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Social Security Retirement Insurance federal funding in Washington

Social Security Retirement Insurance (CFDA 96.002) shows $72,734,504,294 in USAspending.gov obligations coded to Washington, across 2,451 awards. This page is the join of that catalog program and Washington place-of-performance. It is not a Trust Fund statement, not a count of Washington retirees, and not an outlay series. SpendingVault indexes the pair; USAspending.gov is the source.

Key figures

  • CFDA 96.002 × Washington records $72,734,504,294 in USAspending obligations.
  • 2,451 awards underlie that sum; the mean is about $29,675,440.35 per record, not a typical benefit.
  • Matching retirement insurance to Washington is not causation.
  • Cite obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.

The 96.002 and Washington filters together

The program key is CFDA 96.002. The geography key is Washington (WA). Their overlap is $72,734,504,294 and 2,451 records. A 96.002 award tagged to a neighboring state is out of this cell. A Washington 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 $72,734,504,294.

2,451 awards against $72,734,504,294 produces a mean of about $29,675,440.35 per record. That mean is a quotient of packet facts, not a typical monthly benefit and not a typical Washington 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. 2,451 awards is a thinner grain than several larger-state 96.002 cells; it remains a row count, not a retiree census.

Olympia did not cause the $72,734,504,294 by appearing as a state code, and SSA did not “award Washington” in a sense this extract can prove. Matching a CFDA to a state is not causation. The overlay Social Security Retirement Insurance in Washington 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 $72,734,504,294 carries the retirement-insurance catalog title. CFDA 96.002 is the national program hub with the Washington filter removed. This packet does not include a national total, so Washington 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 2,451 USAspending.gov rows.

Trust Fund ratios, average monthly benefits, and COLA announcements live in other SSA products. Placing any of those next to $72,734,504,294 would mix files. This page stays with the award aggregate.

The Washington book is wider than retirement insurance

Washington federal spending aggregates every CFDA coded to the state. Washington programs is the catalog directory. $72,734,504,294 is one cell inside those views. Quoting it as “federal spending in Washington” would drop every other program, including the Medicare and Medical Assistance cells that also appear as Washington joins.

Place-of-performance Washington 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 $72,734,504,294 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. $72,734,504,294 is the first. Using it as a proxy for deposits already in Washington bank accounts will misstate cash depending on timing, recoveries, and deobligations. SpendingVault does not convert the 2,451 awards into payments.

Olympia 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–Washington pair

Cite USAspending.gov: Social Security Retirement Insurance (CFDA 96.002) obligated $72,734,504,294 on 2,451 awards coded to Washington. 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 2,451-award count. Prefer the overlay Social Security Retirement Insurance in Washington 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 Washington’s age structure, poverty rate, or retiree density from $72,734,504,294. Those measures are absent from the packet. It will not rank Washington 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 × Washington. CFDA 96.002, Washington federal spending, Washington 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 Washington resident files for retirement. Treating 2,451 as a beneficiary census would collapse two different measurement systems. $72,734,504,294 stays an obligation sum on those rows.

A second trap is using the mean of about $29,675,440.35 per record as if it were a typical check. The mean is $72,734,504,294 divided by 2,451. 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 Washington as the live cell. Keep Washington federal spending, Washington 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 $72,734,504,294 as a permanent official total.

Questions

How much Social Security Retirement Insurance is obligated in Washington?
USAspending.gov records $72,734,504,294 in CFDA 96.002 obligations across 2,451 awards coded to Washington. That is a program × state join, not an outlay and not Washington’s full federal total.
Is 2,451 a count of Washington retirees?
No. It is an award-row count. $72,734,504,294 ÷ 2,451 is about $29,675,440.35 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 $72,734,504,294 does not swallow those programs.
Where is the live overlay?
Social Security Retirement Insurance in Washington is the overlay. See Washington federal spending, Washington 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.