Social Security Administration obligations in Tennessee 1st District (TN-01)
Social Security Administration in Tennessee 1st District (TN-01) shows $4,667,923,301.50 in USAspending.gov obligations. 1,056 awards sit behind the cell. FEC filings and USAspending awards are different datasets; campaign contributions do not fund this cell. The join is agency 028 plus congressional district geography, about 47.9% of the $9,746,450,666.98 district book. Keep the obligation label.
Key figures
- Social Security Administration in TN-01 shows $4,667,923,301.50 in USAspending obligations on 1,056 awards.
- 1,056 awards are a row count, not a census of beneficiaries, field offices, or monthly checks.
- The join is agency 028 plus TN-01, not TN-03 and not statewide Tennessee SSA.
- The total is commitments, not outlays. FEC donations do not fund this cell.
SSA in Tennessee 1st District is not a score against TN-03
Tennessee 1st District (TN-01) stores an SSA cell that is about half of this district's tagged book. Tennessee 3rd District in this slice has a much larger all-agency book; that is a different geography and not a ranking of which Tennessee district 'wins' on SSA. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $4,667,923,301.50 on 1,056 awards for awarding agency 028 with Tennessee 1st District (TN-01) as place of performance. Treat the pair as a table intersection, not a ranking of districts as winners or losers, and not a claim that 1,056 awards equal 1,056 beneficiaries. A Social Security Administration amount tagged to a different district is out of this cell.
HHS, Labor, or Treasury income-support listings stored under other awarding agencies sit outside $4,667,923,301.50 unless those awards also carry agency 028 and TN-01 geography. Mixing those lines would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and poverty rates or retirement ages is not causation. Those series are not in the packet. Place of performance as TN-01 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $4,667,923,301.50 in a district treasury. Do not fold TN-03 SSA into TN-01. Each district tag is its own join.
1,056 SSA awards in TN-01
One thousand fifty-six SSA awards is a thick-middle file. Mean obligation is not a typical monthly benefit. Mean obligation is about $4,420,381.91 if $4,667,923,301.50 were divided evenly across 1,056 lines — a mechanical ratio, not a published typical award. Award count is a row count of USAspending awards, including possible modifications. The extract does not split retirement from disability or SSI inside agency 028. Unique recipients are unpublished.
This page will not invent contractor or recipient names. Open Tennessee 1st District for the stored district table and Social Security Administration for the national agency shelf. Do not convert 1,056 into a map of beneficiaries, field offices, or monthly checks inside Tennessee 1st District. The $4,667,923,301.50 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines on USAspending.gov rather than inferring an inventory.
TN-01 SSA dollars remain obligations
SSA obligations are commitments, not checks already mailed. SSA awards often obligate as benefit-related accounts are charged and draw as payments or administration are billed. The $4,667,923,301.50 headline is the obligation sum on this district-agency join, not monthly benefits already on debit cards. Citing the figure as cash already sent confuses two USAspending concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. No fiscal year is attached to this packet; do not annualize $4,667,923,301.50 into a yearly run rate.
Keep the obligation word on $4,667,923,301.50. Keep both Social Security Administration and Tennessee 1st District (TN-01) in the citation. Campaign contributions recorded on FEC.gov do not fund this USAspending cell. Different datasets can share a state abbreviation without sharing a money trail.
Gaps in the Tennessee 1st District SSA join
The extract has no roster of beneficiaries, field offices, or monthly checks. Facts remain $4,667,923,301.50, 1,056 awards, agency 028 (Social Security Administration), Tennessee 1st District (TN-01), and a district-wide book of $9,746,450,666.98. This page will not invent a contractor league table. Sibling district-agency joins are separate obligation totals, not a better or worse score.
Tennessee 1st District places TN-01 among other congressional districts. Social Security Administration places agency 028 among other awarding agencies. Tennessee federal spending is the statewide shelf. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Mixing those shelves would invent a share of Tennessee spending or of Social Security Administration's national book the packet never computed. The $4,667,923,301.50 figure is the tagged pair only. Do not fold TN-03 SSA into TN-01. Each district tag is its own join.
Citing SSA in TN-01
A clean footnote names Social Security Administration (agency 028), Tennessee 1st District (TN-01), $4,667,923,301.50 in obligations, and 1,056 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not relabel 1,056 as a census of beneficiaries, field offices, or monthly checks. Quote the district overlay if you need every awarding agency in TN-01, and quote the agency page if you need Social Security Administration without a district filter. About 47.9% of the $9,746,450,666.98 district book sits on this agency in the extract; that percentage is a derived ratio, not a separate published table.
A ties page exists because two tables meet. One table is awarding agency 028. The other is congressional district place of performance as TN-01. The headline $4,667,923,301.50 is the obligation sum on that intersection. It is not a forecast, not a budget request, and not an outlay. It is also not a claim that Social Security Administration caused Tennessee 1st District's economy to grow, or that the district caused the awards to exist. If a later ingest moves the live overlay, prefer the overlay when the table and this snapshot diverge.
Questions
- How much did SSA obligate in Tennessee 1st District?
- USAspending.gov shows $4,667,923,301.50 in obligations for Social Security Administration (agency 028) with Tennessee 1st District (TN-01) as place of performance, across 1,056 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the district's entire income-support budget. Other agencies in the district sit outside this join.
- Do 1,056 awards mean 1,056 TN-01 beneficiaries?
- No. Award count is a row count of USAspending awards and can include continuations. It is not a census of beneficiaries, field offices, or monthly checks. The packet does not name recipients. Mean obligation of about $4,420,381.91 is a quotient, not a typical published award. See Tennessee 1st District for stored lines.
- Does this include SSA in Tennessee 3rd District?
- No. The join is awarding agency 028 crossed with TN-01 place of performance. The district-wide book on this extract is $9,746,450,666.98. Related agencies and other districts are not inside $4,667,923,301.50 unless they also carry both keys. Do not fold TN-03 SSA into TN-01. Each district tag is its own join.
- Is the TN-01 SSA total already paid as benefits?
- Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $4,667,923,301.50 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault's extract. Draws and remaining balances are not published in this packet. Remaining balances are not in the facts.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.