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MARCH2014

FEATURES

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Contents 

FINANCIAL OPERATIONS 

 

PROFILE OF THE ECONOMY 

Analysis.—Summary of Economic Indicators ....................................................................................................................... 3

FEDERAL FISCAL OPERATIONS 

Introduction.—Federal Fiscal Operations ............................................................................................................................ 10 

Analysis.—Budget Results and Financing of the U.S. Government and First-Quarter Receipts by Source ....................... 11 

FFO-A.—Chart: Monthly Receipts and Outlays ................................................................................................................ 13 

FFO-B.—Chart: Budget Receipts by Source ....................................................................................................................... 13 

FFO-1.—Summary of Fiscal Operations ............................................................................................................................. 14 

FFO-2.—On-Budget and Off-Budget Receipts by Source .................................................................................................. 15 

FFO-3.—On-Budget and Off-Budget Outlays by Agency .................................................................................................. 17 

FFO-4.—Summary of U.S. Government Receipts by Source and Outlays by Agency ....................................................... 19

ACCOUNT OF THE U.S. TREASURY 

Introduction.— Source and Availability of the Balance in the Account of the U.S. Treasury ............................................ 20 

UST-1.—Elements of Change in Federal Reserve and Tax and Loan Note Account Balances .......................................... 20

FEDERAL DEBT 

Introduction.—Federal Debt ................................................................................................................................................ 22 

FD-1.—Summary of Federal Debt ...................................................................................................................................... 23 

FD-2.—Debt Held by the Public ......................................................................................................................................... 24 

FD-3.—Government Account Series ................................................................................................................................... 25 

FD-4.—Interest-Bearing Securities Issued by Government Agencies ................................................................................. 26 

FD-5.—Maturity Distribution and Average Length of Marketable Interest-Bearing Public Debt Held by 

 Private Investors .................................................................................................................................................... 27 

FD-6.—Debt Subject to Statutory Limit .............................................................................................................................. 28 

FD-7.—Treasury Holdings of Securities Issued by Government Corporations and Other Agencies .................................. 29

BUREAU OF THE FISCAL SERVICE OPERATIONS 

Introduction.—Bureau of the Fiscal Service Operations ..................................................................................................... 31 

TREASURY FINANCING ................................................................................................................................................. 31 

PDO-1.—Offerings of Regular Weekly Treasury Bills ....................................................................................................... 38 

PDO-2.—Offerings of Marketable Securities Other than Regular Weekly Treasury Bills ................................................. 39 

OWNERSHIP OF FEDERAL SECURITIES 

Introduction.—Ownership of Federal Securities ................................................................................................................. 40 

OFS-1.—Distribution of Federal Securities by Class of Investors and Type of Issues ....................................................... 41 

OFS-2.—Estimated Ownership of U.S. Treasury Securities ............................................................................................... 42

U.S. CURRENCY AND COIN OUTSTANDING AND IN CIRCULATION

Introduction.—U.S. Currency and Coin Outstanding and in Circulation ............................................................................ 43 

USCC-1.—Amounts Outstanding and in Circulation; Currency, Coins .............................................................................. 43 

USCC-2.—Amounts Outstanding and in Circulation; by Denomination, Per Capita Comparative Totals ......................... 44
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Contents 

INTERNATIONAL STATISTICS 

FOREIGN CURRENCY POSITIONS 

Introduction.—Foreign Currency Positions ......................................................................................................................... 47 

SECTION I.—Canadian Dollar Positions 

FCP-I-1.—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants .................................................................................................... 48 

FCP-I-2.—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants .................................................................................................. 49 

FCP-I-3.—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants ................................................................................................. 49 

SECTION II.—Japanese Yen Positions 

FCP-II-1.—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants................................................................................................... 50 

FCP-II-2.—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants ................................................................................................. 51 

FCP-II-3.—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants ................................................................................................ 51 

SECTION III.—Swiss Franc Positions 

FCP-III-1.—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants ................................................................................................. 52 

FCP-III-2.—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants ................................................................................................ 53 

FCP-III-3.—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants ............................................................................................... 53 

SECTION IV.—Sterling Positions 

FCP-IV-1.—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants ................................................................................................. 54 

FCP-IV-2.—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants ................................................................................................ 55 

FCP-IV-3.—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants ............................................................................................... 55 

SECTION V.—U.S. Dollar Positions 

FCP-V-1.—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants .................................................................................................. 56 

FCP-V-2.—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants ................................................................................................. 57 

FCP-V-3.—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants ................................................................................................ 57 

SECTION VI.—Euro Positions 

FCP-VI-1.—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants ................................................................................................. 58 

FCP-VI-2.—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants ................................................................................................ 59 

FCP-VI-3.—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants ............................................................................................... 59 

EXCHANGE STABILIZATION FUND 

Introduction.—Exchange Stabilization Fund ....................................................................................................................... 60 

ESF-1.—Balance Sheet ....................................................................................................................................................... 60 

ESF-2.—Income and Expense ............................................................................................................................................. 61

SPECIAL REPORTS 

FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, EXCERPT 

Introduction.—Financial Report Excerpt ............................................................................................................................. 65 

Financial Report Excerpt ..................................................................................................................................................... 66 

TRUST FUNDS 

Introduction.—Airport and Airway Trust Fund ................................................................................................................... 83 

TF-1.—Airport and Airway Trust Fund .............................................................................................................................. 84 

Introduction.—Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund ......................................................... 85 

TF-2.—Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund ..................................................................... 86 

Introduction.—Black Lung Disability Trust Fund ............................................................................................................... 87 
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TF-3.—Black Lung Disability Trust Fund .......................................................................................................................... 88 

Introduction.—Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund ................................................................................................................. 89 

TF-4.—Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund ............................................................................................................................. 89 

Introduction.—Hazardous Substance Superfund ................................................................................................................. 91 

TF-5.—Hazardous Substance Superfund ............................................................................................................................. 91 

Introduction.—Highway Trust Fund ................................................................................................................................... 93 

TF-6.—Highway Trust Fund ............................................................................................................................................... 94 

Introduction.—Highway Trust Fund ................................................................................................................................... 96 

TF-6A.—Highway Trust Fund; Highway Account, Mass Transit Account ........................................................................ 96 

Introduction.—Inland Waterways Trust Fund ..................................................................................................................... 97 

TF-7.—Inland Waterways Trust Fund ................................................................................................................................. 97 

Introduction.—Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund ......................................................................................... 98 

TF-8.—Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund .................................................................................................... 98 

Introduction.—Nuclear Waste Fund .................................................................................................................................... 99 

TF-9.—Nuclear Waste Fund ................................................................................................................................................ 99 

TF-A.—Chart: Major Trust Funds, Interest on Investments .............................................................................................. 100 

TF-B.—Chart: Major Trust Funds, Receipts and Expenses .............................................................................................. 100 

Introduction.—Reforestation Trust Fund ........................................................................................................................... 101 

TF-10.—Reforestation Trust Fund .................................................................................................................................... 101 

Introduction.— Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Safety Trust Fund ............................................................................ 102 

TF-11.—Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Safety Trust Fund ....................................................................................... 103 

Introduction.—Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund .................................................................................................................... 104 

TF-12.—Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund ............................................................................................................................. 105 

Introduction.—Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund ................................................................................................ 106 

TF-13.—Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund .......................................................................................................... 106 

Introduction.—Wool Research, Development, and Promotion Trust Fund ....................................................................... 107 

TF-14.—Wool Research, Development, and Promotion Trust Fund................................................................................. 107 

Introduction.— Agriculture Disaster Relief Trust Fund .................................................................................................... 108 

TF-15.—Agriculture Disaster Relief Trust Fund ............................................................................................................... 108

 

RESEARCH PAPER SERIES ........................................................................................................................................... 110

GLOSSARY ...................................................................................................................................................................... 112

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NOTES: Definitions for words shown in italics can be found in the glossary; Figures may not add to totals because of 

rounding; p = Preliminary; n.a. = Not available; r = Revised. 
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Nonquarterly Tables and Reports 

For the convenience of the “Treasury Bulletin” user, nonquarterly tables and reports 

are listed below along with the issues in which they appear. 

Issues 

March June Sept. Dec. 

