Social Insurance For Railroad Workers (CFDA 57.001) in Virginia
USAspending.gov records $1,061,181,075.52 in Social Insurance For Railroad Workers obligations under CFDA 57.001 with place of performance in Virginia, across 11,589 awards. That is an unusually high row count next to a roughly billion-dollar sum: the mean falls to about $91,568 per award. The page joins catalog 57.001 to state VA. It is not a payroll file for every rail employee in Virginia, and it is not the state’s complete federal total.
Key figures
- CFDA 57.001 shows $1,061,181,075.52 in Virginia obligations on 11,589 awards.
- Mean obligation is about $91,568 per award.
- A thick award file lowers the mean versus concentrated program–state cells.
- Figures are USAspending obligations, not outlays.
A high-volume insurance cell, not a capital grant
CFDA 57.001 is titled Social Insurance For Railroad Workers. Virginia is the place-of-performance state. $1,061,181,075.52 sums obligations on records that carry both keys. Eleven thousand five hundred eighty-nine awards is a thick instrument file compared with infrastructure or compact cells that put similar dollars on a handful of rows. Many smaller records pull the average down. That pattern fits a benefits-style catalog line better than a two-award highway grant, but the packet does not classify payment types beyond the CFDA title.
The Virginia hub totals every program. The national 57.001 hub totals every state. This tie is the overlap. A large award count does not prove Virginia has more railroad workers than Indiana or Kansas, which also appear as 57.001 joins in this harvest with their own row counts.
What the Railroad Retirement catalog number captures
Social insurance for railroad workers is a distinct CFDA, not Social Security Administration retirement, not unemployment insurance under the Department of Labor, and not Amtrak operating grants. Mixing those lines into $1,061,181,075.52 would misstate this cell. Packet facts are the obligation total, 11,589 awards, state VA, and CFDA 57.001. No beneficiary roster is included.
Place of performance tagged Virginia can reflect where the agency records the award, not where every retiree lives. The geography key is a USAspending field, not a home-address census of railroad families.
Virginia as the state filter
Virginia is USAspending state code VA. Awards coded to Maryland, the District of Columbia, or West Virginia stay on other ties even if rail corridors cross those borders. $1,061,181,075.52 is not Virginia’s Department of Rail and Public Transportation budget and is not every federal dollar tied to freight or passenger rail in the state.
Statewide Virginia federal spending is the parent. CFDA 57.001 is one line. Transit formula grants, public-health crisis awards, and mathematical-sciences research in Virginia are separate program joins.
Reading $91,568 as a mean, not a check
Average obligation is about $91,568 ($1,061,181,075.52 ÷ 11,589). That figure is far below the tens-of-millions means on compact or crisis-response cells with few awards. A lower mean flags more rows, not smaller need. It is not a typical monthly benefit and not a median.
Net obligations can include adjustments. This page reports $1,061,181,075.52 as given. Treat 11,589 as award records in the aggregate. Obligations are not outlays.
Limits of the Virginia–57.001 pair
The join does not mean Virginia selected these awards, and it does not mean railroad social-insurance outlays equal $1,061,181,075.52. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation.
Continue from Social Insurance For Railroad Workers in Virginia for the overlay, CFDA 57.001 for the national program, Virginia federal spending for the state total, Virginia programs for other CFDA lines, and All spending ties for other pairs.
A high-row overlay is still one catalog line
Social Insurance For Railroad Workers in Virginia is the overlay for CFDA 57.001 inside state VA. Eleven thousand five hundred eighty-nine awards summing to $1,061,181,075.52 will look like a benefits file next to Virginia’s 10-award crisis-response cell and 203-award NSF cell in this harvest. That contrast is the point of keeping catalog numbers separate. A high row count still does not publish beneficiary names, monthly check amounts, or home addresses. Place of performance tagged Virginia is a USAspending geography field, not a census of railroad families living in the Commonwealth.
Virginia programs is the index for every CFDA. Indiana and Kansas appear as sibling 57.001 joins in this harvest with 9,096 and 8,561 awards respectively. Those are separate state keys. This page does not rank rail employment from row counts. The national 57.001 hub drops the Virginia filter. Obligations of $1,061,181,075.52 are not outlays, and they are not Social Security Administration retirement under a different agency code.
Questions
- How much railroad worker social insurance is obligated in Virginia?
- USAspending records $1,061,181,075.52 in CFDA 57.001 obligations with Virginia place of performance, covering 11,589 awards. That is an obligation aggregate, not outlays.
- Why are there more than 11,000 awards?
- The aggregate contains 11,589 award records summing to $1,061,181,075.52. A high row count is consistent with many smaller instruments. The packet does not list beneficiaries.
- What is the average CFDA 57.001 award in Virginia?
- Dividing $1,061,181,075.52 by 11,589 awards produces about $91,568 per award. That mean is not a median and not a typical monthly benefit.
- Is this Social Security spending in Virginia?
- No. This cell is CFDA 57.001 only. Social Security Administration programs use other catalog or agency codes.
USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.