Social Security Retirement Insurance federal funding in Massachusetts

The 96.002 and Massachusetts filters together

The program key is CFDA 96.002. The geography key is Massachusetts (MA). Their overlap is $63,763,194,965 and 1,465 records. A 96.002 award tagged to a neighboring state is out of this cell. A Massachusetts 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 $63,763,194,965.

1,465 awards against $63,763,194,965 produces a mean of about $43,524,365.16 per record. That mean is a quotient of packet facts, not a typical monthly benefit and not a typical Massachusetts 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. 1,465 awards is a thinner grain than several larger-state 96.002 cells; it remains a row count, not a retiree census.

Boston did not cause the $63,763,194,965 by appearing as a state code, and SSA did not “award Massachusetts” in a sense this extract can prove. Matching a CFDA to a state is not causation. The overlay Social Security Retirement Insurance in Massachusetts 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 $63,763,194,965 carries the retirement-insurance catalog title. CFDA 96.002 is the national program hub with the Massachusetts filter removed. This packet does not include a national total, so Massachusetts 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 1,465 USAspending.gov rows.

Trust Fund ratios, average monthly benefits, and COLA announcements live in other SSA products. Placing any of those next to $63,763,194,965 would mix files. This page stays with the award aggregate.

The Massachusetts book is wider than retirement insurance

Massachusetts federal spending aggregates every CFDA coded to the state. Massachusetts programs is the catalog directory. $63,763,194,965 is one cell inside those views. Quoting it as “federal spending in Massachusetts” would drop every other program, including the Medicare and Medical Assistance cells that also appear as Massachusetts joins.

Place-of-performance Massachusetts 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 $63,763,194,965 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. $63,763,194,965 is the first. Using it as a proxy for deposits already in Massachusetts bank accounts will misstate cash depending on timing, recoveries, and deobligations. SpendingVault does not convert the 1,465 awards into payments.

Boston 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–Massachusetts pair

Cite USAspending.gov: Social Security Retirement Insurance (CFDA 96.002) obligated $63,763,194,965 on 1,465 awards coded to Massachusetts. 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 1,465-award count. Prefer the overlay Social Security Retirement Insurance in Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts’s age structure, poverty rate, or retiree density from $63,763,194,965. Those measures are absent from the packet. It will not rank Massachusetts 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 × Massachusetts. CFDA 96.002, Massachusetts federal spending, Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts resident files for retirement. Treating 1,465 as a beneficiary census would collapse two different measurement systems. $63,763,194,965 stays an obligation sum on those rows.

A second trap is using the mean of about $43,524,365.16 per record as if it were a typical check. The mean is $63,763,194,965 divided by 1,465. 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 Massachusetts as the live cell. Keep Massachusetts federal spending, Massachusetts 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 $63,763,194,965 as a permanent official total.

Questions

How much Social Security Retirement Insurance is obligated in Massachusetts?

USAspending.gov records $63,763,194,965 in CFDA 96.002 obligations across 1,465 awards coded to Massachusetts. That is a program × state join, not an outlay and not Massachusetts’s full federal total.

Is 1,465 a count of Massachusetts retirees?

No. It is an award-row count. $63,763,194,965 ÷ 1,465 is about $43,524,365.16 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 $63,763,194,965 does not swallow those programs.

Where is the live overlay?

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