Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation federal obligations in District of Columbia

A thin PBGC file on the District

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation as awarding agency, District of Columbia as place-of-performance: 293 records summing to $1,724,833,470.09. A Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation award coded outside DC is out. An award in District of Columbia from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. District of Columbia (DC) excludes Maryland and Virginia. Headquarters geography is not a license to fold suburban awards into DC.

Two hundred ninety-three awards against $1,724,833,470.09 is a thin PBGC file: few rows, large implied mean. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 293 as 293 unique terminated pension plans, beneficiaries, or unique employers. The overlay Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation in District of Columbia is the both-keys table. District of Columbia federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is the agency book without a DC filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Place of performance in the District is not PBGC’s nationwide obligation total. Single-employer versus multiemployer books are unpublished here. Correlation is not causation: District of Columbia did not cause $1,724,833,470.09 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 1602 × DC only.

Not terminated plans or a beneficiary headcount

$1,724,833,470.09 does not measure terminated pension plans, beneficiaries, or unique employers. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 1602 and a DC place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 293 awards as a census of terminated pension plans, beneficiaries, or unique employers. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If District of Columbia federal spending or Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation matched $1,724,833,470.09 and 293, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Maryland and Virginia PBGC joins are other pairs, not addends.

D.C. place of performance is not the national PBGC book

Place of performance DC is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. District of Columbia (DC) excludes Maryland and Virginia. Headquarters geography is not a license to fold suburban awards into DC. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Place of performance in the District is not PBGC’s nationwide obligation total. Single-employer versus multiemployer books are unpublished here. This packet does not split $1,724,833,470.09 by city, county, or named facility. 293 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Few vehicles, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,724,833,470.09 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in District of Columbia confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

District of Columbia’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 293-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $1,724,833,470.09.

Citing PBGC in the District

Cite USAspending.gov: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (agency 1602) obligated $1,724,833,470.09 on 293 awards coded to District of Columbia. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as terminated pension plans, beneficiaries, or unique employers.

Prefer Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation in District of Columbia if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. District of Columbia federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to DC. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is the 1602 parent without the DC filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,724,833,470.09.

A usable footnote names Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, District of Columbia, $1,724,833,470.09, and 293. The compact headline $1.72 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $5.89 million is $1,724,833,470.09 divided by 293. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation obligated in District of Columbia?

USAspending.gov records $1,724,833,470.09 across 293 awards with awarding agency 1602 and a District of Columbia tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of terminated pension plans, beneficiaries, or unique employers. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation in District of Columbia is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,724,833,470.09.

Is $1,724,833,470.09 a measure of terminated pension plans, beneficiaries, or unique employers?

No. The packet publishes $1,724,833,470.09 and 293 awards for agency 1602 inside DC 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 293 awards?

That is the award-record count for 1602 × DC. Combined with $1,724,833,470.09, the average is about $5.89 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 293 is not unique terminated pension plans, beneficiaries, or unique employers. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live PBGC–District of Columbia table?

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation in District of Columbia is the overlay. District of Columbia 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 $1,724,833,470.09. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays. Place of performance is DC.