Social Security Retirement Insurance federal funding in Arizona
Social Security Retirement Insurance (CFDA 96.002) shows $73,023,681,875 in USAspending.gov obligations coded to Arizona, across 1,259 awards. This page is the join of that catalog program and Arizona place-of-performance. It is not a Trust Fund statement, not a count of Arizona retirees, and not an outlay series. SpendingVault indexes the pair; USAspending.gov is the source.
Key figures
- CFDA 96.002 × Arizona records $73,023,681,875 in USAspending obligations.
- 1,259 awards underlie that sum; the mean is about $58,001,335.88 per record, not a typical benefit.
- Matching retirement insurance to Arizona is not causation.
- Cite obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.
Retirement insurance meeting Arizona in the award file
The program key is CFDA 96.002. The geography key is Arizona (AZ). Their overlap is $73,023,681,875 and 1,259 records. A 96.002 award tagged to a neighboring state is out of this cell. A Arizona award under disability insurance (96.001) or survivors insurance (96.004) is a different join, even though those catalog numbers also sit in the SSA family. This page does not add those siblings to the $73,023,681,875.
1,259 awards against $73,023,681,875 produces a mean of about $58,001,335.88 per record. That mean is a quotient of packet facts, not a typical monthly benefit and not a typical Arizona retiree’s annual check. Large assistance vehicles and modifications can dominate dollars while the row count stays in the thousands rather than in the millions of people. 1,259 awards is a thinner grain than several larger-state 96.002 cells; it remains a row count, not a retiree census.
Phoenix did not cause the $73,023,681,875 by appearing as a state code, and SSA did not “award Arizona” in a sense this extract can prove. Matching a CFDA to a state is not causation. The overlay Social Security Retirement Insurance in Arizona is the live table for the same pair.
What CFDA 96.002 is on this page—and what SSA publications are not
Every dollar in the $73,023,681,875 carries the retirement-insurance catalog title. CFDA 96.002 is the national program hub with the Arizona filter removed. This packet does not include a national total, so Arizona is not given a share of a U.S. figure. SSA statistical supplements that count beneficiaries by state are a different series; they are not the 1,259 USAspending.gov rows.
Trust Fund ratios, average monthly benefits, and COLA announcements live in other SSA products. Placing any of those next to $73,023,681,875 would mix files. This page stays with the award aggregate.
The Arizona book is wider than retirement insurance
Arizona federal spending aggregates every CFDA coded to the state. Arizona programs is the catalog directory. $73,023,681,875 is one cell inside those views. Quoting it as “federal spending in Arizona” would drop every other program, including the Medicare and Medical Assistance cells that also appear as Arizona joins.
Place-of-performance Arizona can be a payment center, a contractor, or another tagged address. It is not automatically the ZIP where a retiree lives. This packet has no county split of the $73,023,681,875 and no congressional-district cut.
Obligations versus checks already mailed
An obligation is a legal commitment on a USAspending.gov award. An outlay is cash leaving the Treasury. $73,023,681,875 is the first. Using it as a proxy for deposits already in Arizona bank accounts will misstate cash depending on timing, recoveries, and deobligations. SpendingVault does not convert the 1,259 awards into payments.
Phoenix budget documents and the state’s CAFRs answer other questions. They are not the source of this cell. If a chart mixes General Fund activity with CFDA 96.002, the chart has left the federal award series.
How to cite the 96.002–Arizona pair
Cite USAspending.gov: Social Security Retirement Insurance (CFDA 96.002) obligated $73,023,681,875 on 1,259 awards coded to Arizona. Keep both sides of the join. Keep the obligation label. Do not invent a fiscal year. All spending ties files this pair with other program-by-state pages.
Later ingests can move dollars and the 1,259-award count. Prefer the overlay Social Security Retirement Insurance in Arizona when the live table and this snapshot disagree. The JSON is a packet, not a second official ledger.
What this join will not be stretched into
This page will not infer Arizona’s age structure, poverty rate, or retiree density from $73,023,681,875. Those measures are absent from the packet. It will not rank Arizona against other states on retirement insurance. Peer-state lists are not in the facts.
Disability and survivors catalog numbers remain outside this cell. Adding them would manufacture an “all Social Security” total. Stay with 96.002 × Arizona. CFDA 96.002, Arizona federal spending, Arizona programs, and All spending ties are the related hubs, not competing sums.
USAspending.gov award counts are file rows. They increment when a new award is recorded and when a modification is stored as its own line, depending on how the bulk file is rolled up. They do not increment when a new Arizona resident files for retirement. Treating 1,259 as a beneficiary census would collapse two different measurement systems. $73,023,681,875 stays an obligation sum on those rows.
A second trap is using the mean of about $58,001,335.88 per record as if it were a typical check. The mean is $73,023,681,875 divided by 1,259. A few large vehicles can pull that average far from any household’s monthly benefit. This packet does not publish a median, a mode, or a distribution, so none of those are described.
Keep the overlay Social Security Retirement Insurance in Arizona as the live cell. Keep Arizona federal spending, Arizona programs, CFDA 96.002, and All spending ties as the parent map. If those pages and this snapshot disagree after a later ingest, the overlay wins. Do not freeze $73,023,681,875 as a permanent official total.
Questions
- How much Social Security Retirement Insurance is obligated in Arizona?
- USAspending.gov records $73,023,681,875 in CFDA 96.002 obligations across 1,259 awards coded to Arizona. That is a program × state join, not an outlay and not Arizona’s full federal total.
- Is 1,259 a count of Arizona retirees?
- No. It is an award-row count. $73,023,681,875 ÷ 1,259 is about $58,001,335.88 per record as a mean, not a typical monthly benefit. Beneficiary statistics live in other SSA publications.
- Does this include disability or survivors insurance?
- No. The cell is CFDA 96.002 only. Other SSA catalog numbers are separate joins. The $73,023,681,875 does not swallow those programs.
- Where is the live overlay?
- Social Security Retirement Insurance in Arizona is the overlay. See Arizona federal spending, Arizona programs, CFDA 96.002, and All spending ties. Later bulk files override this snapshot.
USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.