Railroad social insurance obligations in Minnesota

Minnesota joined to CFDA 57.001

CFDA 57.001 is titled SOCIAL INSURANCE FOR RAILROAD WORKERS. Crossed with Minnesota place of performance, obligations sum to $852,722,863.77 on 7,959 awards. The national 57.001 hub includes other states. Minnesota’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $852,722,863.77 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of rail miles in the Twin Cities or Duluth.

Seven thousand nine hundred fifty-nine awards is a high-volume benefit pattern: railroad retirement and related insurance often posts as many discrete assistance records rather than one statewide block. The join does not name beneficiaries, railroads, or union locals. Packet facts are $852,722,863.77, 7,959 awards, MN, and 57.001. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

57.001 is not Social Security in Minnesota

Social Security retirement and disability use different CFDA numbers. Mixing those series into $852,722,863.77 would invent a broader retirement total than this cell contains. Facts available: Minnesota, CFDA 57.001, $852,722,863.77, 7,959 awards. Annuitant counts, average monthly benefits, and carrier names are not in the facts.

The catalog title names social insurance for railroad workers, not a ranking of Class I systems. Dividing $852,722,863.77 by 7,959 yields about $107,140 per award—closer to a benefit instrument than to a capital grant. Unique recipients are unpublished. 7,959 is not a count of workers still on payroll.

Minnesota geography on the railroad-insurance tag

MN is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth, or other in-state sites can share the tag. Awards coded to Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, or South Dakota stay outside $852,722,863.77 even when a retiree later lives across those lines. The code does not convert $852.72 million into a route map.

Minnesota federal spending is the all-program parent. 57.001 is one row on Minnesota programs. $852.72 million is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Social Insurance For Railroad Workers in Minnesota for the filtered table, CFDA 57.001 for the catalog without a Minnesota filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $852,722,863.77.

Reading 7,959 awards under $852.72 million

$852,722,863.77 ÷ 7,959 is about $107,140 per award. That average is a benefit-record scale, not a median annuity and not a per-household cost. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 7,959 as a record count, not as 7,959 living annuitants.

Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 7,959 rows are continuations, corrections, or one-time payments. Later ingests can restate $852,722,863.77 without changing the join key of 57.001 and MN. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $852,722,863.77 is the net total supplied in the facts.

What the 57.001–Minnesota pair does not prove

A large 57.001 total tagged to Minnesota 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 $852,722,863.77 on 7,959 awards for railroad social insurance in Minnesota.

Keep both sides of the join: Social Insurance For Railroad Workers and Minnesota, obligations only. Do not annualize $852,722,863.77 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 7,959 as a workforce census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a labor-market story. Cite Social Insurance For Railroad Workers together with Minnesota whenever you reuse $852,722,863.77.

Using the 57.001–Minnesota overlay

The overlay target is the Minnesota × CFDA 57.001 table. Open Social Insurance For Railroad Workers in Minnesota when you want the same $852,722,863.77 / 7,959-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 57.001 drops the Minnesota filter. Minnesota federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Minnesota 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 Minnesota won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 57.001 plus MN. Obligations of $852,722,863.77 are not outlays.

Questions

How much railroad worker insurance is obligated in Minnesota?

USAspending records $852,722,863.77 in CFDA 57.001 obligations with Minnesota place of performance on 7,959 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not Social Security. Keep Social Insurance For Railroad Workers and Minnesota together when citing $852,722,863.77.

Does 7,959 awards mean 7,959 railroad employees?

7,959 is a USAspending award-record count, not an employment census. The implied mean is about $107,140 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 7,959 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Is this Minnesota’s total federal retirement spending?

No. This join is CFDA 57.001 only. Social Security and other catalogs appear on separate Minnesota program pages. Nationwide 57.001 is not limited to Minnesota. Obligations of $852,722,863.77 are not outlays. The overlay is the live 57.001–Minnesota table.

Do these obligations equal benefits paid?

No. $852,722,863.77 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 × MN pair.