Social Security Retirement Insurance federal funding in New York

A catalog number meeting a New York geography tag

CFDA 96.002 is Social Security Retirement Insurance. New York (NY) is the place-of-performance state on the awards in this extract. Together they produce $172,540,405,963 and 5,780 records. Drop either filter and the cell disappears. The join does not include other Social Security catalog numbers coded to New York, and it does not include 96.002 awards tagged to New Jersey, Connecticut, or any other state. Those rows belong to other program-by-state pairs.

Five thousand seven hundred eighty awards is a thinner record set than some other 96.002 state cells, yet the obligation sum is still $172,540,405,963. That contrast is a feature of how awards are booked, not proof that New York’s retirement program is concentrated, efficient, or unusual. Mean obligation per record is about $29,851,281 ($172,540,405,963 ÷ 5,780). The mean is a quotient of packet facts, not a typical monthly check and not a typical award “size” in the everyday sense.

Correlation of catalog number and state is not causation. New York’s appearance beside $172,540,405,963 does not mean the state appropriated the money, that Albany designed the program, or that SSA selected New York as a policy target. The overlay Social Security Retirement Insurance in New York holds the same pair in the live index.

Readers sometimes treat a large obligation cell as evidence that New York’s retiree population “explains” the dollars. This extract cannot support that claim. It has no population figure, no beneficiary count, and no age structure. The only facts on the table are $172,540,405,963, 5,780 awards, CFDA 96.002, and New York place-of-performance. Anything else is a different dataset.

What CFDA 96.002 contributes—and what it does not

Every dollar in $172,540,405,963 carries the retirement-insurance catalog title. The national program page at CFDA 96.002 removes the New York filter so readers can see the program without this state’s geography tag. This packet does not supply a national total, a multi-year trend, or a comparison to disability or survivors insurance, so none of those are quoted.

SSA statistical supplements that count beneficiaries by state are a separate publication series. They are not the 5,780 USAspending.gov award rows. Mixing those series with this join will double-count people or mislabel the $172,540,405,963 as a beneficiary ledger. Keep the two files apart.

New York’s statewide book is larger than this program

New York federal spending aggregates every CFDA and every awarding agency coded to the state. CFDA 96.002 is one line inside that book. New York programs is the directory of other catalog cells. Using $172,540,405,963 as a stand-in for all federal activity in New York would overstate this program’s share. This packet does not publish that share, so it is not estimated here as a percentage of the state total.

Place-of-performance New York can be a processing address, a recipient headquarters, or another geography tag. It is not automatically the ZIP where a retiree lives. A payment operations site in one borough can carry a large slice of the $172,540,405,963. County maps need a different extract, which this packet does not contain.

Obligation versus outlay on the retirement-insurance series

USAspending.gov reports obligations: legal commitments recorded on awards. Cash out the door is an outlay. $172,540,405,963 is labeled as the former. Timing differences between obligation and payment are normal in assistance programs and are not resolved on this page. Recoveries and deobligations may already be netted in the source aggregate; this packet does not itemize them.

Albany’s enacted budget, the state’s financial plan, and SSA’s Treasury warrant files answer other questions. They are not the source of the 5,780 awards. Keep the citation on USAspending.gov CFDA aggregates by place of performance state.

Citing the 96.002–New York snapshot

Write: Social Security Retirement Insurance (CFDA 96.002) shows $172,540,405,963 in USAspending.gov obligations on 5,780 awards coded to New York. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not attach a fiscal year that is absent from the packet. All spending ties files this pair with other program-by-state joins built on the same two keys.

If a later bulk load changes the dollars or the 5,780 count, the overlay Social Security Retirement Insurance in New York is authoritative over this prose. Treat the JSON as a snapshot of one ingest, not as a frozen official total.

Questions

How much is CFDA 96.002 in New York?

USAspending.gov shows $172,540,405,963 in Social Security Retirement Insurance obligations across 5,780 awards with New York place-of-performance. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not New York’s full federal total.

Why are there only 5,780 awards for such a large dollar figure?

Award count is a row count, not a person count. $172,540,405,963 ÷ 5,780 is about $29.85 million per record as a mean. Large assistance vehicles and modifications can dominate dollars while keeping the row count modest. This packet does not list vehicle types.

Is this New York’s Social Security Trust Fund share?

No. The $172,540,405,963 is a USAspending.gov CFDA × state obligation cell. Trust Fund accounting and beneficiary counts live in other SSA series. This page does not convert the join into those series.

Which page has the live numbers?

Social Security Retirement Insurance in New York is the overlay. Use New York federal spending, New York programs, CFDA 96.002, and All spending ties for the parent views. Later ingests override this snapshot.