PA-12). That pair is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Pennsylvania’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 11.6% of the district’s published total ($32,614,970,959.69). Unique recipients are unpublished.
- Does $3,780,418,324.11 include every HHS program in PA-12?
- The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split HHS operating divisions or contract versus assistance instruments. $3,780,418,324.11 is the combined obligation sum for agency 075 inside PA-12 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. 1,457 remains an action count, not a program count.
- Is $3,780,418,324.11 cash already paid in Pennsylvania 12th District (PA-12)?
- No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $3,780,418,324.11 as checks already cleared in Pennsylvania 12th District (PA-12) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 1,457 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
- Can I add Pennsylvania federal spending to $3,780,418,324.11 for a bigger Pennsylvania total?
- No. Pennsylvania federal spending is a parent extract, not an amount to add into this cell. $3,780,418,324.11 already sits inside Pennsylvania geography as the PA-12 × 075 slice. Adding the state hub would double-count. Cite Department of Health and Human Services and Pennsylvania 12th District (PA-12) together. Obligations are not outlays.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.