Social Security Survivors Insurance obligations in Tennessee

What the 96.004–Tennessee join is

CFDA 96.004 is titled SOCIAL SECURITY SURVIVORS INSURANCE. Crossed with Tennessee place of performance, obligations sum to $6,543,423,798 on 5,854 awards. The national 96.004 hub includes other states. Tennessee’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $6,543,423,798 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of surviving spouses or children in Nashville, Memphis, or Knoxville.

5,854 awards is a mid-thickness SSA book: denser than New Jersey’s 96.004 cell, thinner than Georgia’s. That comparison is a reporting pattern, not a ranking of states. The join does not name SSA field offices, list beneficiaries, or count eligible survivors. Packet facts stop at $6,543,423,798, 5,854 awards, TN, and 96.004.

96.004 is not retirement or SSI

Social Security retirement insurance and Supplemental Security Income (CFDA 96.006) are different SSA catalogs. Mixing those dollars into $6,543,423,798 would invent a broader income-security total than this cell contains. Disability insurance uses other numbers still. Facts available: Tennessee, CFDA 96.004, $6,543,423,798, 5,854 awards. Benefit formulas and caseload counts are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Social Security Survivors Insurance, not a ranking of county need. Dividing $6,543,423,798 by 5,854 yields about $1,117,770 per award—a record-level ratio, not a typical monthly survivor check. Unique recipients are unpublished. 5,854 is not a count of households.

Tennessee geography on the survivors tag

TN is the place-of-performance code. A survivors-insurance award can still appear as records tagged to Nashville, Memphis, or another in-state address. Awards coded to Kentucky, Alabama, or Mississippi stay outside $6,543,423,798 even when a beneficiary lives in a cross-border metro. The code does not convert $6.54 billion into a county map.

Tennessee federal spending is the all-program parent. 96.004 is one row on Tennessee programs. $6.54 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Social Security Survivors Insurance in Tennessee for the filtered table, CFDA 96.004 for 96.004 without a Tennessee filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $6,543,423,798.

Reading 5,854 awards under $6.54 billion

$6,543,423,798 ÷ 5,854 is about $1,117,770 per award. That average is a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical monthly benefit and not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 5,854 as a record count, not as 5,854 finished cases.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $6,543,423,798 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 5,854 rows are continuations, corrections, or payment batches. Later ingests can restate $6,543,423,798 without changing the join key of 96.004 and TN.

What the survivors–Tennessee pair does not prove

A large 96.004 total tagged to Tennessee does not measure whether survivor benefits were adequate, and it does not equal services delivered. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $6,543,423,798 on 5,854 awards for Social Security Survivors Insurance in Tennessee.

Keep both sides of the join: Social Security Survivors Insurance and Tennessee, obligations only. Do not annualize $6,543,423,798 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 5,854 as a beneficiary census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a hardship story.

Using the 96.004–Tennessee overlay

The overlay target is the Tennessee × CFDA 96.004 table. Open Social Security Survivors Insurance in Tennessee when you want the same $6,543,423,798 / 5,854-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 96.004 drops the Tennessee filter. Tennessee federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Tennessee programs lists other catalogs beside 96.004. All spending ties indexes other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to argue that Tennessee won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 96.004 plus TN. Obligations of $6,543,423,798 are not outlays.

Questions

How much Social Security Survivors Insurance is obligated in Tennessee?

USAspending records $6,543,423,798 in CFDA 96.004 obligations with Tennessee place of performance on 5,854 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not SSI. Keep Social Security Survivors Insurance and Tennessee together when citing $6,543,423,798.

Are 5,854 awards 5,854 surviving families?

5,854 is an award-record count, not a household census. SSA programs can post many payment instruments. The mean is about $1,117,770 per award, a ratio, not a typical monthly check. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Is this Tennessee’s total Social Security spending?

No. This join is CFDA 96.004 only. Retirement, disability, and SSI catalogs appear on separate Tennessee program pages. Nationwide 96.004 is not limited to Tennessee. Obligations of $6,543,423,798 are not outlays.

Where is the live 96.004–Tennessee table?

The overlay is Social Security Survivors Insurance in Tennessee. CFDA 96.004 drops the state filter. Tennessee federal spending and Tennessee programs are the state parents. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.