Federal Fiscal Operations 

 

FFO-5.—Internal Revenue Receipts by State ........................................................... √

FFO-6.—Customs and Border Protection Collection of Duties, Taxes and Fees 

by Districts and Ports ............................................................................... √

 

Special Reports 

 

Financial Report of the United States Government excerpt ...................................... √ 

Trust Fund Reports: 

Agriculture Disaster Relief Trust Fund ............................................................. √ 

Airport and Airway Trust Fund ........................................................................ √ 

Black Lung Disability Trust Fund .................................................................... √ 

Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund ....................................................................... √ 

Hazardous Substance Superfund ....................................................................... √ 

Highway Trust Fund ......................................................................................... √ 

Inland Waterways Trust Fund ........................................................................... √ 

Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund .............................................. √ 

Nuclear Waste Fund .......................................................................................... √ 

Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund ........................................................................... √ 

Reforestation Trust Fund .................................................................................. √ 

Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund ................................................ √ 

Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund ............... √ 

Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund ........................................................ √ 

Wool Research, Development, and Promotion Trust Fund ............................... √ 

 
OPERATIONS

Profile of the Economy

Federal Fiscal Operations

Account of the U.S. Treasury

Federal Debt

Public Debt Operations

Ownership of Federal Securities

U.S. Currency and Coin Outstanding

and in Circulation
March 2014 

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Profile of the Economy 

[Source: Office of Macroeconomic Analysis] 

As of February 11, 2014 

Introduction 

The pace of real gross domestic product (GDP) growth 

decelerated in the fourth quarter, after a strong pace of 

growth in the third quarter. A slower pace of private 

inventory accumulation in particular contributed to the 

deceleration, along with declines in federal government 

spending and residential investment as well as slower 

growth in business fixed investment. These factors were 

partially offset by faster growth in consumer spending and 

exports. Job creation continued at a moderate and somewhat 

faster pace, on average, during the fourth quarter of 2013, 

and also picked up slightly in January 2014. The economy 

has added 8.5 million private sector jobs since job growth 

resumed in early 2010, and the unemployment rate has 

declined 3.4 percentage points from its peak level of 10 

percent in October 2009, but remained elevated at 6.6 

percent as of January 2014. Conditions in the housing sector 

continued to improve, despite a net increase in mortgage 

interest rates. 

Although the Administration has taken a number of steps 

in recent years to promote stronger economic growth in the 

near-term, it has also pursued deficit reduction measures in 

the interests of the nation’s longer-term growth. More than 

$2.7 trillion in deficit reduction measures have been enacted 

over the past 2-1⁄2 years, including the January 2013 

enactment of the American Taxpayer Relief Act (ATRA), 

which will reduce the deficit by an estimated $737 billion 

over the next 10 years. Since fiscal year 2009, the federal 

budget deficit has fallen from a peak of 9.8 percent of GDP 

to 4.1 percent in fiscal year 2013. 

At its most recent meeting in January 2014, the Federal 

Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) 

announced it would maintain the target range for the federal 

funds rate as well as existing programs for reinvestment of 

principal payments and roll-overs of maturing Treasuries at 

auction. However, it also announced a further tapering of 

asset purchases starting in February, beyond the amounts 

announced at the December 2013 meeting (that were 

implemented in January). 

Economic Growth 

 Since the current expansion began in mid-2009, the 

economy has grown by about 11 percent and, as of the 

fourth quarter of 2013, real GDP was 6.5 percent above its 

level at the end of 2007, when the recession began. 

According to the advance estimate, real GDP rose 3.2 

percent at an annual rate during the fourth quarter of 2013, 

after increasing by 4.1 percent in the third quarter of this 

year. The deceleration in growth in the latest quarter largely 

reflected a slower pace of inventory investment relative to a 

large build in the third quarter. Federal government outlays 

fell sharply, as did residential investment, while 

nonresidential investment grew more slowly. These factors 

were partly offset by faster growth in consumer spending 

and a larger contribution from net exports. Consensus 

forecasts currently put real GDP growth in the first quarter 

of 2014 at a 2.2 percent annual rate. 

Private domestic final demand (consumption plus private 

fixed investment, considered a better measure of underlying 

private demand because it subtracts out government 

spending, inventory movements, and net exports) grew at a 

2.9 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter, accelerating 

from the third quarter’s 2.7 percent pace. Real personal 

consumption expenditures—which account for about 70 

percent of GDP—rose at a 3.3 percent annual rate in the 

fourth quarter, faster than the 2.0 percent rise in the third 

quarter. Consumption added 2.3 percentage points to real 

GDP growth in the latest quarter. 

Residential investment—mostly residential homebuilding—declined 9.8 percent in the fourth quarter, 

decelerating sharply from the 10.3 percent pace in the third 

quarter. Residential activity shaved 0.3 percentage point 

from fourth-quarter real GDP growth. The fourth quarter 

decline was the first in 3 years; growth in residential 

investment had averaged just over 11 percent per quarter for 

the previous 12 consecutive quarters. Significantly, 

residential investment grew by nearly 13 percent in 2012, 

the strongest yearly increase since 1992. 

Noteworthy progress has been made in the housing 

market for the past 18 months, as captured by several 

measures. After reaching a 5-1⁄2 year high in November, 

single-family housing starts fell 7.0 percent in December 

2013 to 667,000 units at an annual rate, but were still 7.6 

percent above the level in December 2012. The level of 
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March 2014 

single-family starts has risen by almost 90 percent from a 

low of 353,000 in March 2009, but in December 2013, it 

remained about 63 percent below the January 2006 peak, 

and well below the 1.1 million unit average observed from 

1980 to 2004. Sales of new single-family homes have risen 

by 4.5 percent over the past year, reaching 414,000 at an 

annual rate in December 2013. Sales of existing singlefamily homes (94 percent of all home sales) fell 0.6 percent 

over the past year to 4.87 million at an annual rate in 

December 2013. The inventory of homes available for sale 

has trended lower. Relative to sales, there was a 5.0-month 

supply of new homes on the market in December, near its 

long-run average. The inventory of existing single-family 

homes has also fallen noticeably, relative to sales. In 

December, it stood at a 4.6-month supply, down 

considerably from a peak of 12.1 months in June 2010. 

House price measures continue to rise, reflecting a pick-up 

in demand and tight inventories in some markets. The FHFA 

purchase-only house price index rose 0.1 percent in 

November to its highest level in over 5 years, and was up 7.6 

percent over the past year. This was the 10th consecutive 

year-over-year gain of more than 7 percent; price increases 

in recent months have been the strongest since 2006. In 

November 2013, the Standard & Poor’s (S&P)/Case-Shiller 

composite 20-city home price index increased 0.9 percent to 

its highest level since July 2008, and rose 13.8 percent yearover-year, the largest year-over-year gain since January 

2006. Reflecting optimism in the housing market, the 

February 2014 Zillow Home Price Expectations Survey 

predicted that on average, home prices will rise by 4.5 

percent through the fourth quarter of 2014. 

Nonresidential fixed investment—about 12 percent of 

GDP—grew 3.8 percent (annual rate) in the fourth quarter of 

2013, slowing from the 4.8 percent advance in the third 

quarter. The slowdown in business fixed investment 

primarily reflected a large swing in outlays for structures, 

which fell 1.2 percent in the fourth quarter after advancing 

13.4 percent in the third quarter. Growth in business 

spending on equipment accelerated, rising nearly 7 percent 

in the fourth quarter after edging up 0.2 percent in the third 

quarter. Investment in intellectual property products-a new 

category that includes outlays for software, research and 

development, and entertainment, literary and artistic 

originals-grew 3.2 percent in the fourth quarter, after a 5.8 

percent rise in the third quarter. Altogether, nonresidential 

fixed investment added 0.5 percentage point to real GDP 

growth in the fourth quarter of 2013, compared with a 0.6 

percentage point contribution in the third quarter. Inventory 

accumulation made a smaller but positive contribution to 

growth in the fourth quarter, adding 0.4 percentage point to 

GDP growth, after making a 1.7 percentage point 

contribution in the third quarter. 

Exports account for about 13 percent of GDP, while 

imports (which are subtracted from total domestic spending 

to calculate GDP) account for about 17 percent. After 

contributing nearly 1 percentage point, on average, to 

quarterly GDP growth in 2007 through 2009, net exports 

subtracted 0.6 percentage point in 2010, and then added 0.1 

percentage point in 2011, 2012, and 2013. In the fourth 

quarter of 2013, the net export deficit narrowed as exports 

rose 11.4 percent, far exceeding the 0.9 percent increase in 

imports. Net exports added 1.3 percentage point to GDP 

growth in the fourth quarter, after adding 0.1 percentage 

point to growth in the third quarter. 

