Federal-Level Welfare Stack BETA — Taxpayer-Paid Welfare Stack

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Federal program families

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Direct household value

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State-administered

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State database candidates

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Assistance mechanisms

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Federal agencies

Where this goes next

A scalable public-benefits intelligence layer for strategic partners, institutional funders, private donors, and future enterprise customers.

Current federal program families

Prototype B starts with a high-signal MVP of federal welfare-stack program families.

+37–58

Estimated federal additions

Batches A–H plus J expand the federal family count while preserving count discipline.

~92–113

Expanded federal range

Estimated federal-family range before adding state pass-through implementation records.

+306

Batch I state pass-through records

Six major federal programs across 50 states plus Washington, DC would create roughly 306 implementation records.

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Count discipline

How we count, and what these numbers do not claim.

Federal program family: A single federal authorization — a law, appropriation, or regulatory framework — that transfers public value to an eligible recipient class through a defined mechanism. SNAP is one program family. The 55 records here are 55 program families.
State implementation record: A state's specific implementation of a federal program family. Nevada SNAP is a state implementation record linked to the SNAP family. State implementations are not counted here — that is the next layer (see Future merge path).
Broad federal assistance listing: Catalogs such as SAM.gov Assistance Listings inventory ~2,400+ federal CFDA programs, many of which are administrative, institutional, or non-household-direct. The 55-program MVP intentionally narrows to high-signal taxpayer-paid welfare-stack programs.

Do not overclaim. This index does not catalog every federal grant. It does not claim 50× counts by multiplying through states. It does not equate "program count" with "spending" or "households served." Each count is one federal program family.

Future merge path

How Prototype B will compose with state-layer prototypes to estimate household support value.

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Federal Program Family
e.g. SNAP — one federal authorization, one mechanism, one source URL.
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State Implementation
e.g. Nevada SNAP — state agency, EBT issuance schedule, eligibility engine.
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State Supplement / Waiver / Admin Layer
e.g. state-funded TANF top-ups, 1115 waivers, Medicaid expansion status, state-level supplements (SSP, state EITC).
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Estimated Household Support Value
A defensible per-household estimate composed from federal + state layers. The state BETA prototype handles this estimation; Prototype B feeds it the federal floor.

10 expansion batches

Roadmap for growing the index beyond the 55-program MVP. Each batch defines inclusion criteria, approximate count, and example programs.

The 55-program MVP, by batch

How the initial 55 federal program families distribute across the 16 MVP batches.