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Award obligations from USAspending, with detail archived for FFY 2024 · 1 sub-agencies.
SSA administers Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance and related workloads. Benefit payments themselves often show up in trust-fund outlay lines as well as agency totals. Award figures on The Ledger come from archived USAspending awarding-agency rollups (obligations). That is not the same as every dollar the agency outlays.
Obligations · FFY 2024
$1.5T
Awarding agency SSA
Transactions
313,431
Award transactions in FFY 2024
Share of awards
30.5%
Of archived awarding-agency obligations in FFY 2024
MTS outlays · FFY 2025
$1.6T
Matched Monthly Treasury Statement line
| Fiscal year | Obligations |
|---|---|
| FFY 2024 | $1.5T |
| FFY 2023 | $1.4T |
| FFY 2022 | $1.3T |
| FFY 2021 | $1.2T |
| FFY 2018 | $1.0T |
| FFY 2017 | $991.2B |
| FFY 2016 | $969.7B |
| Category | Amount |
|---|---|
| Direct payments | $1.5T |
| Contracts | $1.9B |
| Grants | $84.0M |
| IDVs | $77.5M |
| Sub-agency | Code | Obligations | Transactions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Security Administration | SSA | $1.5T | 313,431 |
| Fiscal year | Net outlays |
|---|---|
| FFY 2025 | $1.6T |
| FFY 2024 | $1.5T |
| FFY 2023 | $1.4T |
| FFY 2022 | $1.3T |
| FFY 2021 | $1.2T |
| FFY 2018 | $1.0T |
| FFY 2017 | $1.0T |
| FFY 2016 | $976.8B |