The current account balance (reflecting international 

trade in goods and services, investment income flows, and 

unilateral transfers) has been in deficit almost continuously 

since the early 1980s and, in 2006, reached a record $798 

billion, equivalent to 5.8 percent of GDP. After narrowing to 

$382 billion (2.6 percent of GDP) in 2009, the current 

account deficit widened again to $449 billion (3.0 percent of 

GDP) in 2010 and to $458 billion (2.9 percent of GDP) in 

2011. It narrowed in 2012, to $440 billion, or 2.7 percent of 

GDP. As of the third quarter of 2013, the current account 

deficit had narrowed further, to $379 billion, or 2.2 percent 

of GDP 

Government purchases—which account for close to 20 

percent of GDP—fell nearly 5 percent in the fourth quarter 

of 2013, swinging from a 0.4 percent increase in the third 

quarter of the year. Government outlays for consumption 

and investment have fallen in 13 of the past 17 quarters and, 

in the fourth quarter of this year, subtracted 0.9 percentage 

point from GDP growth. Federal spending plunged 12.6 

percent in the fourth quarter after a 1.5 percent decline in the 

third quarter. After 10 straight quarterly declines in State and 

local government spending—the longest period of falling 

expenditures at this level of government in postwar 

history—State and local spending grew 0.6 percent in the 

second quarter of 2012, but fell again in the subsequent three 

quarters. However, State and local spending has grown in 

each of the most recent three quarters, including a 0.5 

percent increase in the fourth quarter, after a 1.7 percent rise 

in the third quarter. This was the first three consecutive 

quarters of positive contribution at the State and local 

government level since 2009. 

Labor Markets 

During the recession (from December 2007 through June 

2009), the economy lost 7.7 million private-sector jobs. Job 

losses continued even after the recovery began but, in 

February 2010, nonfarm payrolls began to rise again. Since 

then, through January 2014, total nonfarm payroll 

employment has grown by about 7.8 million. In the private 

sector, employment has increased by 8.5 million during the 

same period. 

Job losses during the recession were spread broadly 

across most sectors but, with the resumption of job growth, 

all of these sectors have added jobs. Since the labor market 

recovery began in early 2010, payrolls in professional and 

business services have risen by about 2.3 million, and the 

leisure and hospitality industries’ employment has increased 

by just over 1.5 million through January 2014. Although 
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March 2014 

growth in manufacturing payrolls has fluctuated in the last 

several months, payrolls in this sector have expanded by 

622,000 since early 2010. A few sectors continued to add 

jobs throughout the recession and still continue to hire new 

workers: since early 2010, the health care and social 

assistance sector has created an additional 1.2 million jobs. 

The government sector also added workers to payrolls 

during the recession, but the State and local sectors have 

since cut employment considerably, and after a brief 

reversal, losses have resumed in recent months. From 

February 2010 through January 2014, the government 

sector’s job losses totaled 667,000. Over that same period, 

State and local job losses numbered 531,000, including 

443,000 local government jobs (of which 306,000 were in 

local education). 

The unemployment rate peaked at 10.0 percent in 

October 2009—a 26-year high—and 5.6 percentage points 

above the May 2007 low of 4.4 percent. After October 2009, 

the unemployment rate trended lower, reaching 6.6 percent 

in January 2014 – its lowest level since October 2008. 

Broader measures of unemployment have also declined. One 

such measure, that includes workers who are underemployed 

and those who are only marginally attached to the labor 

force (the U-6 unemployment rate), reached a record high of 

17.1 percent in late 2009 (series dates from 1994)—more 

than double the low of 7.9 percent reached in December 

2006. This measure stood at 12.7 percent in January 2014. 

The percentage of the unemployed who have been out of 

work for 27 weeks or more peaked at an all-time high of 

45.3 percent in April 2010. This measure dropped to 35.8 

percent in January 2014, the lowest since July 2009. 

Inflation 

Headline inflation has generally leveled off over the past 

2 years, while core inflation (excluding food and energy) has 

moderated. Headline consumer prices rose 1.5 percent over 

the 12 months ending in December 2013, below the 1.7 

percent rise over the year through December 2012. Energy 

prices rose 0.5 percent in the year through December, 

matching the year-earlier gain. Food prices rose 1.1 percent 

over the year through December 2013, less than the 1.8 

percent increase in the year through December 2012. On a 

12-month basis, core consumer prices (excluding food and 

energy) rose 1.7 percent through December 2013, less than 

the 1.9 percent advance in the year through December 2012 

Oil and gasoline prices have fluctuated in a stable range 

over the past year. The front-month futures price of West 

Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil averaged $94.86 per 

barrel in January 2014, only three cents above the January 

2013 average. The retail price of regular gasoline averaged 

$3.31 per gallon in January 2014, down one cent from the 

year-earlier average. Prices for crude oil and gasoline 

remained below the all-time highs reached in July 2008, of 

$147 per barrel and $4.11 per gallon, respectively. 
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March 2014 

Federal Budget and Debt 

The federal budget deficit declined to $680 billion (4.1 

percent of GDP) in fiscal year 2013, sharply dropping 

$1.089 trillion (6.8 percent of GDP) in fiscal year 2012. The 

deficit has declined by nearly 6 percentage points as a share 

of the economy from a peak of 9.8 percent in fiscal year 

2009, making the past 4 years the most rapid period of fiscal 

consolidation that the United States has experienced since 

the year following the end of World War II. The debt-toGDP ratio was 72.1 percent in fiscal year 2013, up from 70.1 

percent in fiscal year 2012. 

On March 1, 2013, $1.2 trillion in mandated public 

spending cuts, collectively known as the sequester, took 

effect. In April 2013, the Administration released its fiscal 

year 2014 budget proposal, which would replace the 

sequester with a deficit reduction package worth $1.8 trillion 

over the next 10 years. Together with the $2.5 trillion in 

deficit reduction measures enacted in the previous 2 years, 

these measures would bring the total amount of deficit 

reduction over 10 years to $4.3 trillion. According to the 

Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) analysis of the 

President’s fiscal year 2014 budget (released in May 2013), 

the deficit is projected to fall to about 2.0 percent of GDP by 

2017, putting Federal debt on a declining path as a share of 

the economy. The budget is projected to post a primary 

surplus (the budget deficit net of interest payments) starting 

in fiscal year 2017. Primary surpluses will average 0.5 

percent of GDP over the last five years of the budget 

window (2009-2023). The debt-to-GDP ratio is projected to 

peak at around 77 percent of GDP in fiscal year 2014 and 

then begin to decline, falling to 69.8 percent in fiscal year 

2023. In late January 2014, the Administration announced 

that the fiscal year 2015 budget will be released in early 

March. 

Economic Policy 

Key fiscal and monetary policy actions taken over the 

past few years have aided the recovery. On the fiscal policy 

side, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) 

authorized the Federal Government to spend $787 billion to 

stimulate domestic demand, an amount that was increased to 

$840 billion to be consistent with the President’s Fiscal Year 

2012 Budget. This spending provided an important boost to 

economic activity, but the Administration also proposed and 

implemented a variety of additional programs to maintain 

the recovery’s momentum. These included an extension and 

expansion of the first-time home buyer tax credit, a new 

Small Business Jobs and Wages Tax Credit, and additional 

financial support for State and local Governments. In 

December 2010, the 2010 Tax Relief Act authorized a 2 

percentage point payroll tax cut, extensions of 

unemployment benefits and refundable tax credits, and a 2-

year extension of the 2001 tax cuts. In late December 2011, 

the 2 percentage point payroll tax cut and extended 

unemployment benefits included in the 2010 tax legislation 

were each extended for 2 additional months. In late February 

2012, the extension of the payroll tax cut and extended 

unemployment benefits for the remainder of 2012 were 

signed into law. 

In January 2013, the ATRA was signed into law. The 

ATRA permanently extended tax cuts for the vast majority 

of Americans and small businesses, extended Emergency 

Unemployment benefits for an additional year, extended a 

variety of other tax cuts and credits, postponed the sequester, 

originally scheduled to take effect on January 1, until March 

1, 2013, and raised tax rates for high-income earners 

(representing about 2 percent of taxpayers). Altogether, the 

ATRA is projected to reduce the deficit by $737 billion over 

the next decade. 

Partly in response to rising financial market stress, as 

well as to signs of more slowing in the broader economy, the 

Federal Reserve began the current cycle of monetary policy 

easing in September 2007. By late 2008, the FOMC had 

lowered the federal funds target interest rate dramatically, 

reducing it to a historically low target range of 0 percent to 

0.25 percent at the December 2008 FOMC meeting. 

Beginning with the August 2011 meeting, the FOMC also 

began identifying an expected timeframe for maintaining the 

Federal funds rate target at “exceptionally low levels.” 

