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Social Security Administration (SSA)

Federal contract spending profile, contract obligations, budget authority and top contractors, from USAspending.gov.

Corpus rank
#19 of 65
Contract obligations (CY2024)
$1.9B
Budget authority
$1271.5B
Agency
SSA

Year-over-year change, 2019–2024

Across the calendar years on file, Social Security Administration’s annual contract obligations fell from $1.9B in 2023 to $1.9B in 2024. 2.1% vs 2023 The strongest year on file is 2020 at $2.0B.

$1.4B$1.6B$1.8B$2B$2.2B 201920202021202220232024 $1.87B
Social Security Administration annual contract obligations, calendar 2019-2024

Calendar-year prime contract obligations by action date (award types A-D). Annual figures share the calendar-year basis of the CY2024 headline above; budget authority is a separate measure.

Source: USAspending.gov spending_by_category

How Social Security Administration leads the CY2024 obligation board

$1.9B · #19 of 65 by CY2024 contract obligations (above the median) - a top-third USAspending agency by calendar-2024 contract obligations (same board as the agencies listing). See methodology.

From calendar 2019 to 2024, Social Security Administration slipped from #18 to #19 of 66 agencies in the annual contract-obligation series. Its share of that year’s tracked agency total moved from 0.27% to 0.25%. Across the available annual series, its obligations ranged from $1.5B in 2019 to $2.0B in 2020, a 1.3x spread.

Leidos, Inc. is the largest listed prime contractor at $315.9M, or 16.9% of this agency’s calendar-2024 obligation total. The table below shows the remaining named prime recipients in the extract. Contract obligations ($1.9B) are a thin slice of the $1271.5B budget-authority ceiling - most of the legal authority is outside this contract window. Methodology documents the distinct populations and the Treasury source fields.

Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury

Nearby mega-scale agencies

Data-derived peers across the USAspending agency extract: nearest contract-obligation scale and nearest budget authority. Not recommendations or same-department siblings.

Disclaimer: Data from USAspending.gov public records. For informational purposes only. Contract amounts are aggregated and may not reflect the most current modifications or de-obligations. Always verify with official sources.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Compiled from USAspending.gov by the PlainFedContract editorial process.