Supplemental Security Income in Virginia

Virginia on the SSI table

CFDA 96.006 is titled SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME. Crossed with Virginia place of performance, obligations sum to $3,209,924,364 on 5,829 awards. The national Supplemental Security Income hub includes other states. Virginia’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $3,209,924,364 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a DDS caseload or an ALJ hearing count.

5,829 rows is a high-volume payment-instrument pattern. The implied mean of about $550,682 per award is a batch scale, not a typical monthly SSI check, and not a count of Virginians on SSI. The join does not name recipients, list contractors, or invent donor names. Packet facts stop at $3,209,924,364, 5,829 awards, VA, and 96.006. Correlation is not causation. Virginia’s 5,829 SSI instruments against $3,209,924,364 look like a payment-batch file, not a roster of Virginians receiving SSI.

Keep SSI separate from other SSA catalogs

The catalog title names Supplemental Security Income. It is not Social Security retirement, survivors, or disability insurance. Mixing other catalogs into $3,209,924,364 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Virginia, CFDA 96.006, $3,209,924,364, 5,829 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $3,209,924,364 by 5,829 yields about $550,682 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 5,829 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.

Virginia place-of-performance notes

VA is the place-of-performance code. Awards coded to Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, or the District of Columbia stay outside $3,209,924,364 even when a recipient later moves. A statewide SSI obligation can still appear as records tagged to Richmond, Norfolk, or another in-state address. The code does not convert $3,209,924,364 into a county map or a ranking of places as winners or losers.

Virginia federal spending is the all-program parent. 96.006 is one row on Virginia programs. $3,209,924,364 is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Supplemental Security Income in Virginia for the filtered table, CFDA 96.006 for 96.006 without a Virginia filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $3,209,924,364.

5,829 awards under $3.21 billion

$3,209,924,364 ÷ 5,829 is about $550,682 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 5,829 as a record count. Northern Virginia addresses near the District of Columbia still count as VA when the place-of-performance code is VA; that does not move the cell into another state.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $3,209,924,364 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 5,829 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $3,209,924,364 without changing the join key of 96.006 and VA.

What SSI in Virginia does not show

A 96.006 total tagged to Virginia 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 $3,209,924,364 on 5,829 awards for Supplemental Security Income in Virginia.

Keep both sides of the join: Supplemental Security Income and Virginia, obligations only. Do not annualize $3,209,924,364 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 5,829 as a person or contractor census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a policy story.

Opening the SSI–Virginia overlay

The overlay target is the Virginia × CFDA 96.006 table. Open Supplemental Security Income in Virginia when you want the same $3,209,924,364 / 5,829-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 96.006 drops the Virginia filter. Virginia federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Virginia 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 Virginia won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 96.006 plus VA. Obligations of $3,209,924,364 are not outlays.

Questions

How much Supplemental Security Income funding is obligated in Virginia?

USAspending records $3,209,924,364 in CFDA 96.006 obligations with Virginia place of performance on 5,829 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Supplemental Security Income and Virginia together when citing $3,209,924,364. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 5,829 awards mean 5,829 people or contractors?

No. 5,829 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $550,682 per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $3,209,924,364 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Is $3.21 billion Virginia’s complete federal income-support spend?

No. $3,209,924,364 is only the 96.006 × Virginia cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Virginia program pages. Nationwide 96.006 is not limited to Virginia. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 96.006 × VA pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Virginia 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–Virginia table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.