Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation in Illinois

An extremely thin PBGC file on Illinois

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation as awarding agency, Illinois as place-of-performance: 24 records summing to $1,429,626,989.35. A Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation award coded outside IL is out. An award in Illinois from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Illinois (IL) excludes Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Iowa. An Indiana-coded PBGC award is not this cell.

Twenty-four awards against $1,429,626,989.35 is an extremely thin, high-mean PBGC file. One restatement can move the mean quickly. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 24 as 24 unique unique pension plans, covered participants, or guaranteed benefits already paid. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation in Illinois is the both-keys table. Illinois federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is the agency book without an IL filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Named terminated plans are unpublished. Do not treat 24 as a Chicago-only trustee list. Agency 1602 is not EPA 068. Correlation is not causation: Illinois did not cause $1,429,626,989.35 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 1602 × IL only. Campaign contributions do not fund these USAspending awards.

24 rows are not 24 pension plans

$1,429,626,989.35 does not measure unique pension plans, covered participants, or guaranteed benefits already paid. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 1602 and an IL place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 24 awards as a census of unique pension plans, covered participants, or guaranteed benefits already paid. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Illinois federal spending or Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation matched $1,429,626,989.35 and 24, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Indiana and the New York PBGC join in this slice are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation obligated in Illinois?

USAspending.gov records $1,429,626,989.35 across 24 awards with awarding agency 1602 and an Illinois tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unique pension plans, covered participants, or guaranteed benefits already paid. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation in Illinois is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,429,626,989.35.

Is $1,429,626,989.35 a measure of unique pension plans, covered participants, or guaranteed benefits already paid?

No. The packet publishes $1,429,626,989.35 and 24 awards for agency 1602 inside IL coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this PBGC file have 24 awards?

That is the award-record count for 1602 × IL. Combined with $1,429,626,989.35, the average is about $59.57 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 24 is not unique unique pension plans, covered participants, or guaranteed benefits already paid. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live PBGC–Illinois table?

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation in Illinois is the overlay. Illinois federal spending and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $1,429,626,989.35. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.