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Social Security Retirement Insurance federal funding in Minnesota

Social Security Retirement Insurance (CFDA 96.002) shows $56,333,911,248 in USAspending.gov obligations coded to Minnesota, across 5,543 awards. This page is the join of that catalog program and Minnesota place-of-performance. It is not a Trust Fund statement, not a count of Minnesota retirees, and not an outlay series. SpendingVault indexes the pair; USAspending.gov is the source.

Key figures

  • CFDA 96.002 × Minnesota records $56,333,911,248 in USAspending obligations.
  • 5,543 awards underlie that sum; the mean is about $10.16 million per record, not a typical benefit.
  • Matching retirement insurance to Minnesota is not causation.
  • Cite obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.

Retirement insurance meeting Minnesota in the award file

The program key is CFDA 96.002. The geography key is Minnesota (MN). Their overlap is $56,333,911,248 and 5,543 records. A 96.002 award tagged to Wisconsin or Iowa is out of this cell. A Minnesota 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 $56,333,911,248.

Five thousand five hundred forty-three awards against $56,333,911,248 produces a mean of about $10,162,171 per record. That mean is a quotient of packet facts, not a typical monthly benefit and not a typical Minnesota 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.

Minnesota did not cause the $56,333,911,248 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 Minnesota 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 $56,333,911,248 carries the retirement-insurance catalog title. CFDA 96.002 is the national program hub with the Minnesota filter removed. This packet does not include a national total, so Minnesota 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 5,543 USAspending.gov rows.

Trust Fund ratios, average monthly benefits, and COLA announcements live in other SSA products. Placing any of those next to $56,333,911,248 would mix files. This page stays with the award aggregate.

The Minnesota book is wider than retirement insurance

Minnesota federal spending aggregates every CFDA coded to the state. Minnesota programs is the catalog directory. $56,333,911,248 is one cell inside those views. Quoting it as “federal spending in Minnesota” would drop every other program, including Medicare and Medical Assistance cells that also appear as Minnesota joins.

Place-of-performance Minnesota 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 $56,333,911,248 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. $56,333,911,248 is the first. Using it as a proxy for deposits already in Minnesota bank accounts will misstate cash depending on timing, recoveries, and deobligations. SpendingVault does not convert the 5,543 awards into payments.

St. Paul 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–Minnesota pair

Cite USAspending.gov: Social Security Retirement Insurance (CFDA 96.002) obligated $56,333,911,248 on 5,543 awards coded to Minnesota. 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 5,543-award count. Prefer the overlay Social Security Retirement Insurance in Minnesota 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 Minnesota’s age structure, poverty rate, or retiree density from $56,333,911,248. Those measures are absent from the packet. It will not rank the state against Wisconsin or Colorado 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 × Minnesota. CFDA 96.002, Minnesota federal spending, Minnesota 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 Minnesota resident files for retirement. Treating 5,543 as a beneficiary census would collapse two different measurement systems. $56,333,911,248 stays an obligation sum on those rows.

A second trap is using the mean of about $10.16 million per record as if it were a typical check. The mean is $56,333,911,248 divided by 5,543. 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 Minnesota as the live cell. Keep Minnesota federal spending, Minnesota 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 $56,333,911,248 as a permanent official total.

Questions

How much Social Security Retirement Insurance is obligated in Minnesota?
USAspending.gov records $56,333,911,248 in CFDA 96.002 obligations across 5,543 awards coded to Minnesota. That is a program × state join, not an outlay and not the state’s full federal total.
Is 5,543 a count of Minnesota retirees?
No. It is an award-row count. $56,333,911,248 ÷ 5,543 is about $10.16 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 $56,333,911,248 does not swallow those programs.
Where is the live overlay?
Social Security Retirement Insurance in Minnesota is the overlay. See Minnesota federal spending, Minnesota 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.