SNAP obligations in Tennessee (CFDA 10.551)

What the 10.551–Tennessee join reports

CFDA 10.551 is titled SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. Crossed with Tennessee place of performance, obligations sum to $3,898,504,202.91 on 3 awards. The national SNAP hub includes other states. Tennessee’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $3,898,504,202.91 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of EBT issuances in any county.

Three awards is a concentrated assistance pattern: SNAP benefit funding typically posts as a handful of large instruments to a state rather than thousands of household-level rows. The join does not name a state agency, list retailers, or count participants. Packet facts stop at $3,898,504,202.91, 3 awards, TN, and 10.551. Correlation is not causation. Three SNAP instruments carrying $3,898,504,202.91 is a benefit-side posting pattern, not three households and not three retailers named in the facts.

SNAP benefits are not administrative matching

The catalog title names Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which is the benefit-side SNAP line in this USAspending cell. Administrative matching for SNAP is a different catalog and is not mixed into $3,898,504,202.91. Facts available: Tennessee, CFDA 10.551, $3,898,504,202.91, 3 awards. Benefit formulas, retailer counts, and error rates are not in the facts.

Dividing $3,898,504,202.91 by 3 yields about $1.30 billion per award—a state-scale instrument, not a typical monthly allotment. Unique recipients are unpublished. 3 is not a count of families or stores.

Tennessee as a place-of-performance tag

TN is the place-of-performance code. A statewide SNAP award can still appear as records tagged to a Nashville, Memphis, or other in-state address. Awards coded to Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, or another state stay outside $3,898,504,202.91 even when a household later moves. The code does not convert $3.90 billion into a county caseload map.

Tennessee federal spending is the all-program parent. 10.551 is one row on Tennessee programs. $3.90 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Tennessee for the filtered table, CFDA 10.551 for 10.551 without a Tennessee filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $3,898,504,202.91.

Reading 3 awards under $3.90 billion

$3,898,504,202.91 ÷ 3 is about $1.30 billion per award. That average is a state-agency scale, not a typical SNAP monthly benefit. It is not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 3 as a record count, not as 3 households. A Nashville or Memphis address on a SNAP instrument is still a Tennessee place-of-performance tag, not a county caseload map, and not proof that every obligated dollar was issued on EBT.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $3,898,504,202.91 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 3 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $3,898,504,202.91 without changing the join key of 10.551 and TN.

What the SNAP–Tennessee pair does not prove

A large 10.551 total tagged to Tennessee does not measure food insecurity, and it does not equal benefits already issued on EBT cards. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $3,898,504,202.91 on 3 awards for SNAP in Tennessee.

Keep both sides of the join: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Tennessee, obligations only. Do not annualize $3,898,504,202.91 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 3 as a household census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a nutrition-policy story.

Using the SNAP–Tennessee overlay

The overlay target is the Tennessee × CFDA 10.551 table. Open Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Tennessee when you want the same $3,898,504,202.91 / 3-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 10.551 drops the Tennessee filter. Tennessee federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Tennessee programs lists other catalogs beside 10.551. 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 10.551 plus TN. Obligations of $3,898,504,202.91 are not outlays.

Questions

How much SNAP funding is obligated in Tennessee?

USAspending records $3,898,504,202.91 in CFDA 10.551 obligations with Tennessee place of performance on 3 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not an administrative-matching catalog. Keep SNAP and Tennessee together when citing $3,898,504,202.91. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 3 awards mean 3 households received SNAP?

No. 3 is a USAspending award-record count, not a household or retailer census. The implied mean is about $1.30 billion per award. Unique recipients and caseload counts are unpublished. Obligations of $3,898,504,202.91 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Is $3.90 billion Tennessee’s full federal nutrition spend?

No. $3,898,504,202.91 is only the 10.551 × Tennessee cell. Other nutrition catalogs appear on separate Tennessee program pages. Nationwide 10.551 is not limited to Tennessee. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 10.551 × TN pair. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Are these SNAP dollars already paid out?

The figure is an obligation aggregate, not an outlay. USAspending.gov is the source. FEC donations do not fund this cell. The overlay is the live SNAP–Tennessee table at the 10.551 × TN intersection. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.