Railroad Retirement Board obligations in Pennsylvania 14th District (PA-14)

A place-of-performance join: RRB × PA-14

Awarding agency 060 and congressional district PA-14 meet here. $40,237,723.69 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 Pennsylvania 14th District (PA-14), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split retirement, survivor, or unemployment-insurance instruments inside the Railroad Retirement Board. 252 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. This cell is not a railroad-retiree census, a benefit-check register, or a named-beneficiary file.

Dividing $40,237,723.69 by 252 yields about $159,673.51 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical annuity, survivor payment, or sickness-benefit line. Two hundred fifty-two awards is a mid-size award file. Do not treat PA-14’s 060 cell as a synonym for every RRB account nationwide. Open Pennsylvania 14th District for the district table without this agency filter, Railroad Retirement Board for agency 060 without the PA-14 filter, Pennsylvania federal spending for every awarding agency in the Pennsylvania extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $40,237,723.69.

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

USAspending labels awarding agency 060 as Railroad Retirement Board. That code produced $40,237,723.69 when crossed with Pennsylvania 14th District (PA-14) place of performance. The agency-wide 060 hub does not require PA-14 geography. The district hub does not require RRB. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 252 awards. The packet does not split retirement, survivor, or unemployment-insurance instruments inside the Railroad Retirement Board.

Correlation is not causation: Pennsylvania 14th District (PA-14) did not cause $40,237,723.69 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 060 × PA-14 only. This cell is not a railroad-retiree census, a benefit-check register, or a named-beneficiary 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 Pennsylvania 14th District (PA-14)

Pennsylvania 14th District (PA-14) 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-14 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Pennsylvania districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 060. Pennsylvania 14th District (PA-14) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Pennsylvania. Other Pennsylvania districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 060.

Obligation math for this join

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $40,237,723.69 is that kind of sum for Railroad Retirement Board inside PA-14 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 $40,237,723.69 as given.

Pennsylvania’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 252-row RRB cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 252 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 ($159,673.51) is a concentration statistic, not a typical PA-14 RRB payment.

What a complete citation includes

Cite USAspending.gov: Railroad Retirement Board (agency 060) obligated $40,237,723.69 on 252 awards coded to Pennsylvania 14th District (PA-14). Name Railroad Retirement Board and Pennsylvania 14th District (PA-14) together. Keep the obligation word. If Pennsylvania 14th District or Railroad Retirement Board has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a railroad-retiree census, a benefit-check register, or a named-beneficiary file. 0.8% of $5,308,862,348.39 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

What this packet refuses to infer

Two hundred fifty-two awards is a mid-size award file. Volume can hide a few large assistance lines; the packet does not identify them. Unique recipients are unpublished. 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 $159,673.51) and the district share (0.8% of $5,308,862,348.39) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Pennsylvania 14th District and Railroad Retirement Board if the live tables moved.

Do not rank Pennsylvania 14th District (PA-14) 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 $40,237,723.69 and 252 only. All spending ties is the index, not an addend. Obligations are not outlays. Correlation is not causation. Annuitant counts, railroad employment, and named beneficiaries are unpublished here.

Questions

How much RRB spending is coded to Pennsylvania 14th District (PA-14)?

USAspending.gov lists $40,237,723.69 in RRB (agency 060) obligations across 252 awards coded to Pennsylvania 14th District (PA-14). That pair is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Pennsylvania’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 0.8% of the district’s published total ($5,308,862,348.39). Unique recipients are unpublished.

Does this include every Railroad Retirement Board program in PA-14?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup for agency 060. It does not split Board instruments. $40,237,723.69 is the combined obligation sum inside PA-14 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name beneficiaries. 252 remains an action count, not a person count.

Is $40,237,723.69 cash already paid in Pennsylvania 14th District (PA-14)?

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 $40,237,723.69 as checks already cleared in Pennsylvania 14th District (PA-14) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 252 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

Is Pennsylvania 14th District (PA-14) ranked against other Pennsylvania districts here?

No. This page does not rank Pennsylvania 14th District (PA-14) as a winner or loser. $40,237,723.69 and 252 describe one join. Neighboring districts have their own cells. District 90/98 placeholders are omitted. Cite Railroad Retirement Board and Pennsylvania 14th District (PA-14) together without a league table.