Railroad social insurance obligations in Arizona

Arizona joined to CFDA 57.001

CFDA 57.001 is titled SOCIAL INSURANCE FOR RAILROAD WORKERS. Crossed with Arizona place of performance, obligations sum to $713,978,273.45 on 1,828 awards. The national 57.001 hub includes other states. Arizona’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $713,978,273.45 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of rail miles in Phoenix.

One thousand eight hundred twenty-eight 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 $713,978,273.45, 1,828 awards, AZ, and 57.001. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep railroad social insurance and Arizona together when reading $713,978,273.45.

57.001 is not Social Security in Arizona

Social Security retirement and disability use different CFDA numbers. Mixing those series into $713,978,273.45 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Arizona, CFDA 57.001, $713,978,273.45, 1,828 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 Annuitant counts, average monthly benefits, and carrier names are unpublished.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 $713,978,273.45 by 1,828 yields about $390,579 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 1,828 is not a worker or retiree census.

Arizona geography on the railroad-insurance tag

AZ is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to Phoenix, Tucson, Yuma, or other in-state sites can share the tag. Awards coded to California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, or Colorado stay outside $713,978,273.45 even when activity later crosses those lines. The code does not convert $713.98 million into a route map.

Arizona federal spending is the all-program parent. 57.001 is one row on Arizona programs. $713.98 million is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Social Insurance For Railroad Workers in Arizona for the filtered table, CFDA 57.001 for the catalog without a Arizona filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $713,978,273.45.

Reading 1,828 awards under $713.98 million

$713,978,273.45 ÷ 1,828 is about $390,579 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 1,828 as a record count, not as 1,828 living annuitants.

Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 1,828 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $713,978,273.45 without changing the join key of 57.001 and AZ. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $713,978,273.45 is the net total supplied in the facts. The pair remains railroad social insurance plus Arizona. Do not treat $713,978,273.45 as an outlay series.

What the 57.001–Arizona pair does not prove

A large 57.001 total tagged to Arizona 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 $713,978,273.45 on 1,828 awards for railroad social insurance in Arizona.

Keep both sides of the join: Social Insurance For Railroad Workers and Arizona, obligations only. Do not annualize $713,978,273.45 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 1,828 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 Arizona whenever you reuse $713,978,273.45.

Using the 57.001–Arizona overlay

The overlay target is the Arizona × CFDA 57.001 table. Open Social Insurance For Railroad Workers in Arizona when you want the same $713,978,273.45 / 1,828-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 57.001 drops the Arizona filter. Arizona federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Arizona 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 Arizona won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 57.001 plus AZ. Obligations of $713,978,273.45 are not outlays. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 57.001 × AZ pair. 1,828 remains an award-record count, not a person, facility, or project census.

Questions

How much railroad worker insurance is obligated in Arizona?

USAspending records $713,978,273.45 in CFDA 57.001 obligations with Arizona place of performance on 1,828 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Social Insurance For Railroad Workers and Arizona together when citing $713,978,273.45.

Does 1,828 awards mean 1,828 railroad employees in Arizona?

1,828 is a USAspending award-record count, not a worker or retiree census. The implied mean is about $390,579 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 1,828 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Is this Arizona’s total federal retirement spending?

No. This join is CFDA 57.001 only. Social Security and other catalogs appear on separate Arizona program pages. Nationwide 57.001 is not limited to Arizona. Obligations of $713,978,273.45 are not outlays. The overlay is the live railroad social insurance–Arizona table.

Do these obligations equal benefits paid?

No. $713,978,273.45 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 × AZ pair.