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Social Security Budget

The Social Security Administration’s FY2025 President’s Budget and the distinction between discretionary administrative funding and mandatory benefit flows

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Jan 26, 2026
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What congressional appropriations bill covers the Social Security Administration?

’s day-to-day operations and Supplemental Security Income administrative accounts are funded through annual appropriations process and are included in the larger spending packages that lawmakers assem...

Jan 27, 2026
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Which specific FY2026 appropriations text (bill or explanatory statement) contains the SSA Limitation on Administrative Expenses line item and its dollar amount?

FY2026 Limitation on Administrative Expenses (LAE) dollar figure appears as a line item in SSA’s FY2026 Congressional Justification and materials, where SSA requested $14.793 billion for total LAE . T...

Feb 5, 2026

What legal protections prevent presidents from using Social Security funds for non-Social Security programs?

The Social Security system is built on statutory trust funds and a web of legal rules that make unilateral presidential diversion of those funds into unrelated programs legally constrained: trust fund...

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