Social Security Administration obligations in Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01)

Two keys: awarding agency 028 and PA-01

Awarding agency 028 and congressional district PA-01 meet here. $3,736,638,281.60 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 Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split OASDI, SSI, or contract versus assistance instruments. 150 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 Unique recipients are unpublished.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 $3,736,638,281.60 by 150 yields about $24,910,921.88 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 150 awards against a three-point-seven-billion-dollar SSA cell is a thin file. The implied mean is pulled up by size and is not a typical small award. Do not treat PA-01’s 028 cell as a synonym for every SSA account nationwide. Open Pennsylvania 1st District for the district table without this agency filter, Social Security Administration for agency 028 without the PA-01 filter, Pennsylvania federal spending for every awarding agency in the Pennsylvania extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $3,736,638,281.60.

Agency 028 is a rollup, not a program catalog

USAspending labels awarding agency 028 as Social Security Administration. That code produced $3,736,638,281.60 when crossed with Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01) place of performance. The agency-wide 028 hub does not require PA-01 geography. The district hub does not require SSA. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 150 awards. The packet does not split OASDI, SSI, or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01) did not cause $3,736,638,281.60 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 028 × PA-01 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.

PA-01 is a congressional code, not a city list

Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list PA-01 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Pennsylvania districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 028. Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Pennsylvania. Other Pennsylvania districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 028. Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01) is not Pennsylvania 12th District. PA-12’s HHS cell is a different awarding-agency filter on a different stamp.

Pennsylvania federal spending shows how agency 028 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $3,736,638,281.60 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01) 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 $10,280,342,470.01; $3,736,638,281.60 is the SSA slice of that denominator.

Commitments recorded, not Treasury checks cleared

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $3,736,638,281.60 is that kind of sum for Social Security Administration inside PA-01 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 $3,736,638,281.60 as given.

Footnoting agency 028 in Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01)

Cite USAspending.gov: Social Security Administration (agency 028) obligated $3,736,638,281.60 on 150 awards coded to Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01). Name Social Security Administration and Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01) together. Keep the obligation word. If Pennsylvania 1st 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. 36.3% of $10,280,342,470.01 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

A thin action file is still one cell

150 awards against a three-point-seven-billion-dollar SSA cell is a thin file. The implied mean is pulled up by size and is not a typical small award. 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 $24,910,921.88) and the district share (36.3% of $10,280,342,470.01) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Pennsylvania 1st District and Social Security Administration if the live tables moved.

Questions

How much SSA spending is coded to Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01)?

USAspending.gov lists $3,736,638,281.60 in SSA (agency 028) obligations across 150 awards coded to Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01). That pair is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Pennsylvania’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 36.3% of the district’s published total ($10,280,342,470.01). Unique recipients are unpublished.

Does $3,736,638,281.60 include every SSA program in PA-01?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split OASDI, SSI, or contract versus assistance instruments. $3,736,638,281.60 is the combined obligation sum for agency 028 inside PA-01 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. 150 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $3,736,638,281.60 cash already paid in Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01)?

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 $3,736,638,281.60 as checks already cleared in Pennsylvania 1st District (PA-01) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 150 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.

Does award count 150 equal unique SSA vendors?

No. 150 is an action count on USAspending.gov awards tagged to agency 028 and PA-01. Modifications and continuations add rows. Unique vendors, payees, and offices are unpublished. The dollar total remains $3,736,638,281.60 in obligations, not outlays.