Initially put at mid-2013, the timeframe was extended to “at 

least late 2014” at the January 2012 FOMC meeting, and 

then to “at least mid-2015” at the September 2012 meeting, a 

timeframe for the target range which was maintained at the 

October 2012 meeting. At the December 2012 meeting, 

however, the FOMC implemented numerical thresholds for 

its policy rate guidance. Specifically, the FOMC indicated 

that it would maintain the target range as long as the 

unemployment rate remained above 6.5 percent, inflation 

between 1 and 2 years ahead is projected to be no more than 

0.5 percentage point above the FOMC’s 2 percent longer-run 
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March 2014 

goal, and long-term inflation expectations remain well 

anchored. At the December 2013 meeting, the FOMC 

commented on the role of the numerical thresholds in 

formulating monetary policy, indicating that, “it will likely 

be appropriate to maintain the current target range funds rate 

well past the time that the unemployment rate declines 

below 6-1⁄2 percent, especially if projected inflation 

continues to run below the Committee’s longer run goal.” At 

the most recent FOMC meeting in January 2014, the 

Committee reiterated this view. 

The Federal Reserve significantly expanded its tools to 

increase liquidity in credit markets, and eased lending terms 

to sectors in need of liquidity, including a variety of facilities 

and funds directed at specific financial markets. As of June 

30, 2010, all of these special facilities had expired. At the 

August 2010 FOMC meeting, the Federal Reserve 

announced it would maintain its holdings of securities at 

current levels by reinvesting principal payments from 

agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in 

longer-term Treasury securities, and continue rolling over 

the Federal Reserve’s holdings of Treasury securities as they 

mature. At the end of June 2011, the FOMC completed 

purchases of $600 billion of longer-term Treasury securities. 

At the September 2011 meeting, the FOMC announced it 

would extend the average maturity of its holdings (a socalled “twist” operation) by purchasing $400 billion of 

longer-term (6 to 30 years) Treasury securities and selling an 

equal amount of shorter-term (3 years or less) Treasury 

securities, all by the end of June 2012. The Committee also 

announced the reinvestment of principal payments from its 

holdings of agency debt and agency mortgage-backed 

securities into the latter securities. At the June 2012 meeting, 

the FOMC extended and expanded its program to extend the 

average maturity of its holdings (the so-called “twist” 

operation announced in September 2011). At the September 

2012 meeting, the FOMC announced it would increase 

monetary accommodation through $40 billion per month in 

additional purchases of mortgage-backed securities through 

the end of the year. The FOMC announced additional 

monetary accommodation at the December 2012 meeting, 

including the completion of short-term securities sales 

(which drain liquidity) and the continuation of purchases of 

long-term Treasury securities at a rate of $45 billion per 

month beyond the end of 2012. The FOMC also indicated 

that monthly purchases of mortgage-backed securities at a 

pace of $40 billion per month would continue, and affirmed 

its existing policy of reinvesting principal payments. At the 

December 2013 meeting, the FOMC announced a tapering 

of long-term Treasury security purchases and mortgagebacked securities purchases, of $5 billion each, beginning in 

January 2014. The tapering brought monthly purchases to 

$40 billion and $35 billion, respectively. At its most recent 

meeting in January 2014, the Committee announced a 

further tapering of asset purchases to begin in February 

2014, of $5 billion each. The latest tapering, to begin in 

February 2014, brings monthly purchases to $35 billion and 

$30 billion, respectively. 

Financial Markets 

Financial markets have largely recovered from the 

unprecedented strains experienced in the fall of 2008, but 

came under renewed pressure in 2011, as investors 

expressed concerns about slowing economic growth in the 

United States as well as globally, and about strains in debt 

markets in Europe. The concerns persisting in 2012 and 

2013, expanded to include ongoing uncertainty about the. 

United States fiscal situation and debt ceiling brinksmanship. While certain domestic headwinds appear to have 

receded, and concerns have eased about the sovereign debt 

crisis in Europe, prospects for global growth have become 

more tentative. Overall, though, financial conditions in 

general continue to improve. Credit flows have increased 

substantially since early 2009, and in the fourth quarter of 

2013, banks generally continued to ease standards and terms 

across several lending categories, and demand for most loans 

was higher, with the exception of residential mortgages. 

After some deterioration in the summer of 2011, measures of 

risk tolerance and volatility have all improved. 

After plunging 38.5 percent in 2008, the sharpest loss 

since 1931 (when an earlier version of the index, containing 

only 90 stocks, dropped 47 percent), the S&P 500 index rose 

23.5 percent in 2009 and 12.8 percent in 2010. Although the 

index was flat in 2011, it advanced 13.4 percent in 2012 and 

last year gained 29.6 percent, ending the year at a new 

record high. However, thus far in 2014, the index has 

declined by nearly 4 percent. The S&P Stock Market 

Volatility Index (VIX), often used as a measure of financial 

market uncertainty, surged to an all-time high of 80 in late 

October 2008, after hovering in a range of 20 to 30 for most 

of that year. The VIX retreated fairly steadily during 2009, 

ending that year at about 20. Since then, the VIX has 

fluctuated more widely, resurging to 46 in mid-May 2010 

and to that level again in early October 2011. Since the most 

recent peak, this index has generally trended lower, and 

stood at about 15.3 as of early February 2014. 

A variety of factors have buffeted long-term Treasury 

interest rates, including flight-to-quality flows in response to 

a variety of specific risk events, as well as supply concerns 

related to funding of the government’s debt, concern about 

the need for fiscal retrenchment, the downgrade of U.S. 

Treasury debt by rating agency S&P in August 2011, 

ongoing concerns about European debt markets and debt 

downgrades in some European countries, and more recently, 

concerns about fiscal drag in the United States and slowing 

global growth. The yield on the 10-year note traded above 

the 3 percent level during the first half of 2011, but 

thereafter trended lower, reaching a record low of 1.43 

percent in late July 2012. The yield subsequently rose and 

fluctuated around the 2 percent mark in early 2013, then fell 

to about 1.7 percent in early May 2013. Thereafter, the yield 
8 PROFILE OF THE ECONOMY 

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trended much higher, surpassing the 3 percent level in late 

2013. However, thus far in 2014, the yield has declined 

about 30 basis points to 2.7 percent as of early February. The 

3-month Treasury bill yield fluctuated in a range from about 

0.05 percent to 0.17 percent for much of 2011 but, between 

August 2011 and January 2012, the yield fluctuated in a 

range of 0.0 percent to 0.02 percent. Since then, the yield has 

fluctuated around 0.1 percent as of early February 2014. The 

2- to 10-year Treasury yield spread, one measure of the 

steepness of the yield curve, widened to 291 basis points in 

early February 2011, then trended noticeably lower, reaching 

132 basis points in mid-November 2012. The spread 

widened again after that, reaching about 270 basis points in 

November 2013, but since then has narrowed, reaching 240 

basis points as of early February 2014. 

Key interest rates on private securities, which spiked in 

response to financial market turbulence in late 2008, have 

since retraced as conditions have stabilized. The spread 

between the 3-month London Inter-bank Offered Rate 

(LIBOR) and the 3-month Treasury bill rate (the TED 

spread, a measure of inter-bank liquidity and credit risk) rose 

to an all-time high of nearly 460 basis points in early 

October 2008. However, improvements in short-term credit 

availability have led to a narrowing of this spread. Through 

early August 2011, the TED spread fluctuated in a range 

from 14 to 25 basis points. Subsequently, this spread 

widened, reaching almost 60 basis points earlier in 2013, 

before narrowing since then to 16 basis points in early 

February 2014. The spread between the Baa corporate bond 

yield and the 10-year Treasury yield peaked at nearly 620 

basis points in December 2008. After narrowing on trend in 

the intervening years, and trading below 300 basis points for 

much of 2011, the spread widened above that level again in 

early August 2011 to about 340 basis points. The spread 

remained above 300 basis points for much of 2012, but 

dropped below that level late in the year, where it has 

remained since then. This spread stood at 242 basis points as 

of early February 2014, still very high by historical 

standards. 

Rates for conforming mortgages have trended lower in 

recent years, as have rates for jumbo mortgages, although 

over the summer and fall of 2013, mortgage rates spiked. 

The interest rate for a 30-year conforming fixed-rate 

mortgage fell to a record low of 3.31 percent in November 

2012; starting in May 2013, however, it started moving 

sharply higher. From early May through mid-September 

2013, the rate jumped up by nearly 135 basis points. Since 

then, the rate has trended lower, and stood at 4.3 percent as 

of early February 2014. 

