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Social Security Retirement Insurance
Social Security Retirement Insurance had $1.3 trillion in federal award obligations in fiscal year 2025, according to USAspending.
That ranks 1 of 1,877 assistance programs with a figure in FY2025.
Identifiers
- Assistance Listing
- 96.002
The record
| Obligated · FY2025Assistance only — grants, loans, direct payments and insurance. Contracts carry no Assistance Listing number and are not in this figure. | $1.3 trillion$1,296,300,942,394 USD |
|---|---|
| Rank among assistance programs · FY2025 | 1 of 1,877 by obligations |
| Share of all assistance programs · FY2025Of $4.5 trillion, which is what every assistance program the publisher reported obligated in FY2025 — 85.3% of the $5.3 trillion federal total for the year. | 28.7% percent |
By fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Obligated |
|---|---|
| FY2023 | $1.1 trillion$1,087,609,426,151 |
| FY2024 | $1.2 trillion$1,184,564,536,138 |
| FY2025 | $1.3 trillion$1,296,300,942,394 |
| FY2026 (in progress) | $1.3 trillion$1,258,790,122,095 |
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
| Rank | assistance program | Obligated |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Social Security Retirement Insurance · this page | $1.3 trillion$1,296,300,942,394 |
| 2 | Grants to States for Medicaid | $666.1 billion$666,131,123,061 |
| 3 | Medicare Supplementary Medical Insurance | $568.6 billion$568,590,835,739 |
| 4 | Medicare Hospital Insurance | $432.5 billion$432,516,213,605 |
What this data cannot show
- 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 covers every assistance program the publisher reported and not only the largest hundred the ranking names. Both come from the same download of the publisher’s data, on the date above.
Related
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Sources
- USAspending API v2 — dimension aggregations — U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service · Public domain — U.S. Government work · retrieved October 12, 2026 · this record as JSON
Compiled automatically from USAspending API v2 — dimension aggregations by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built
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