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Income Security

$639.4 billion of gross federal outlays were reported under the Income Security heading in fiscal year 2026, the 6 largest of 18 budget functions. Department of Agriculture accounts for 18.8% of it.

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Budget function
Income Security

The record

Reported figures for Income Security, each linked to its source
Outlays · FY2026Gross outlays, not net. At this grain they are routinely negative for some agencies, which is why nothing here calls them money spent.$639,386,640,521USD, gross
Obligations · FY2026$652,688,359,582USD
Rank among budget functions · FY20266 of 18by outlays
Share of all budget functions · FY20267.3%percent of outlays under every heading
Agencies reporting under it · FY202613agencies

Agencies reporting under this heading

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Agencies reporting outlays under Income Security, fiscal year 2026
RankAgencyOutlays
1Department of Agriculture$120,108,027,361
2Department of the Treasury$103,169,084,044
3Office of Personnel Management$99,797,291,844
4Department of Defense$75,394,495,992
5Social Security Administration$66,618,267,267
6Department of Housing and Urban Development$63,337,013,662
7Department of Health and Human Services$46,279,063,709
8Department of Labor$40,309,767,864
9Railroad Retirement Board$13,145,222,199
10Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation$9,899,951,327
11Department of State$1,307,841,146
12Agency for International Development$19,198,139
13U.S. Agency for Global Media$1,415,965

An agency with a top-tier code and no name reports this function to the account data and does not appear in the award table the names come from. Its figure is the publisher’s; the missing name is ours.

What this data cannot show

  • A budget function is reported per agency and never nationally. The figure at the top of this page is a sum over the rows in the table below, not a total the publisher published.
  • Gross outlays are not net outlays and neither is money spent in the sense a reader means. An agency’s figure can be negative when it recovers more than it pays out under a heading in the period.
  • The fiscal year is not over. These are the figures reported so far.
  • Budget functions describe purpose, not programme. Money under one heading can pay for work a reader would file under several, and one programme can appear under more than one heading in different agencies.

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