Treasury receipt type
Employment and general retirement
Mostly Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes.
What this means
Treasury’s employment-tax bucket: Social Security, Medicare, and related retirement payroll receipts. It is easy to misread as “retirement spending”; it is money coming in, not benefits going out.
In the data
MTS receipts · FFY 2025
$1.7T
32.2% of receipts
Category
Employment and general retirement
Monthly Treasury Statement receipt type
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