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1 A Closer Look at Mandatory Spending: Primarily Payments for Benefit Programs for Which Laws Set Eligibility Rules and Benefit Formulas [1] (April 30, 2021)

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IN FISCAL YEAR
A CLOSER                                              0REV:
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MANDATORYN
SPENDING
Primarily payments for benefit programs for which
laws set eligibility rules and benefit formulas
U        $4.6              $1.9             21.8%
Trillion          Trillion          of GDP
QMaindatory dutlay (net  .  Outlays for   Mandatory outlays
of offsetting receipts) by  Social Security and  (net of offsetting
the federaj government  Medic are (net of  receipts) in 2020
in 2020        offsetting receipts)
in 2020
MANDATORY SPENDING IN 2020
Billions of Dollars

1,450
Major Health
Care Programs
1,090
Social Security
1,052
Income Security Programs
977
Other Programs
171
Federal Civilian and
Military Retirement

Other

Medicare

Medicaid

DsabityInsirance

Old-Age and Survivors Insurance

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COVID-19 Unemployment   Recovery          Otner
Compensation            Rebates           Unemployment
Compensation

Supplemental
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Paycheck Protection Program
a     0.1 Other
Civilian

122        1       12 Other
Veterans' Programs
-Income Security
2 -282
Offsetting Receipts

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300

Supplemental
Nutrition
Assstance
Program

Earned Income,
Child, and Other
Tax Credits

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Relief Fund   Loan Programs
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1.500

MANDATORY SPENDING IN 2000 AND 2020
Percentage of GDP

4 2000   0 2020

Change, as a Percentage of GDP

Major Health Care Programs
Medicare
Medicaid
Other
Social Security
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance
Disability Insurance
Income Security Programs
COVID-19 Unemployment Compensation
Recovery Rebates
Other Unemployment Compensation
Earned Income, Child, and Other Tax Credits
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Supplemental Secuity Income
Other
Federal Civilian and Military Retirement
Veterans' Programs
Other Programs
Paycheck Protection Program
Coronavirus Relief Fund
Offsetting Receipts

-2.0       -1.0         0         1.0       2.0        3.0        4.0        5.0        6.0        7.0

0 Prepared by Christine Bogusz, Dan Ready, and Jorge Salazar
Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 2021

All data are for federal fiscal years,
which run from October 1 to September 30.
Numbers may not add up to totals because of rounding.

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