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Social Security Retirement Insurance federal funding in Wisconsin

Social Security Retirement Insurance (CFDA 96.002) shows $63,814,980,897 in USAspending.gov obligations coded to Wisconsin, across 4,912 awards. This page is the join of that catalog program and Wisconsin place-of-performance. It is not a Trust Fund statement, not a count of Wisconsin retirees, and not an outlay series. SpendingVault indexes the pair; USAspending.gov is the source.

Key figures

  • CFDA 96.002 × Wisconsin records $63,814,980,897 in USAspending obligations.
  • 4,912 awards underlie that sum; the mean is about $12,991,649.21 per record, not a typical benefit.
  • Matching retirement insurance to Wisconsin is not causation.
  • Cite obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.

Retirement insurance meeting Wisconsin in the award file

The program key is CFDA 96.002. The geography key is Wisconsin (WI). Their overlap is $63,814,980,897 and 4,912 records. A 96.002 award tagged to a neighboring state is out of this cell. A Wisconsin 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 $63,814,980,897.

4,912 awards against $63,814,980,897 produces a mean of about $12,991,649.21 per record. That mean is a quotient of packet facts, not a typical monthly benefit and not a typical Wisconsin 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. 4,912 awards sits in the middle of the 96.002 row-count range in this slice; it remains a row count, not a retiree census.

Madison did not cause the $63,814,980,897 by appearing as a state code, and SSA did not “award Wisconsin” in a sense this extract can prove. Matching a CFDA to a state is not causation. The overlay Social Security Retirement Insurance in Wisconsin 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 $63,814,980,897 carries the retirement-insurance catalog title. CFDA 96.002 is the national program hub with the Wisconsin filter removed. This packet does not include a national total, so Wisconsin 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 4,912 USAspending.gov rows.

Trust Fund ratios, average monthly benefits, and COLA announcements live in other SSA products. Placing any of those next to $63,814,980,897 would mix files. This page stays with the award aggregate.

The Wisconsin book is wider than retirement insurance

Wisconsin federal spending aggregates every CFDA coded to the state. Wisconsin programs is the catalog directory. $63,814,980,897 is one cell inside those views. Quoting it as “federal spending in Wisconsin” would drop every other program, including the Medicare and Medical Assistance cells that also appear as Wisconsin joins.

Place-of-performance Wisconsin 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 $63,814,980,897 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. $63,814,980,897 is the first. Using it as a proxy for deposits already in Wisconsin bank accounts will misstate cash depending on timing, recoveries, and deobligations. SpendingVault does not convert the 4,912 awards into payments.

Madison 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–Wisconsin pair

Cite USAspending.gov: Social Security Retirement Insurance (CFDA 96.002) obligated $63,814,980,897 on 4,912 awards coded to Wisconsin. 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 4,912-award count. Prefer the overlay Social Security Retirement Insurance in Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin’s age structure, poverty rate, or retiree density from $63,814,980,897. Those measures are absent from the packet. It will not rank Wisconsin 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 × Wisconsin. CFDA 96.002, Wisconsin federal spending, Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin resident files for retirement. Treating 4,912 as a beneficiary census would collapse two different measurement systems. $63,814,980,897 stays an obligation sum on those rows.

A second trap is using the mean of about $12,991,649.21 per record as if it were a typical check. The mean is $63,814,980,897 divided by 4,912. 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 Wisconsin as the live cell. Keep Wisconsin federal spending, Wisconsin 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 $63,814,980,897 as a permanent official total.

Questions

How much Social Security Retirement Insurance is obligated in Wisconsin?
USAspending.gov records $63,814,980,897 in CFDA 96.002 obligations across 4,912 awards coded to Wisconsin. That is a program × state join, not an outlay and not Wisconsin’s full federal total.
Is 4,912 a count of Wisconsin retirees?
No. It is an award-row count. $63,814,980,897 ÷ 4,912 is about $12,991,649.21 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 $63,814,980,897 does not swallow those programs.
Where is the live overlay?
Social Security Retirement Insurance in Wisconsin is the overlay. See Wisconsin federal spending, Wisconsin 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.