Social Security Retirement Insurance federal funding in Virginia

The 96.002 and Virginia filters together

The program key is CFDA 96.002. The geography key is Virginia (VA). Their overlap is $78,317,747,193 and 7,177 records. A 96.002 award tagged to a neighboring state is out of this cell. A Virginia 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 $78,317,747,193.

7,177 awards against $78,317,747,193 produces a mean of about $10,912,323.70 per record. That mean is a quotient of packet facts, not a typical monthly benefit and not a typical Virginia 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. 7,177 awards is a denser grain than many Medicare cells, still far below a beneficiary census.

Richmond did not cause the $78,317,747,193 by appearing as a state code, and SSA did not “award Virginia” in a sense this extract can prove. Matching a CFDA to a state is not causation. The overlay Social Security Retirement Insurance in Virginia 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 $78,317,747,193 carries the retirement-insurance catalog title. CFDA 96.002 is the national program hub with the Virginia filter removed. This packet does not include a national total, so Virginia 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 7,177 USAspending.gov rows.

Trust Fund ratios, average monthly benefits, and COLA announcements live in other SSA products. Placing any of those next to $78,317,747,193 would mix files. This page stays with the award aggregate.

The Virginia book is wider than retirement insurance

Virginia federal spending aggregates every CFDA coded to the state. Virginia programs is the catalog directory. $78,317,747,193 is one cell inside those views. Quoting it as “federal spending in Virginia” would drop every other program, including the Medicare and Medical Assistance cells that also appear as Virginia joins.

Place-of-performance Virginia 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 $78,317,747,193 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. $78,317,747,193 is the first. Using it as a proxy for deposits already in Virginia bank accounts will misstate cash depending on timing, recoveries, and deobligations. SpendingVault does not convert the 7,177 awards into payments.

Richmond 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–Virginia pair

Cite USAspending.gov: Social Security Retirement Insurance (CFDA 96.002) obligated $78,317,747,193 on 7,177 awards coded to Virginia. 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 7,177-award count. Prefer the overlay Social Security Retirement Insurance in Virginia 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 Virginia’s age structure, poverty rate, or retiree density from $78,317,747,193. Those measures are absent from the packet. It will not rank Virginia 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 × Virginia. CFDA 96.002, Virginia federal spending, Virginia 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 Virginia resident files for retirement. Treating 7,177 as a beneficiary census would collapse two different measurement systems. $78,317,747,193 stays an obligation sum on those rows.

A second trap is using the mean of about $10,912,323.70 per record as if it were a typical check. The mean is $78,317,747,193 divided by 7,177. 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 Virginia as the live cell. Keep Virginia federal spending, Virginia 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 $78,317,747,193 as a permanent official total.

Questions

How much Social Security Retirement Insurance is obligated in Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $78,317,747,193 in CFDA 96.002 obligations across 7,177 awards coded to Virginia. That is a program × state join, not an outlay and not Virginia’s full federal total.

Is 7,177 a count of Virginia retirees?

No. It is an award-row count. $78,317,747,193 ÷ 7,177 is about $10,912,323.70 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 $78,317,747,193 does not swallow those programs.

Where is the live overlay?

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