Supplemental Security Income in Alabama

Alabama on the 96.006 table

CFDA 96.006 is titled SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME. Crossed with Alabama place of performance, obligations sum to $2,956,289,048 on 4,455 awards. The national Supplemental Security Income hub includes other states. Alabama’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,956,289,048 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a county caseload or a hearing docket.

4,455 awards is a high-volume SSI pattern close to Louisiana’s 4,271-row cell, with an implied mean of about $663,589 per award. That mean is a payment-batch scale, not a typical monthly SSI check and not a ranking of states by need. The join does not name recipients, list contractors, or invent donor names. Packet facts stop at $2,956,289,048, 4,455 awards, AL, and 96.006. Correlation is not causation. Alabama’s 4,455 SSI instruments against $2,956,289,048 look like Louisiana’s high-count SSI pattern without ranking either state as worse off.

Do not fold SSI into other SSA catalogs

The catalog title names Supplemental Security Income. It is not Social Security retirement or disability insurance. Mixing other catalogs into $2,956,289,048 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Alabama, CFDA 96.006, $2,956,289,048, 4,455 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $2,956,289,048 by 4,455 yields about $663,589 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 4,455 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.

Alabama place-of-performance notes

AL is the place-of-performance code. Awards coded to Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, or Florida stay outside $2,956,289,048 even when a recipient later moves. A statewide SSI obligation can still appear as records tagged to Montgomery, Birmingham, or another in-state address. The code does not convert $2,956,289,048 into a county map or a ranking of places as winners or losers.

Alabama federal spending is the all-program parent. 96.006 is one row on Alabama programs. $2,956,289,048 is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Supplemental Security Income in Alabama for the filtered table, CFDA 96.006 for 96.006 without a Alabama filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,956,289,048.

4,455 awards under $2.96 billion

$2,956,289,048 ÷ 4,455 is about $663,589 per award. That average is not a median and not a typical household, student, or meal payment. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 4,455 as a record count. A Birmingham or Montgomery address on an SSI instrument does not convert $2,956,289,048 into a county poverty map.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $2,956,289,048 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 4,455 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $2,956,289,048 without changing the join key of 96.006 and AL.

What SSI in Alabama does not show

A 96.006 total tagged to Alabama does not measure program quality, and it does not equal cash already paid. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $2,956,289,048 on 4,455 awards for Supplemental Security Income in Alabama.

Keep both sides of the join: Supplemental Security Income and Alabama, obligations only. Do not annualize $2,956,289,048 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 4,455 as a person or contractor census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a policy story.

Opening the SSI–Alabama overlay

The overlay target is the Alabama × CFDA 96.006 table. Open Supplemental Security Income in Alabama when you want the same $2,956,289,048 / 4,455-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 96.006 drops the Alabama filter. Alabama federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Alabama programs lists other catalogs beside 96.006. 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 Alabama won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 96.006 plus AL. Obligations of $2,956,289,048 are not outlays.

Questions

How much Supplemental Security Income funding is obligated in Alabama?

USAspending records $2,956,289,048 in CFDA 96.006 obligations with Alabama place of performance on 4,455 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Supplemental Security Income and Alabama together when citing $2,956,289,048. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 4,455 awards mean 4,455 people or contractors?

No. 4,455 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $663,589 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $2,956,289,048 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does a high SSI award count mean Alabama is worse off?

No. $2,956,289,048 is only the 96.006 × Alabama cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Alabama program pages. Nationwide 96.006 is not limited to Alabama. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 96.006 × AL pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Alabama as better or worse.

Have these Supplemental Security Income dollars already been paid?

The figure is an obligation aggregate, not an outlay. USAspending.gov is the source. This join does not name recipients or contractors. FEC donations do not fund this cell. The overlay is the live Supplemental Security Income–Alabama table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.