U.S. FEDERAL SPENDING · FUNCTION 650
Social Security
Retirement, disability & survivors. Follow the spending and understand what it includes.
Numbers tell a bigger story.
Week starts Monday · YTD starts January 1 · UTC. All-time history is not yet available.
ESTIMATED SPENDING · YTD
$1,364,253,886,621$52,863 per second · YTD, UTC
Selected range uses a constant historical pace, not actual payments recorded during this week, month or year.
FOLLOW THE BENEFITS
Where Social Security flows
States and territories, ranked by the most benefits paid. Explore each destination to see the breakdown.
Estimates use the average daily pace of SSA’s December 2025 monthly benefits and follow the time range above. Payments go to beneficiaries, not state governments. Actual payment schedules vary; these are modeled flows, not live transfers.
California
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Florida
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Texas
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New York
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Pennsylvania
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Ohio
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Illinois
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Michigan
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North Carolina
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Georgia
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New Jersey
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Virginia
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Washington
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Arizona
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Tennessee
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Massachusetts
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Indiana
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Wisconsin
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Missouri
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South Carolina
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Minnesota
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Maryland
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Alabama
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Colorado
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Oregon
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Kentucky
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Louisiana
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Connecticut
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Oklahoma
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Iowa
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Arkansas
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Mississippi
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Kansas
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Nevada
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Puerto Rico
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Utah
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New Mexico
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West Virginia
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Idaho
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Nebraska
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New Hampshire
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Maine
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Hawaii
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Delaware
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Montana
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Rhode Island
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South Dakota
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Vermont
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North Dakota
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Wyoming
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Alaska
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District of Columbia
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U.S. Virgin Islands
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Guam
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American Samoa
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Northern Mariana Islands
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Source, coverage & calculation
Source: Social Security Administration, OASDI Beneficiaries by State and County, 2025 · Table 3. Released August 2026; retrieved 2026-10-23. The figures describe benefits in current-payment status for December 2025. The source is published annually. Estimated pace equals the monthly amount divided by 31 days, then multiplied by elapsed seconds in the selected UTC day, week, month or year. This uniform pace does not follow actual scheduled benefit deposits and does not predict changes in eligibility or benefit levels. Estimates expire January 1, 2027 pending a verified source refresh. Reported period shows the unchanged December 2025 monthly amount. Pause and reduced-motion controls apply to the counters.
Amounts are converted from thousands of dollars to dollars. Retirement combines retired workers, spouses and children; survivors combines widow(er)s, parents and children; disability combines disabled workers, spouses and children. Components can differ from the published total by a few thousand dollars because of rounding.
Geography follows beneficiary residence. Coverage is the 50 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Virgin Islands breakdown is nested under its territory to avoid double counting. Foreign countries and unknown addresses are excluded from the ranked totals. OASDI covers retirement, survivors and disability insurance. This table excludes Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and program administration, so it does not reconcile to the broader Treasury spending counter. December payments are not an annual total or a current live feed.
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What does social security include?
BEHIND THE NUMBER
Social Security pays benefits to eligible retired workers, people with disabilities, and survivors. This function includes benefit payments and program administration.
- Retirement benefits
- Disability benefits
- Survivor benefits
These topics describe the full budget category. Available breakdowns on this page cover only the programs and reporting periods identified alongside them.
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Spending and debt answer different questions. This page shows spending within one federal budget function. The national debt is the accumulated outstanding balance of federal borrowing, not a sum of these category counters.
Source, calculation & original data
Source: U.S. Treasury, Monthly Treasury Statement, Table 9. Retrieved 2026-10-26. Reported total: $1,667,097,265,194.
Rate = reported amount ÷ 31,536,000 seconds in the reporting period. Estimated ranges apply this historical average to elapsed seconds since midnight today, Monday, the first of the month, or January 1 (UTC). These are modeled totals, not measured weekly, monthly or calendar-year outlays. The reported-period view shows the original published total. Estimates stop 45 days after the reporting period ends. Negative net outlays remain static.
Funds approved by law and actual outlays differ in timing and scope. This page does not claim to show a new congressional appropriation.
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