Federal agency
Social Security Administration
Runs Social Security benefit programs and related operations.
What this means
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.
Source key: social-security-administration
In the data
Award obligations · FFY 2024
$1.5T
Awarding agency code SSA
Years archived
7
Fiscal years with this agency in the awards rollup
| 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 |
Obligations are legal commitments, not the same as Treasury outlays. See award obligations and agency outlays.