Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program obligations in Washington

What the 10.551–Washington join is

CFDA 10.551 is titled SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. Crossed with Washington place of performance, obligations sum to $4,554,075,010.08 on 3 awards. The national SNAP hub includes other states. Washington’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $4,554,075,010.08 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of SNAP households in Seattle, Spokane, or Yakima.

Three awards is a concentrated formula-assistance pattern: SNAP often posts as a small number of large instruments to a state agency that then issues benefits. The join does not name DSHS, list retailers, or count eligible people. Packet facts stop at $4,554,075,010.08, 3 awards, WA, and 10.551. Massachusetts and North Carolina 10.551 cells are different state joins, not addends.

10.551 is not school lunch or WIC

National School Lunch Program (CFDA 10.555) and WIC are different USDA catalogs. Mixing those dollars into $4,554,075,010.08 would invent a broader nutrition total than this cell contains. SNAP employment and training and other 10.xxx lines use other numbers still. Facts available: Washington, CFDA 10.551, $4,554,075,010.08, 3 awards. Caseload and benefit-issuance counts are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, not a ranking of county food insecurity. Dividing $4,554,075,010.08 by 3 yields about $1.52 billion per award—a statewide pass-through scale, not a typical monthly SNAP allotment. Unique recipients are unpublished. 3 is not a count of grocery stores.

Washington geography on the SNAP tag

WA is the place-of-performance code. A SNAP award can still appear as records tagged to Olympia, Seattle, or another in-state address. Awards coded to Oregon, Idaho, or the District of Columbia stay outside $4,554,075,010.08 even when a household lives in a cross-border metro. The code does not convert $4.55 billion into a county map.

Washington federal spending is the all-program parent. 10.551 is one row on Washington programs. $4.55 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Washington for the filtered table, CFDA 10.551 for 10.551 without a Washington filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $4,554,075,010.08.

Reading 3 awards under $4.55 billion

$4,554,075,010.08 ÷ 3 is about $1.52 billion per award. That average is a state-pass-through scale, not a typical household benefit and 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 finished nutrition programs.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $4,554,075,010.08 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 3 rows are continuations, corrections, or annual issuances. Later ingests can restate $4,554,075,010.08 without changing the join key of 10.551 and WA.

What the SNAP–Washington pair does not prove

A large 10.551 total tagged to Washington does not measure whether households were food-secure, and it does not equal benefits redeemed. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $4,554,075,010.08 on 3 awards for SNAP in Washington.

Keep both sides of the join: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Washington, obligations only. Do not annualize $4,554,075,010.08 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 hunger story.

Using the 10.551–Washington overlay

The overlay target is the Washington × CFDA 10.551 table. Open Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Washington when you want the same $4,554,075,010.08 / 3-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 10.551 drops the Washington filter. Washington federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Washington programs lists other catalogs beside SNAP. 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 Washington won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 10.551 plus WA. Obligations of $4,554,075,010.08 are not outlays.

Questions

How much SNAP funding is obligated in Washington?

USAspending records $4,554,075,010.08 in CFDA 10.551 obligations with Washington place of performance on 3 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not school lunch. Keep Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Washington together when citing $4,554,075,010.08.

Why are there only 3 SNAP awards?

SNAP often posts as a small number of large assistance instruments to a state agency. The facts show 3 awards totaling $4,554,075,010.08. The mean is about $1.52 billion. Household names are unpublished.

Is this Washington’s total USDA nutrition spending?

No. This join is CFDA 10.551 only. School lunch and other nutrition catalogs appear on separate Washington program pages. Nationwide 10.551 is not limited to Washington. Obligations of $4,554,075,010.08 are not outlays.

Does three awards mean three counties?

3 is an award-record count, not a county census. A state agency can be the awardee even when many households receive benefits. Unique recipients are unpublished. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 10.551 × WA pair.