Foreign Exchange Rates 

The value of the U.S. dollar compared with the 

currencies of seven major trading partners (the euro area 

countries, Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, 

Sweden, and Switzerland) appreciated to a peak level in 

February 2002, and then depreciated significantly over the 

next several years. From its peak in February 2002, to the 

recent low reached in August 2011, the exchange value of 

the dollar compared to an index of these currencies fell by 

about 38.5 percent. Although the dollar’s exchange value 

against this index remains well below the February 2002 

peak, it has appreciated between August 2011 and January 

2014 by about 12 percent. Over the longer timeframe, the 

dollar depreciated by about 42 percent against the yen and 

by 39 percent against the euro. In the period since August 

2011 through January 2014, the dollar has appreciated by 
PROFILE OF THE ECONOMY 9 

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nearly 35 percent against the yen, but has depreciated by 5 

percent against the euro. Against an index of currencies of 

19 other important trading partners (including China, India, 

and Mexico), the dollar depreciated 10.2 percent over the 

longer timeframe, and has appreciated by about 5.5 percent 

against this basket between August 2011 and January 2014.
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INTRODUCTION: Federal Fiscal Operations 

Budget authority usually takes the form of appropriations 

that allow obligations to be incurred and payments to be 

made. Reappropriations are Congressional actions that 

extend the availability of unobligated amounts that have 

expired or would otherwise expire. These are counted as 

new budget authority in the fiscal year of the legislation in 

which the reappropriation act is included, regardless of when 

the amounts were originally appropriated or when they 

would otherwise lapse. 

Obligations generally are liquidated by the issuance of 

checks or the disbursement of cash—outlays. Obligations 

may also be liquidated (and outlays recorded) by the accrual 

of interest on public issues of Treasury debt securities 

(including an increase in redemption value of bonds 

outstanding); or by the issuance of bonds, debentures, notes, 

monetary credits, or electronic payments. 

Refunds of collections generally are treated as reductions 

of collections, whereas payments for earned-income tax 

credits in excess of tax liabilities are treated as outlays. 

Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of 

obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year. 

Outlays, therefore, flow in part from unexpended balances of 

prior year budget authority and from budget authority 

provided for the year in which the money is spent. Total 

outlays include both budget and off-budget outlays and are 

stated net of offsetting collections. 

Receipts are reported in the tables as either budget 

receipts or offsetting collections. They are collections from 

the public, excluding receipts offset against outlays. These, 

also called governmental receipts, consist mainly of tax 

receipts (including social insurance taxes), receipts from 

court fines, certain licenses, and deposits of earnings by the 

Federal Reserve system. Refunds of receipts are treated as 

deductions from gross receipts. Total Government receipts 

are compared with total outlays in calculating the budget 

surplus or deficit. 

Offsetting collections from other Government accounts 

or the public are of a business-type or market-oriented 

nature. They are classified as either collections credited to 

appropriations or fund accounts, or offsetting receipts (i.e., 

amounts deposited in receipt accounts). The former normally 

can be used without an appropriation act by Congress. These 

occur in two instances: (1) when authorized by law, amounts 

collected for materials or services are treated as 

reimbursements to appropriations. For accounting purposes, 

earned reimbursements are also known as revenues. These 

offsetting collections are netted against gross outlays in 

determining net outlays from such appropriations; and (2) in 

the three types of revolving funds (public enterprise, 

intragovernmental, and trust); offsetting collections are 

netted against spending, and outlays are reported as the net 

amount. 

Offsetting receipts in receipt accounts cannot be used 

without appropriation. They are subdivided into three 

categories: (1) proprietary receipts, or collections from the 

public, offset against outlays by agency and by function; (2) 

intragovernmental transactions, or payments into receipt 

accounts from governmental appropriation or fund accounts. 

They finance operations within and between Government 

agencies and are credited with collections from other 

Government accounts; and (3) offsetting governmental 

receipts that include foreign cash contributions. 

Intrabudgetary transactions are subdivided into three 

categories: (1) interfund transactions—payments are from 

one fund group (either Federal funds or trust funds) to a 

receipt account in the other fund group; (2) Federal intrafund 

transactions—payments and receipts both occur within the 

Federal fund group; and (3) trust intrafund transactions—

payments and receipts both occur within the trust fund 

group. 

Offsetting receipts are generally deducted from budget 

authority and outlays by function, subfunction, or agency. 

There are four types of receipts, however, that are deducted 

from budget totals as undistributed offsetting receipts. They 

are: (1) agencies’ payments (including payments by offbudget Federal entities) as employers into employees’ 

retirement funds; (2) interest received by trust funds; (3) 

rents and royalties on the Outer Continental Shelf lands; and 

(4) other interest (i.e., that collected on Outer Continental 

Shelf money in deposit funds when such money is 

transferred into the budget). 

The Government has used the unified budget concept set 

forth in the “Report of the President’s Commission on 

Budget Concepts” as a foundation for its budgetary analysis 

and presentation since 1969. The concept calls for the 

budget to include all of the Government’s fiscal transactions 

with the public. Since 1971, however, various laws have 

been enacted removing several Federal entities from (or 

creating them outside of) the budget. Other laws have moved 

certain off-budget Federal entities onto the budget. Under 

current law, the off-budget Federal entities consist of the two 

Social Security trust funds, Federal Old-Age and Survivors 

Insurance and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, 

and the Postal Service. 

Although an off-budget Federal entity’s receipts, outlays, 

and surplus or deficit ordinarily are not subject to targets set 

by the Congressional resolution, the Balanced Budget and 

Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 [commonly known 

as the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act as amended by the 

Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (2 United States Code 900-
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922)] included off-budget surplus or deficit in calculating 

deficit targets under that act and in calculating excess deficit. 

Partly for this reason, attention has focused on both on- and 

off-budget receipts, outlays and deficit of the Government. 

Tables FFO-1, FFO-2, and FFO-3 are published 

quarterly and cover 5 years of data, estimates for 2 years, 

detail for 13 months, and fiscal year-to-date data. They 

provide a summary of data relating to Federal fiscal 

operations reported by Federal entities and disbursing 

officers, and daily reports from the FRBs. They also detail 

accounting transactions affecting receipts and outlays of the 

Government and off-budget Federal entities and their related 

effect on assets and liabilities of the Government. Data are 

derived from the “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts 

and Outlays of the United States Government.” 

 Table FFO-1 summarizes the amount of total 

receipts, outlays, and surplus or deficit, as well as 

transactions in Federal securities, monetary assets, and 

balances in Treasury operating cash. 

 Table FFO-2 includes on- and off-budget receipts 

by source. Amounts represent income taxes, social insurance 

taxes, net contributions for other insurance and retirement, 

excise taxes, estate and gift taxes, customs duties, and net 

miscellaneous receipts. 

 Table FFO-3 details on- and off-budget outlays by 

agency. 

 Table FFO-4 summarizes on- and off-budget 

receipts by source and outlays by function as reported to 

each major fund group classification for the current fiscal 

year to date and prior fiscal year to date. 

 Table FFO-5 summarizes internal revenue receipts 

by states and by type of tax. Amounts reported are 

collections made in a fiscal year. They span several tax 

liability years because they consist of prepayments 

(estimated tax payments and taxes withheld by employers 

for individual income and Social Security taxes), payments 

made with tax returns and subsequent payments made after 

tax returns are due or are filed (that is, payments with 

delinquent returns or on delinquent accounts). 

Amounts are reported based on the primary filing 

address provided by each taxpayer or reporting entity. For 

multistate corporations, the address may reflect only the 

district where such a corporation reported its taxes from a 

principal office rather than other districts where income was 

earned or where individual income and Social Security taxes 

were withheld. In addition, an individual may reside in one 

district and work in another. 

 Table FFO-6 includes customs collection of duties, 

taxes, and fees by districts and ports.

Budget Results and Financing of the U.S. Government 

and First-Quarter Receipts by Source 

[Source: Office of Tax Analysis, Office of Tax Policy] 

First-Quarter Receipts 

The following capsule analysis of budget 

receipts, by source, for the first quarter of fiscal 

year 2014 supplements fiscal data reported in the 

December issue of the “Treasury Bulletin.” At the 

time of that issue’s release, not enough data were 

available to analyze adequately collections for the 

quarter. 

Individual income taxes—Individual income tax 

receipts, net of refunds, were $306.4 billion for the first 

quarter of fiscal year 2014. This is a decrease of $6.0 billion 

over the comparable prior year quarter. Withheld receipts 

decreased by $11.1 billion and non-withheld receipts 

increased by $4.3 billion during this period. Refunds 

decreased by $0.9 billion over the comparable fiscal year 

2013 quarter. There was a decrease of $6.4 billion in 

accounting adjustments between individual income tax 

receipts and the Social Security and Medicare trust funds 

over the comparable quarter in fiscal year 2013. 

