SSA Open Data | Conference Expense Information

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(Updated May 16, 2024)

These datasets contain annual data for fiscal year(s) 2012 on and are currently available in the following format(s):

FY 2022 - Due to COVID-19, we did not sponsor any conferences where the expenses exceeded $100,000.

FY 2021 - Due to COVID-19, we did not sponsor any conferences where the expenses exceeded $100,000.

As required by Office of Management and Budget Memorandum M-17-08, Amending OMB Memorandum M-12-12, Promoting Efficient Spending to Support Agency Operations, dated November 25, 2016, we report our conference information.

In accordance with President Obama's Executive Order "Making Open and Machine readable the New Default for Government Information" which he signed on May 9, 2013, new data released must have at least one machine-readable file format.

For more information or the data dictionary about the Social Security conference program, go to: Conference Information.

A Federal Fiscal Year (FY) is the 12-month period that starts the Saturday after the last Friday of September and ends the last Friday of September. Most years our fiscal year workload reports contain 52 weeks since we include only full weeks, rather than cut off in the middle of a week. Every few years the reporting period is 53 weeks when we apply the end of week cutoff.
Single asterisk (*): Conferences where expenses associated with the conference exceeded $100,000.

Conference Name: Name of the conference.

Total Expenses: The total conference expenses incurred by the agency.

Location: Conference location.

Date: Conference dates.

Number of Attendees: The total number of attendees whose travel expenses or other conference expenses were paid by the agency.

Mission Related Narrative: A brief explanation of how the conference advanced the mission of our agency.

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