Supplemental Security Income obligations in Massachusetts

What the 96.006–Massachusetts join is

CFDA 96.006 is titled SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME. Crossed with Massachusetts place of performance, obligations sum to $3,451,440,357 on 1,367 awards. The national SSI hub includes other states. Massachusetts’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $3,451,440,357 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of SSI recipients in Boston, Springfield, or Worcester.

1,367 awards is a thinner SSI book than North Carolina’s 96.006 cell, which means a higher mean per record. That is a reporting pattern, not a ranking of states. The join does not name SSA field offices, list beneficiaries, or count eligible people. Packet facts stop at $3,451,440,357, 1,367 awards, MA, and 96.006.

96.006 is not survivors insurance or SSDI

Social Security Survivors Insurance (CFDA 96.004) and disability insurance are different SSA catalogs. Mixing those dollars into $3,451,440,357 would invent a broader income-security total than this cell contains. Facts available: Massachusetts, CFDA 96.006, $3,451,440,357, 1,367 awards. Benefit formulas and caseload counts are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Supplemental Security Income, not a ranking of county poverty. Dividing $3,451,440,357 by 1,367 yields about $2,524,828 per award—a record-level ratio, not a typical monthly SSI check. Unique recipients are unpublished. 1,367 is not a count of households.

Massachusetts geography on the SSI tag

MA is the place-of-performance code. An SSI award can still appear as records tagged to Boston, Springfield, or another in-state address. Awards coded to Rhode Island, New Hampshire, or Connecticut stay outside $3,451,440,357 even when a beneficiary lives in a cross-border metro. The code does not convert $3.45 billion into a county map.

Massachusetts federal spending is the all-program parent. 96.006 is one row on Massachusetts programs. $3.45 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Supplemental Security Income in Massachusetts for the filtered table, CFDA 96.006 for 96.006 without a Massachusetts filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $3,451,440,357.

Reading 1,367 awards under $3.45 billion

$3,451,440,357 ÷ 1,367 is about $2,524,828 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 1,367 as a record count, not as 1,367 finished cases.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $3,451,440,357 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 1,367 rows are continuations, corrections, or payment batches. Later ingests can restate $3,451,440,357 without changing the join key of 96.006 and MA.

What the SSI–Massachusetts pair does not prove

A large 96.006 total tagged to Massachusetts does not measure whether 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 $3,451,440,357 on 1,367 awards for Supplemental Security Income in Massachusetts.

Keep both sides of the join: Supplemental Security Income and Massachusetts, obligations only. Do not annualize $3,451,440,357 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 1,367 as a beneficiary census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a hardship story.

Using the 96.006–Massachusetts overlay

The overlay target is the Massachusetts × CFDA 96.006 table. Open Supplemental Security Income in Massachusetts when you want the same $3,451,440,357 / 1,367-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 96.006 drops the Massachusetts filter. Massachusetts federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Massachusetts programs lists other catalogs beside SSI. 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 Massachusetts won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 96.006 plus MA. Obligations of $3,451,440,357 are not outlays.

Questions

How much Supplemental Security Income is obligated in Massachusetts?

USAspending records $3,451,440,357 in CFDA 96.006 obligations with Massachusetts place of performance on 1,367 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not survivors insurance. Keep Supplemental Security Income and Massachusetts together when citing $3,451,440,357.

Are 1,367 awards 1,367 SSI recipients?

1,367 is an award-record count, not a beneficiary census. SSA programs can post many payment instruments. The mean is about $2,524,828 per award, a ratio, not a typical monthly check. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Is this Massachusetts’s total Social Security spending?

No. This join is CFDA 96.006 only. Survivors, retirement, and disability catalogs appear on separate Massachusetts program pages. Nationwide 96.006 is not limited to Massachusetts. Obligations of $3,451,440,357 are not outlays.

Where is the live 96.006–Massachusetts table?

The overlay is Supplemental Security Income in Massachusetts. CFDA 96.006 drops the state filter. Massachusetts federal spending and Massachusetts programs are the state parents. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.