Corporate income taxes—Net corporate income tax 

receipts were $69.3 billion for the first quarter of fiscal year 

2014. This is an increase of $6.8 billion compared to the 

prior year first quarter. The $6.8 billion change is comprised 

of an increase of $5.1 billion in estimated and final 

payments, and a decrease of $1.6 billion in corporate 

refunds. 

Employment taxes and contributions—Employment 

taxes and contributions receipts for the first quarter of fiscal 

year 2014 were $216.2 billion, an increase of $44.1 billion 

over the comparable prior year quarter. Receipts to the 

Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance, Federal Disability 

Insurance, and Federal Hospital Insurance trust funds 

changed by $30.8 billion, $5.2 billion, and $7.9 billion 

respectively. There was a -$2.0 billion accounting 

adjustment for prior years employment tax liabilities made in 

the first quarter of fiscal year 2014, while there was a -$8.4 

billion adjustment in the first quarter of fiscal year 2013. 

Unemployment insurance—Unemployment insurance 

receipts, net of refunds, for the first quarter of fiscal year 

2014 were $8.4 billion, an increase of $0.2 billion over the 

comparable quarter of fiscal year 2013. Net State taxes 

deposited in the U.S. Treasury increased by $0.2 billion to 

$7.8 billion. Net Federal Unemployment Tax Act taxes 

increased by $0.1 billion to $0.7 billion. 
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Budget Results and Financing of the U.S. Government 

and First-Quarter Receipts by Source, continued

Contributions for other insurance and retirement—

Contributions for other retirement were $0.8 billion for the 

first quarter of fiscal year 2014. This was a negligible 

change from the comparable quarter of fiscal year 2013. 

Excise taxes—Net excise tax receipts for the first 

quarter of fiscal year 2014 were $19.2 billion, a decrease of 

$0.9 billion over the comparable prior year quarter. Total 

excise tax refunds for the quarter were $0.5 billion, an 

increase of $0.1 billion over the comparable prior year 

quarter. 

Estate and gift taxes—Net estate and gift tax receipts 

were $5.3 billion for the first quarter of fiscal year 2014. 

These receipts represent an increase of $2.1 billion over the 

same quarter in fiscal year 2013. 

Customs duties—Customs duties net of refunds were 

$8.8 billion for the first quarter of fiscal year 2014. This is 

an increase of $0.8 billion over the comparable prior year 

quarter. 

Miscellaneous receipts—Net miscellaneous receipts 

for the first quarter of fiscal year 2014 were $30.1 billion, an 

increase of $2.1 billion over the comparable prior year 

quarter. This change is due in part to deposits of earnings by 

Federal Reserve banks increasing by $0.5 billion.

Total On- and Off-Budget Results and Financing of the U.S. Government 

[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government”] 

 First quarter 

 Oct. - Dec. 

Fiscal year 

2013 

Total on- and off-budget results: 

Total receipts ............................................................... 686,835 2,774,011

On-budget receipts .................................................. 519,036 2,100,705

Off-budget receipts .................................................. 167,800 673,274

Total outlays................................................................. 857,285 3,454,241

On-budget outlays.................................................... 662,041 2,820,440

Off-budget outlays.................................................... 195,245 633,815

Total surplus or deficit (-)............................................. -170,450 -680,229

On-budget surplus or deficit (-)................................ -143,007 -719,737

Off-budget surplus or deficit (-)................................ -27,445 39,460

Means of financing: 

Borrowing from the public ............................................ 69,016 702,019

Reduction of operating cash........................................ 46,472 -2,940

Other means ................................................................ 54,963 -18,803

Total on- and off-budget financing........................... 170,449 680,275

First-Quarter Net Budget Receipts by Source, Fiscal Year 2014 

[In billions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government”] 

Source Oct. Nov. Dec. 

Individual income taxes...................................................... 99.1 82.7 124.6

Corporate income taxes..................................................... 6.5 0.5 62.3

Employment and general retirement.................................. 67.6 72.8 75.8

Unemployment insurance .................................................. 3.3 4.6 0.5

Contributions for other insurance and retirement .............. 0.3 0.3 0.3

Excise taxes ....................................................................... 5.9 6.9 6.4

Estate and gift taxes .......................................................... 1.8 2.1 1.4

Customs duties .................................................................. 3.2 2.8 2.8

Miscellaneous receipts ....................................................... 11.3 9.7 9.1

Total budget receipts ..................................................... 198.9 182.5 283.2

Note.—Detail may not add to totals due to independent rounding. 
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TABLE FFO-1.—Summary of Fiscal Operations 

[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government”] 

Total on-budget and off-budget results 

Means of 

financing 

– net transactions 

Borrowing from 

the public– 

Federal securities 

Public debt 

securities 

(10) 

Fiscal year 

or month 

Total receipts 

 (1) 

 On-budget

 receipts 

 (2) 

 Off-budget 

 receipts 

 (3) 

Total 

outlays 

(4) 

On-budget 

outlays 

(5) 

Off-budget 

outlays 

(6) 

Total 

surplus or

deficit (-) 

(7) 

On-budget 

surplus or 

deficit (-) 

(8) 

Off-budget 

surplus or

deficit (-) 

(9) 

 

2009 ............................ 2,104,365 1,450,355 654,010 3,520,088 3,003,070 517,018 -1,415,722 -1,552,714 136,992 1,889,727

2010 ............................ 2,161,728 1,530,040 631,688 3,455,931 2,901,248 554,683 -1,294,204 -1,371,208 77,004 1,652,342

2011 ............................ 2,302,495 1,736,709 565,787 3,598,086 3,099,477 498,609 -1,295,591 -1,362,769 67,179 1,234,576

2012 ............................ 2,449,092 1,879,592 569,500 3,538,447 3,030,856 507,589 -1,089,353 -1,151,263 61,913 1,286,476

2013 ............................ 2,773,979 2,100,705 673,274 3,454,254 2,820,439 633,815 -680,276 -719,738 39,460 667,974 2014 - Est.................... 3,023,004 2,283,787 739,217 3,773,373 3,068,252 705,121 -750,369 -784,465 34,096 1,004,520 

 2012 - Dec................... 269,508 230,049 39,459 270,699 267,740 2,959 -1,191 -37,691 36,500 63,743

2013 - Jan ................... 272,225 207,810 64,415 269,342 212,018 57,324 2,883 -4,208 7,091 1,215

Feb .................. 122,815 67,807 55,008 326,354 260,700 65,653 -203,539 -192,894 -10,645 253,395

Mar .................. 186,018 120,570 65,448 292,548 226,200 66,348 -106,530 -105,630 -900 85,043

Apr................... 406,723 332,553 74,170 293,833 236,743 57,091 112,889 95,810 17,079 59,272

May.................. 197,182 139,762 57,420 335,914 269,499 66,415 -138,732 -129,737 -8,995 -90,096

June................. 286,627 220,392 66,235 170,126 150,562 19,564 116,501 69,830 46,672 -3,629

July .................. 200,030 146,265 53,765 297,627 237,755 59,872 -97,597 -91,491 -6,107 -3,474

Aug .................. 185,370 130,599 54,771 333,293 265,356 67,937 -147,923 -134,757 -13,166 254

Sept................. 301,435 242,172 59,264 226,366 158,930 67,436 75,070 83,241 -8,172 -2,266

Oct................... 198,927 148,871 50,056 290,520 226,427 64,093 -91,592 -77,555 -14,037 410,381

Nov .................. 182,453 128,657 53,796 317,679 250,867 66,813 -135,226 -122,210 -13,017 61,108

Dec .................. 283,221 228,231 54,990 230,001 212,435 17,566 53,220 15,796 37,424 134,373 

Fiscal year 2014 to date ... 664,601 505,759 158,842 838,200 689,729 148,472 -173,598 -183,969 10,370 605,862

Means of financing—net transactions, con.

