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Social Security Retirement Insurance

Social Security Retirement Insurance recorded $1.1 trillion of federal assistance obligations under this Assistance Listing in fiscal year 2026, which ranks 1 of 1,888 assistance programs with a figure in FY2026.

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Identifiers

Assistance Listing
96.002

The record

Reported figures for Social Security Retirement Insurance, each linked to its source
Obligated · FY2026Assistance only — grants, loans, direct payments and insurance. Contracts carry no Assistance Listing number and are not in this figure.$1,141,274,564,962USD
Rank among assistance programs · FY20261 of 1,888by obligations
Share of all assistance programs · FY2026Of $4.1 trillion, which is what every assistance program the publisher reported obligated in FY2026 — not the federal total, which is larger.27.7%percent

By fiscal year

Social Security Retirement Insurance: federal assistance obligations under this Assistance Listing, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$967,175,446,716
FY2023$1,087,609,426,151
FY2024$1,184,564,536,138
FY2025$1,296,300,942,394
FY2026$1,141,274,564,962

The publisher holds five fiscal years of this breakdown. A year missing from this table is a year this assistance program was not reported in, not a year of no spending.

The nearest ranks

assistance programs ranked nearest Social Security Retirement Insurance, FY2026
Rankassistance programObligated
2Grants to States for Medicaid$722,912,092,189
3Medicare Supplementary Medical Insurance$534,958,472,971
4Medicare Hospital Insurance$398,954,801,729

What this data cannot show

  • The fiscal year is not over. These are obligations recorded so far, and a figure here is not comparable with a full year.
  • An obligation is a binding commitment to pay, not money paid. Outlays are reported separately and the two are never equal in the same year.
  • Assistance only — grants, loans, direct payments and insurance. Contracts carry no Assistance Listing number and are not in this figure.
  • This page is built from the database rather than from the committed extract, so it covers every assistance program the publisher reported and not only the largest hundred the ranking names. Both come from the same ingest on the date above.

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