Railroad Retirement Board obligations in Illinois 5th District (IL-05)

A place-of-performance join: RRB × IL-05

Awarding agency 060 and congressional district IL-05 meet here. $146,620,362.62 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Railroad Retirement Board’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Illinois 5th District (IL-05), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split RRB benefit lines or contract versus assistance instruments. 160 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a beneficiary census, a railroad-mile inventory, or a named-contractor file.

Dividing $146,620,362.62 by 160 yields about $916,377.27 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 160 awards is a compact RRB file. The implied mean is not a typical monthly benefit, and the packet does not publish a beneficiary denominator. Do not treat IL-05’s 060 cell as a synonym for every RRB account nationwide. Open Illinois 5th District for the district table without this agency filter, Railroad Retirement Board for agency 060 without the IL-05 filter, Illinois federal spending for every awarding agency in the Illinois extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $146,620,362.62.

Railroad Retirement Board as awarding agency, not as a named-vendor list

USAspending labels awarding agency 060 as Railroad Retirement Board. That code produced $146,620,362.62 when crossed with Illinois 5th District (IL-05) place of performance. The agency-wide 060 hub does not require IL-05 geography. The district hub does not require RRB. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 160 awards. The packet does not split RRB benefit lines or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Illinois 5th District (IL-05) did not “cause” $146,620,362.62 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 060 × IL-05 only. It is not a beneficiary census, a railroad-mile inventory, or a named-contractor 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.

Place of performance for Illinois 5th District (IL-05)

Illinois 5th District (IL-05) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list IL-05 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Illinois districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 060. Illinois 5th District (IL-05) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Illinois. Other Illinois districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 060. Illinois 5th District (IL-05) is a numbered place-of-performance geography inside Illinois, distinct from Illinois 4th District’s Labor and Treasury cells. Do not merge those Illinois pairs.

Obligation math for this join

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $146,620,362.62 is that kind of sum for Railroad Retirement Board inside IL-05 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 $146,620,362.62 as given.

Illinois’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 160-row RRB cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 160 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 ($916,377.27) is a concentration statistic, not a typical IL-05 RRB payment.

What a complete citation includes

Cite USAspending.gov: Railroad Retirement Board (agency 060) obligated $146,620,362.62 on 160 awards coded to Illinois 5th District (IL-05). Name Railroad Retirement Board and Illinois 5th District (IL-05) together. Keep the obligation word. If Illinois 5th District or Railroad Retirement Board has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a beneficiary census, a railroad-mile inventory, or a named-contractor file. 4.2% of $3,509,947,887.23 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Using 4.2% and $916,377.27 without overclaiming

160 awards is a compact RRB file. The implied mean is not a typical monthly benefit, and the packet does not publish a beneficiary denominator. 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 $916,377.27) and the district share (4.2% of $3,509,947,887.23) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Illinois 5th District and Railroad Retirement Board if the live tables moved.

Do not rank Illinois 5th District (IL-05) as more RRB-dependent than neighboring districts on the strength of this cell alone. Neighboring geographies have their own 060 ties with different dollar totals, or no published 060 cell in this harvest. This snapshot holds $146,620,362.62 and 160 only. All spending ties is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much RRB spending is coded to Illinois 5th District (IL-05)?

USAspending.gov lists $146,620,362.62 in Railroad Retirement Board obligations across 160 awards with place of performance in Illinois 5th District (IL-05). Agency 060 × IL-05 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Illinois’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 4.2% of the district’s published total ($3,509,947,887.23). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $916,377.27, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does $146,620,362.62 include every RRB program in IL-05?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split RRB benefit lines or contract versus assistance instruments. $146,620,362.62 is the combined obligation sum for agency 060 inside IL-05 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Railroad Retirement Board and Illinois 5th District to inspect parent tables. 160 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $146,620,362.62 cash already paid in Illinois 5th District (IL-05)?

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 $146,620,362.62 as checks already cleared in Illinois 5th District (IL-05) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 160 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

Is Illinois 5th District (IL-05) ranked against other Illinois districts here?

No. This page does not rank Illinois 5th District (IL-05) as a winner or loser. $146,620,362.62 and 160 describe one join. Neighboring districts have their own cells. District 90/98 placeholders are omitted. Cite Railroad Retirement Board and Illinois 5th District (IL-05) together without a league table.