Borrowing from the publicFederal securities, con. Cash and monetary assets (deduct) 

Other 

(18) 

Transactions 

not applied 

to year’s 

surplus or 

deficit 

(19) 

Total 

Financing 

(20) 

Fiscal year 

or month 

Agency 

securities 

(11) 

Investments 

 of Government 

accounts 

(12) 

Total 

10+11-12

(13) 

U.S. Treasury 

operating 

cash 

(14) 

Special 

drawing 

rights 

(15) 

Other 

(16) 

Reserve 

position on the 

U.S. quota in 

the IMF 

(deduct) 

 (17) 

 

2009 ...................................... 99 146,766 1,743,060 -96,343 45,528 1,674 8,719 -368,200 - 1,415,282

2010 ...................................... 771 179,044 1,474,069 34,567 -535 -538 -531 -147,277 -375 1,293,454

2011 ...................................... 1,014 125,742 1,109,849 -251,743 -1,535 6,011 9,719 -51,806 - 1,295,591

2012 ...................................... -589 133,641 1,152,249 27,356 -643 5,955 819 -29,408 - 1,089,353

2013 ...................................... 703 -33,340 702,019 2,939 -267 42 -3,658 -23,503 816 680,276 2014 - Est.............................. 962 131,799 873,683 -20,000 * * * -143,314 * 750,369 

 2012 - Dec ............................ 399 34,804 29,338 43,774 76 39 -527 15,215 - 1,191

2013 - Jan ............................. 98 22,252 -20,938 27,527 158 -151 111 45,700 - -2,883

Feb ............................ -219 -8,776 261,952 -38,497 -945 -304 -573 -98,732 - 203,539

Mar............................ -133 -10,445 95,355 -2,599 -560 -334 -825 6,857 - 106,530

Apr............................. 46 31,419 27,899 134,711 351 -133 57 -5,802 - -112,889

May ........................... 97 -43,736 -46,263 -179,182 -360 -128 -1,346 3,979 - 138,732

June .......................... 193 -4,543 1,107 100,176 186 248 618 -16,615 235 -116,501

July............................ 165 -15,529 12,220 -25,165 333 -230 223 60,538 - 97,597

Aug............................ -199 -49,349 49,404 -83,558 78 343 -1,295 13,760 327 147,923

Sept........................... 171 -9,486 7,392 62,251 674 354 318 -19,119 254 -75,070

Oct............................. 10 206,251 204,141 -5,385 142 143 -1,017 -118,666 - 91,592

Nov............................ -446 -32,491 93,153 -49,568 -95 -787 -724 -9,101 - 135,226

Dec............................ -175 60,555 73,643 128,966 172 231 -942 1,564 - -53,220 

Fiscal year 2014 to date ............. -611 234,315 370,937 74,013 219 -413 -2,683 -126,203 - 173,598

 

 

Note.—These estimates are based on the mid-session review of the President’s Budget for 

Fiscal Year 2014, released by the Office of Management and Budget on July 8, 2013. 

* Less than $500,000. 

- No transactions. 

Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. 
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TABLE FFO-2.—On-Budget and Off-Budget Receipts by Source 

[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government”] 

Fiscal year 

or month 

Income taxes 

Social insurance 

and retirement receipts 

 Employment and general retirement 

Old-age, disability, and 

hospital insurance Individual Corporation 

Withheld 

(1) 

Other 

(2) 

Refunds 

(3) 

 Net 

 (4) 

 Gross 

 (5) 

Refunds

(6) 

Net 

 (7) 

Net income 

taxes 

(8) 

 Gross 

 (9) 

 

Refunds

 (10) 

 Net 

 (11) 

 2009 .................. 861,774 312,474 258,940 915,307 225,891 87,662 138,229 1,053,536 847,184 2,511 844,673

2010 .................. 880,361 278,223 260,035 898,549 279,880 88,443 191,437 1,089,986 813,505 1,749 811,756

2011 .................. 990,952 338,348 237,827 1,091,473 243,492 62,407 181,085 1,272,559 756,371 2,094 754,276

2012 .................. 1,018,104 352,355 238,251 1,132,207 281,841 39,552 242,290 1,374,497 772,948 2,305 770,643

2013 .................. 1,102,745 443,651 229,992 1,316,405 312,477 38,970 273,505 1,589,910 884,988 2,443 882,545 2014 - Est.......... 1,395,844 * * 1,395,844 333,444 * 333,444 1,729,288 963,310 * 963,310 2012 - Dec......... 128,078 9,657 2,404 135,331 60,877 3,207 57,670 193,001 55,597 - 55,597

2013 - Jan ......... 93,832 62,262 127 155,967 10,206 2,454 7,752 163,719 83,981 - 83,981

Feb ........ 92,779 5,757 66,309 32,227 5,382 4,209 1,173 33,400 70,117 - 70,117

Mar ........ 103,809 9,181 58,363 54,627 33,842 4,988 28,854 83,481 83,033 - 83,033

Apr......... 85,958 209,034 54,788 240,204 41,035 4,951 36,083 276,287 96,756 - 96,756

May........ 88,094 6,436 16,090 78,439 8,586 2,324 6,262 84,701 73,300 - 73,300

June....... 72,874 50,482 5,050 118,306 64,768 1,809 62,959 181,265 85,293 - 85,293

July ........ 94,757 7,088 3,764 98,082 9,208 2,035 7,173 105,255 69,527 - 69,527

Aug ........ 82,808 5,703 3,225 85,286 4,966 1,370 3,595 88,881 71,079 - 71,079

Sept....... 85,481 58,362 2,974 140,870 59,905 2,759 57,146 198,016 80,995 2,443 78,552

Oct......... 88,055 18,258 7,206 99,106 10,302 3,827 6,475 105,581 67,170 - 67,170

Nov ........ 85,333 4,889 7,510 82,711 4,349 3,852 498 83,209 72,330 - 72,330

Dec ........ 117,835 10,481 3,708 124,608 65,063 2,776 62,287 186,895 75,378 - 75,378 Fiscal year 2014 

to date ................ 291,223 33,628 18,424 306,425 79,714 10,455 69,260 375,685 214,878 - 214,878

 

Fiscal year 

or month 

Social insurance and retirement receipts, con.

Employment and general retirement, con. Unemployment insurance Net for other insurance and retirement 

Railroad retirement Net employment 

and general 

retirement 

(15) 

Gross 

(16) 

 Refunds 

 (17) 

 Net un-

 employment 

 insurance 

 (18) 

Federal 

employees 

retirement 

(19) 

Other 

retirement 

(20) 

Total 

(21) 

Gross 

(12) 

Refunds 

(13) 

Net 

(14) 

 

2009 ............................ 4,214 1 4,213 848,886 37,996 107 37,889 4,104 38 4,142

2010 ............................ 4,141 1 4,140 815,896 44,922 99 44,823 4,042 35 4,076

2011 ............................ 4,240 2 4,238 758,515 56,335 95 56,241 4,021 30 4,051

2012 ............................ 4,289 6 4,283 774,926 66,747 99 66,647 3,712 30 3,739

2013 ............................ 4,963 63 4,900 887,445 56,958 149 56,811 3,539 25 3,564

 2014 - Est.................... 5,172 - 5,172 968,482 57,191 - 57,191 4,516 17 4,533

 

 

2012 - Dec .................. 387 58 329 55,925 649 4 645 289 3 292

2013 - Jan ................... 463 * 463 84,444 5,050 2 5,048 277 2 279

Feb.................. 569 4 565 70,683 3,598 1 3,596 271 2 273

Mar.................. 498 * 498 83,530 698 18 680 330 2 332

Apr................... 455 * 455 97,211 9,863 47 9,817 279 2 281

May ................. 484 1 483 73,783 18,255 16 18,240 312 2 314

June ................ -131 * -131 85,163 542 10 532 275 2 277

July.................. 501 * 501 70,028 4,432 15 4,418 267 2 269

Aug.................. 395 * 395 71,474 5,981 12 5,969 311 2 313

Sept................. 433 * 433 78,985 301 15 286 306 2 308

Oct................... 410 * 410 67,580 3,341 2 3,340 291 2 293

Nov.................. 487 * 487 72,817 4,592 1 4,590 270 4 273

Dec.................. 442 * 442 75,820 478 6 472 272 1 273

 

Fiscal year 2014 to date... 1,339 - 1,339 216,217 8,411 9 8,402 833 7 839

 

See footnotes at end of table. 
FEDERAL FISCAL OPERATIONS 

March 2014 

16 

Fiscal year 

or month 

Excise 

taxes, con. 

