Pension Plan Termination Insurance obligations in Maryland

PBGC catalog 86.001 × Maryland

CFDA 86.001 is titled PENSION PLAN TERMINATION INSURANCE. Crossed with Maryland as place of performance, the obligation sum is $3,641,125,524.09 on 23 awards. The national 86.001 page includes other states. Maryland’s spending hub includes other programs. Only the intersection belongs here.

Twenty-three awards is a thin row count for a multi-billion-dollar cell. Insurance-style assistance and trustee arrangements often post relatively few instruments with large obligation amounts. The join does not name the plans, the trustees, or whether Maryland is headquarters, claims processing, or another tagged location.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $3,641,125,524.09 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 86.001 and MD. The overlay table at the program-in-state path is the same cell rendered as a page; this narrative is the join explained in prose. Nothing here ranks Maryland against other states on need, performance, or politics.

Maryland hosts a large federal-benefits footprint in USAspending tables, which can make a $3,641,125,524.09 PBGC-catalog cell look like a local pension crisis. It is not. Twenty-three awards at about $158.31 million each describe insurance-style assistance tagged MD. Participant residence, plan headquarters, and claims-processing sites can differ from the geography code.

What the catalog covers—and what it does not

Pension Plan Termination Insurance is the CFDA title attached to 86.001. Other retirement, Social Security, and labor catalogs use other numbers. Folding those into $3,641,125,524.09 would invent a broader pension total than the facts support.

Packet facts: Maryland, CFDA 86.001, $3,641,125,524.09, 23 awards. Premium collections, participant counts, and funded-status ratios are not in those facts. The page reports USAspending obligations for the pair, not an actuarial valuation.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $3,641,125,524.09, 23 awards, CFDA 86.001, program title Pension Plan Termination Insurance, and geography MD/Maryland. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 23 awards into $3,641,125,524.09 is about $158.31 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

CFDA 86.001 is a narrow insurance catalog. Social Security, federal employee retirement, and labor programs use other numbers. $3,641,125,524.09 on 23 awards is not a census of Maryland retirees and not a funded-status ratio.

Maryland’s tag versus the rest of federal spending

MD is the place-of-performance code. PBGC and related operations have a substantial Maryland footprint in federal tables, but this join still does not prove that every insured participant lives in Maryland. Awards coded to other states sit outside $3,641,125,524.09.

Maryland federal spending is the all-program parent. Readers comparing this cell to HHS or Defense totals in Maryland are comparing different CFDA and agency filters, not a single ranked list of “most important” programs.

Place of performance MD is a two-letter code in the award file. It can mark a state capital, a campus, a housing authority, a transit agency, or a default statewide tag. It does not prove where every subcontract ran, and it does not convert $3,641,125,524.09 into a county map. Awards with a different state code are outside this cell even if people, patients, or riders cross the border.

Twenty-three awards and a $158 million mean

$3,641,125,524.09 ÷ 23 is about $158.3 million per award. With n = 23, a few large instruments dominate the average. The mean is not a typical retiree check and not a median. Net obligations can include negative modifications in the source file; the figure shown is the aggregate supplied in the facts.

Treat 23 as a record count in an aggregate, not as 23 finished projects. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; the $3,641,125,524.09 figure is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see how many of the 23 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections.

Using the Pension Plan Termination Insurance–Maryland overlay

The overlay target for this tie is the Maryland × CFDA 86.001 table. Open that path when you want the same $3,641,125,524.09 / 23-award cell in the site’s data chrome. The national program page for CFDA 86.001 drops the Maryland filter. The Maryland spending hub drops the CFDA filter. The Maryland programs index lists other catalogs beside Pension Plan Termination Insurance. All spending ties is the directory of other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to argue that Maryland “won” or “lost” federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. Correlation is not causation. The headline number remains $3,641,125,524.09 on 23 awards, from USAspending.gov, for Pension Plan Termination Insurance in Maryland.

Caveats on the pair

A large 86.001 total tagged to Maryland does not mean Maryland caused plan terminations, and it does not equal benefits paid. FEC contribution files are a separate system. Correlation is not causation.

Continue at Pension Plan Termination Insurance in Maryland, CFDA 86.001, Maryland federal spending, Maryland programs, and All spending ties.

Questions

How much Pension Plan Termination Insurance funding is obligated in Maryland?

USAspending records $3,641,125,524.09 in CFDA 86.001 obligations with Maryland place of performance across 23 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not every federal retirement program.

Why are there only 23 awards?

The facts show 23 awards totaling $3,641,125,524.09. This catalog often posts a small number of large instruments. Recipient names and plan names are not in the packet facts.

Is this Maryland’s total federal spending?

No. The join filters CFDA 86.001 only. Other programs appear on the Maryland programs list and the statewide spending hub.

Does this measure pension benefits paid to Maryland residents?

No. Place of performance is a USAspending geography tag. The $3,641,125,524.09 figure is obligations for the pair, not a resident benefit census.