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Social Security Administration obligations in Wisconsin 4th District (WI-04)

Awarding agency 028 and Wisconsin 4th District (WI-04) meet at $3,819,229,394 in USAspending.gov obligations, spread across 193 awards. One hundred ninety-three SSA-coded awards cover about forty-five percent of WI-04’s district obligation total — a thin row count with a nine-figure implied mean rather than a field-office roster. That pair is Social Security Administration and Wisconsin 4th District (WI-04) — not Wisconsin’s entire federal inflow, not Social Security Administration nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 45.1% of this district’s published obligation total ($8,470,975,388.49). Implied average obligation is about $19,788,753.34 ($3,819,229,394 ÷ 193). Correlation is not causation.

Key figures

  • SSA in Wisconsin 4th District (WI-04): $3,819,229,394 across 193 USAspending awards.
  • Implied mean about $19,788,753.34 per record; district share 45.1% of $8,470,975,388.49.
  • Agency 028 × WI-04 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
  • Cite USAspending.gov; quote Wisconsin 4th District and Social Security Administration if live tables moved.
  • Wisconsin federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $3,819,229,394.

Reading agency 028 inside WI-04

Awarding agency 028 and congressional district WI-04 meet here. $3,819,229,394 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 Wisconsin 4th District (WI-04), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split OASDI, SSI, or contract versus assistance instruments. 193 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 Unique recipients are unpublished.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.

This page reports Social Security Administration awarding activity USAspending tagged to this district. The headline $3,819,229,394 sits beside a district-wide obligation total of $8,470,975,388.49; the 45.1% share is arithmetic on those two packet facts, not a ranking of Wisconsin districts as winners or losers. District 90 and 98 placeholders are omitted from this harvest. Obligations are not outlays.

Agency 028 without inventing a component pie

USAspending labels awarding agency 028 as Social Security Administration. That code produced $3,819,229,394 when crossed with Wisconsin 4th District (WI-04) place of performance. The agency-wide 028 hub does not require WI-04 geography. The district hub does not require SSA. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 193 awards. The packet does not split OASDI, SSI, or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: Wisconsin 4th District (WI-04) did not cause $3,819,229,394 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 028 × WI-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.

How Wisconsin 4th District is coded

Wisconsin 4th District (WI-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 WI-04 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Wisconsin districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 028. Wisconsin 4th District (WI-04) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Wisconsin. Other Wisconsin districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 028. Wisconsin 4th District (WI-04) is a numbered stamp beside WI-08, WI-06, and WI-05. A thinner SSA file than those sister cells is still a separate join, not a worse district.

Wisconsin federal spending shows how agency 028 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $3,819,229,394 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Wisconsin 4th District (WI-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 $8,470,975,388.49; $3,819,229,394 is the SSA slice of that denominator.

What the dollar figure is allowed to mean

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $3,819,229,394 is that kind of sum for Social Security Administration inside WI-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 $3,819,229,394 as given.

Wisconsin’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 193-row SSA cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 193 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 ($19,788,753.34) is a concentration statistic, not a typical WI-04 SSA payment.

Parents of this tie: district, agency, state

Cite USAspending.gov: Social Security Administration (agency 028) obligated $3,819,229,394 on 193 awards coded to Wisconsin 4th District (WI-04). Name Social Security Administration and Wisconsin 4th District (WI-04) together. Keep the obligation word. If Wisconsin 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. 45.1% of $8,470,975,388.49 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Keep Social Security Administration, Wisconsin 4th District (WI-04), $3,819,229,394, and 193 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Social Security Administration is the 028 parent without a WI-04 filter. Wisconsin federal spending is the Wisconsin parent. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a district with SSA does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. This page reports one USAspending join.

Limits of the WI-04 × 028 snapshot

193 awards against a three-point-eight-billion-dollar SSA cell is a thin-to-compact file. Do not read 193 as one hundred ninety-three unique payees. 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 $19,788,753.34) and the district share (45.1% of $8,470,975,388.49) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Wisconsin 4th District and Social Security Administration if the live tables moved.

Questions

How much SSA spending is coded to Wisconsin 4th District (WI-04)?
USAspending.gov lists $3,819,229,394 in SSA (agency 028) obligations across 193 awards coded to Wisconsin 4th District (WI-04). That pair is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Wisconsin’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 45.1% of the district’s published total ($8,470,975,388.49). Unique recipients are unpublished.
Does $3,819,229,394 include every SSA program in WI-04?
The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split OASDI, SSI, or contract versus assistance instruments. $3,819,229,394 is the combined obligation sum for agency 028 inside WI-04 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. 193 remains an action count, not a program count.
Is $3,819,229,394 cash already paid in Wisconsin 4th District (WI-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 $3,819,229,394 as checks already cleared in Wisconsin 4th District (WI-04) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 193 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
Do FEC donations fund these SSA awards in WI-04?
No. FEC receipts and USAspending obligations are different datasets. Sharing Wisconsin geography does not mean donations funded $3,819,229,394 in Wisconsin 4th District (WI-04). This page reports USAspending.gov awarding-agency 028 crossed with place of performance WI-04. It does not report campaign finance.

USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.