Social Security Administration obligations in Arkansas 4th District (AR-04)

The Arkansas 4th District (AR-04) filter on SSA

Awarding agency 028 and congressional district AR-04 meet here. $3,861,926,966 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Social Security Administration’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Arkansas 4th District (AR-04), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split OASDI, SSI, or contract versus assistance instruments. 2,339 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a beneficiary census, a field-office roster, a named-payee file, or a retirement-check register.

Dividing $3,861,926,966 by 2,339 yields about $1,651,101.74 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 2,339 awards is a thick SSA file, slightly thicker than AR-01’s SSA row count on a sister page. Unique recipients remain unpublished. Do not treat AR-04’s 028 cell as a synonym for every SSA account nationwide. Open Arkansas 4th District for the district table without this agency filter, Social Security Administration for agency 028 without the AR-04 filter, Arkansas federal spending for every awarding agency in the Arkansas extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $3,861,926,966.

The Social Security Administration awarding-agency rollup

USAspending labels awarding agency 028 as Social Security Administration. That code produced $3,861,926,966 when crossed with Arkansas 4th District (AR-04) place of performance. The agency-wide 028 hub does not require AR-04 geography. The district hub does not require SSA. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 2,339 awards. The packet does not split OASDI, SSI, or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Arkansas 4th District (AR-04) did not cause $3,861,926,966 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 028 × AR-04 only. It is not a beneficiary census, a field-office roster, a named-payee file, or a retirement-check register. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.

Reading the AR-04 stamp

Arkansas 4th District (AR-04) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list AR-04 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Arkansas districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 028. Arkansas 4th District (AR-04) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Arkansas. Other Arkansas districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 028. Arkansas 4th District (AR-04) is a numbered place-of-performance code inside Arkansas. AR-01 is a different stamp even when agency 028 appears there.

Arkansas federal spending shows how agency 028 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $3,861,926,966 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Arkansas 4th District (AR-04) by county, city, or census tract. Awards that carry a different awarding-agency code stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to Social Security Administration. The district-wide obligation total published here is $7,630,161,345.60; $3,861,926,966 is the SSA slice of that denominator.

USAspending obligations on this pair

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $3,861,926,966 is that kind of sum for Social Security Administration inside AR-04 coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $3,861,926,966 as given.

Arkansas’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 2,339-row SSA cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 2,339 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. The implied mean ($1,651,101.74) is a concentration statistic, not a typical AR-04 SSA payment.

Citing $3,861,926,966 without dropping a join side

Cite USAspending.gov: Social Security Administration (agency 028) obligated $3,861,926,966 on 2,339 awards coded to Arkansas 4th District (AR-04). Name Social Security Administration and Arkansas 4th District (AR-04) together. Keep the obligation word. If Arkansas 4th District or Social Security Administration has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a beneficiary census, a field-office roster, a named-payee file, or a retirement-check register. 50.6% of $7,630,161,345.60 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Row count versus dollar concentration

2,339 awards is a thick SSA file, slightly thicker than AR-01’s SSA row count on a sister page. Unique recipients remain unpublished. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $1,651,101.74) and the district share (50.6% of $7,630,161,345.60) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Arkansas 4th District and Social Security Administration if the live tables moved.

Questions

How much SSA spending is coded to Arkansas 4th District (AR-04)?

USAspending.gov lists $3,861,926,966 in SSA (agency 028) obligations across 2,339 awards coded to Arkansas 4th District (AR-04). That pair is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Arkansas’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 50.6% of the district’s published total ($7,630,161,345.60). Unique recipients are unpublished.

Does $3,861,926,966 include every SSA program in AR-04?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split OASDI, SSI, or contract versus assistance instruments. $3,861,926,966 is the combined obligation sum for agency 028 inside AR-04 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. 2,339 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $3,861,926,966 cash already paid in Arkansas 4th District (AR-04)?

No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $3,861,926,966 as checks already cleared in Arkansas 4th District (AR-04) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 2,339 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

Why is the implied average $1,651,101.74 not a typical award?

The average is $3,861,926,966 divided by 2,339 awards, about $1,651,101.74. Thick files pull the mean down; thin files pull it up. Neither case publishes a typical instrument. Modifications add rows. Recipients are unpublished. Use the ratio only as a concentration statistic.