Railroad social insurance obligations in Alabama

Alabama joined to CFDA 57.001

CFDA 57.001 is titled SOCIAL INSURANCE FOR RAILROAD WORKERS. Crossed with Alabama place of performance, obligations sum to $640,812,709.48 on 6,199 awards. The national 57.001 hub includes other states. Alabama’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $640,812,709.48 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of rail miles in Birmingham.

Six thousand one hundred ninety-nine awards is a high-volume benefit pattern: railroad retirement often posts as many discrete assistance records rather than one statewide block. The join does not name recipients. Packet facts are $640,812,709.48, 6,199 awards, AL, and 57.001. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep railroad social insurance and Alabama together when reading $640,812,709.48.

57.001 is not Social Security in Alabama

Social Security retirement and disability use different CFDA numbers. Mixing those series into $640,812,709.48 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Alabama, CFDA 57.001, $640,812,709.48, 6,199 awards. Annuitant counts, average monthly benefits, and carrier names are unpublished.

The catalog title names social insurance for railroad workers, not a ranking of Class I systems. Dividing $640,812,709.48 by 6,199 yields about $103,374 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 6,199 is not a worker or retiree census.

Alabama geography on the railroad-insurance tag

AL is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to Birmingham, Mobile, Montgomery, or other in-state sites can share the tag. Awards coded to Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, or Florida stay outside $640,812,709.48 even when activity later crosses those lines. The code does not convert $640.81 million into a route map.

Alabama federal spending is the all-program parent. 57.001 is one row on Alabama programs. $640.81 million is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Social Insurance For Railroad Workers in Alabama for the filtered table, CFDA 57.001 for the catalog without a Alabama filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $640,812,709.48.

Reading 6,199 awards under $640.81 million

$640,812,709.48 ÷ 6,199 is about $103,374 per award. That average is a benefit-record scale, not a median annuity, not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 6,199 as a record count, not as 6,199 living annuitants.

Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 6,199 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $640,812,709.48 without changing the join key of 57.001 and AL. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $640,812,709.48 is the net total supplied in the facts. The pair remains railroad social insurance plus Alabama. Do not treat $640,812,709.48 as an outlay series.

What the 57.001–Alabama pair does not prove

A large 57.001 total tagged to Alabama does not measure whether rail employment rose, and it does not equal checks cashed. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $640,812,709.48 on 6,199 awards for railroad social insurance in Alabama.

Keep both sides of the join: Social Insurance For Railroad Workers and Alabama, obligations only. Do not annualize $640,812,709.48 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 6,199 as a worker or retiree census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a labor-market story. Cite railroad social insurance together with Alabama whenever you reuse $640,812,709.48.

Using the 57.001–Alabama overlay

The overlay target is the Alabama × CFDA 57.001 table. Open Social Insurance For Railroad Workers in Alabama when you want the same $640,812,709.48 / 6,199-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 57.001 drops the Alabama filter. Alabama federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Alabama programs lists other catalogs beside 57.001. All spending ties indexes 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 Alabama won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 57.001 plus AL. Obligations of $640,812,709.48 are not outlays. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 57.001 × AL pair. 6,199 remains an award-record count, not a person, facility, or project census.

Questions

How much railroad worker insurance is obligated in Alabama?

USAspending records $640,812,709.48 in CFDA 57.001 obligations with Alabama place of performance on 6,199 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Social Insurance For Railroad Workers and Alabama together when citing $640,812,709.48.

Does 6,199 awards mean 6,199 railroad employees in Alabama?

6,199 is a USAspending award-record count, not a worker or retiree census. The implied mean is about $103,374 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 6,199 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Is this Alabama’s total federal retirement spending?

No. This join is CFDA 57.001 only. Social Security and other catalogs appear on separate Alabama program pages. Nationwide 57.001 is not limited to Alabama. Obligations of $640,812,709.48 are not outlays. The overlay is the live railroad social insurance–Alabama table.

Do these obligations equal benefits paid?

No. $640,812,709.48 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Drawdowns can lag the federal obligation. This packet has no outlay total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 57.001 × AL pair.