Social Security Retirement Insurance federal funding in Colorado

Retirement insurance meeting Colorado in the award file

The program key is CFDA 96.002. The geography key is Colorado (CO). Their overlap is $48,222,246,963 and 3,685 records. A 96.002 award tagged to Utah or Wyoming is out of this cell. A Colorado 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 $48,222,246,963.

Three thousand six hundred eighty-five awards against $48,222,246,963 produces a mean of about $13,086,091 per record. That mean is a quotient of packet facts, not a typical monthly benefit and not a typical Colorado 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.

Colorado did not cause the $48,222,246,963 by appearing as a state code, and SSA did not “award the state” in a sense this extract can prove. Matching a CFDA to a state is not causation. The overlay Social Security Retirement Insurance in Colorado 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 $48,222,246,963 carries the retirement-insurance catalog title. CFDA 96.002 is the national program hub with the Colorado filter removed. This packet does not include a national total, so Colorado 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 3,685 USAspending.gov rows.

Trust Fund ratios, average monthly benefits, and COLA announcements live in other SSA products. Placing any of those next to $48,222,246,963 would mix files. This page stays with the award aggregate.

The Colorado book is wider than retirement insurance

Colorado federal spending aggregates every CFDA coded to the state. Colorado programs is the catalog directory. $48,222,246,963 is one cell inside those views. Quoting it as “federal spending in Colorado” would drop every other program, including Medicare and Medical Assistance cells that also appear as Colorado joins.

Place-of-performance Colorado 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 $48,222,246,963 and no congressional-district cut. A Denver payment address is not a Front Range beneficiary map.

Obligations versus checks already mailed

An obligation is a legal commitment on a USAspending.gov award. An outlay is cash leaving the Treasury. $48,222,246,963 is the first. Using it as a proxy for deposits already in Colorado bank accounts will misstate cash depending on timing, recoveries, and deobligations. SpendingVault does not convert the 3,685 awards into payments.

Denver 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–Colorado pair

Cite USAspending.gov: Social Security Retirement Insurance (CFDA 96.002) obligated $48,222,246,963 on 3,685 awards coded to Colorado. 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 3,685-award count. Prefer the overlay Social Security Retirement Insurance in Colorado 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 Colorado’s age structure, poverty rate, or retiree density from $48,222,246,963. Those measures are absent from the packet. It will not rank the state against Utah or Minnesota 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 × Colorado. CFDA 96.002, Colorado federal spending, Colorado 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 Colorado resident files for retirement. Treating 3,685 as a beneficiary census would collapse two different measurement systems. $48,222,246,963 stays an obligation sum on those rows.

A second trap is using the mean of about $13.09 million per record as if it were a typical check. The mean is $48,222,246,963 divided by 3,685. 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 Colorado as the live cell. Keep Colorado federal spending, Colorado 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 $48,222,246,963 as a permanent official total.

Questions

How much Social Security Retirement Insurance is obligated in Colorado?

USAspending.gov records $48,222,246,963 in CFDA 96.002 obligations across 3,685 awards coded to Colorado. That is a program × state join, not an outlay and not the state’s full federal total.

Is 3,685 a count of Colorado retirees?

No. It is an award-row count. $48,222,246,963 ÷ 3,685 is about $13.09 million 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 $48,222,246,963 does not swallow those programs.

Where is the live overlay?

Social Security Retirement Insurance in Colorado is the overlay. See Colorado federal spending, Colorado programs, CFDA 96.002, and All spending ties. Later bulk files override this snapshot.