Net excise 

taxes 

(35) 

Estate and gift taxes Customs duties 

Net miscellaneous receipts 

Total receipts 

Deposits of 

earnings by 

Federal 

Reserve 

banks 

(42) 

Universal 

service fund

and all 

other 

(43) 

Total 

(44) 

 Gross 

 (36) 

 Refunds 

 (37) 

Net 

(38) 

Gross 

(39) 

Refunds

(40) 

Net 

(41) 

On-budget 

(45) 

Off-budget

(46) 

 

2009 ....................... 62,484 24,677 1,195 23,482 23,546 1,092 22,454 34,318 17,172 51,490 1,450,355 654,010

2010 ....................... 66,909 19,751 866 18,885 26,266 969 25,298 75,845 20,010 95,855 1,530,040 631,688

2011 ....................... 72,381 9,079 1,680 7,399 30,697 1,178 29,519 82,546 19,284 101,831 1,736,708 565,787

2012 ....................... 79,062 14,451 477 13,971 32,079 1,774 30,306 81,955 23,991 105,943 1,879,592 569,500

2013 ....................... 84,008 19,830 919 18,910 33,119 1,305 31,814 75,766 25,750 101,514 2,100,706 673,274 2014 - Est............... 105,169 15,243 - 15,243 36,481 - 36,481 83,000 23,617 106,617 2,283,787 739,217 2012 - Dec ............. 6,559 1,215 37 1,178 2,576 116 2,460 7,119 2,328 9,447 230,049 39,459

2013 - Jan .............. 6,352 1,162 32 1,130 2,873 74 2,799 5,650 2,802 8,453 207,810 64,415

Feb ............. 5,051 1,107 80 1,027 2,408 124 2,284 3,845 2,656 6,501 67,807 55,008

Mar............. 7,362 1,194 67 1,126 2,608 82 2,526 5,080 1,899 6,980 120,570 65,448

Apr.............. 6,922 6,206 317 5,888 2,643 148 2,495 5,815 2,007 7,822 332,553 74,170

May ............ 6,893 1,385 53 1,333 2,493 93 2,400 7,211 2,308 9,518 139,762 57,420

June ........... 6,719 1,271 38 1,233 2,667 104 2,563 7,080 1,795 8,875 220,392 66,235

July............. 7,211 1,624 47 1,577 2,999 114 2,884 6,623 1,765 8,388 146,265 53,765

Aug............. 6,315 1,305 52 1,253 2,949 106 2,843 6,343 1,978 8,322 130,599 54,771

Sept............ 11,114 1,184 55 1,129 3,070 114 2,956 6,311 2,332 8,642 242,172 59,264

Oct.............. 5,852 1,800 28 1,772 3,281 115 3,166 8,910 2,434 11,344 148,871 50,056

Nov............. 6,938 2,236 127 2,109 2,941 93 2,848 6,290 3,377 9,668 128,657 53,796

Dec............. 6,418 1,500 94 1,406 2,942 109 2,833 7,091 2,013 9,105 228,231 54,990 Fiscal year 2014 

 to date ...................... 19,208 5,536 249 5,287 9,164 317 8,847 22,291 7,824 30,117 505,759 158,842 

Note.—These estimates are based on the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2014, released 

by the Office of Management and Budget on July 8, 2013. 

* Less than $500,000. 

- No transactions. 

Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. 

TABLE FFO-2.—On-Budget and Off-Budget Receipts by Source, continued 

[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government”] 

Social 

insurance 

and retirement 

receipts, con. 

Net social 

insurance and 

retirement 

receipts 

(22) 

Excise taxes 

Fiscal year 

or month 

Airport and Airway Trust Fund 

Black Lung Disability 

Trust Fund Highway Trust Fund Miscellaneous 

Gross 

(23) 

Refunds

 (24) 

 Net 

 (25) 

Gross

(26) 

Refunds

(27) 

Net 

(28) 

Gross

(29) 

Refunds

(30) 

 Net 

 (31) 

 Gross 

 (32) 

 Refunds

 (33) 

 Net 

 (34) 

 

2009.............................. 890,918 10,679 110 10,569 645 - 645 36,007 1,046 34,961 23,408 7,100 16,308

2010.............................. 864,795 10,632 19 10,613 595 - 595 35,562 569 34,993 27,942 7,234 20,709

2011.............................. 818,807 11,551 18 11,532 623 - 623 36,907 - 36,907 27,510 4,191 23,320

2012.............................. 845,312 12,184 23 12,161 664 - 664 41,159 - 41,159 29,551 4,476 25,076

2013.............................. 947,820 12,677 19 12,658 529 - 529 36,410 - 36,410 38,423 4,015 34,409 2014 - Est ..................... 1,030,206 14,020 - 14,020 587 - 587 37,637 - 37,637 52,925 - 52,925 2012 - Dec .................... 56,862 1,129 - 1,129 59 - 59 3,560 - 3,560 1,845 34 1,811

2013 - Jan..................... 89,771 1,049 - 1,049 55 - 55 3,305 - 3,305 1,998 55 1,943

Feb.................... 74,552 1,084 - 1,084 53 - 53 3,156 - 3,156 875 117 758

Mar.................... 84,542 1,345 7 1,338 24 - 24 2,306 - 2,306 4,221 527 3,694

Apr .................... 107,309 1,089 - 1,089 53 - 53 3,161 - 3,161 2,780 161 2,619

May ................... 92,337 1,105 - 1,105 45 - 45 3,190 - 3,190 2,732 179 2,553

June .................. 85,972 664 3 661 3 - 3 1,531 - 1,531 5,169 645 4,525

July.................... 74,715 1,051 - 1,051 43 - 43 3,031 - 3,031 3,191 105 3,086

Aug.................... 77,756 1,049 6 1,043 45 - 45 3,384 - 3,384 2,965 1,123 1,842

Sept................... 79,579 1,698 3 1,695 74 - 74 5,252 - 5,252 4,809 716 4,093

Oct .................... 71,212 178 - 178 8 - 8 568 - 568 5,172 74 5,098

Nov.................... 77,680 1,254 - 1,254 58 - 58 3,852 - 3,852 1,988 214 1,774

Dec.................... 76,565 1,024 - 1,024 48 - 48 3,141 - 3,141 2,433 227 2,206 Fiscal year 2014 to date..... 225,457 2,456 - 2,456 114 - 114 7,561 - 7,561 9,593 515 9,078 
FEDERAL FISCAL OPERATIONS 

March 2014 

17

TABLE FFO-3.—On-Budget and Off-Budget Outlays by Agency 

[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government”] 

Fiscal year 

or month 

Legislative 

branch 

(1) 

Judicial 

branch 

(2) 

Department of 

Agriculture 

(3) 

Department of 

Commerce

(4) 

Department of

Defense, 

military 

(5) 

 Depart-

 ment of 

Education

 (6) 

 Depart-

 ment of

 Energy

 (7) 

 Depart- 

 ment of 

 Health 

 and 

 Human 

 Services

 (8) 

 Depart-

 ment of 

 Home- 

 land 

 Security 

 (9) 

Department of 

Housing 

and 

Urban 

Development 

(10) 

 Depart- 

 ment of

 the 

 Interior

 (11) 

Department of

Justice

(12) 

 Depart-

 ment of

 Labor

 (13) 

 

2009 ....................... 4,703 6,643 114,436 10,720 636,772 53,387 23,684 796,266 51,720 61,018 11,778 27,713 138,156

2010 ....................... 5,838 7,185 129,454 13,233 666,717 92,858 30,775 854,060 44,455 60,143 13,163 29,558 173,053

2011 ....................... 4,583 7,295 139,394 9,930 678,077 64,271 31,371 891,245 45,744 57,008 13,529 30,518 131,973

2012 ....................... 4,438 7,228 139,712 10,267 650,869 57,248 32,485 848,055 47,423 49,591 12,886 31,161 104,742

2013 ....................... 4,328 7,066 155,897 9,137 607,801 40,910 24,677 886,293 57,220 56,577 9,605 29,740 80,309 2014 - Est............... 4,894 7,621 149,080 9,327 585,950 74,352 29,426 962,354 53,666 40,283 13,065 35,515 81,066 

 2012 - Dec.............. 354 563 16,363 811 50,140 6,054 2,451 55,528 5,613 3,006 913 1,431 7,647

2013 - Jan .............. 380 563 15,537 736 50,885 -1,032 1,964 72,350 5,866 2,530 851 2,615 8,936

Feb ............. 328 545 11,811 688 43,625 7,971 2,055 70,377 5,146 2,749 789 2,450 6,516

Mar ............. 338 738 11,049 545 53,615 7,180 967 72,497 5,532 2,761 879 2,492 7,287

Apr.............. 399 542 11,756 927 46,514 81 1,949 75,319 4,519 2,412 940 2,486 7,703

May............. 363 616 11,747 705 54,277 6,465 2,319 93,732 4,321 2,363 726 2,899 6,020

June............ 310 501 10,443 802 42,282 -9,296 2,577 53,035 3,812 1,828 1,552 1,700 5,955

July ............. 324 576 10,801 680 48,904 4,699 1,900 78,891 3,621 7,089 633 2,568 6,750

Aug ............. 345 669 10,859 682 53,367 7,028 1,650 94,535 3,633 2,289 1,153 2,428 5,972

Sept ............ 374 557 9,409 814 47,859 2,185 2,099 53,399 4,947 24,031 1,151 2,617 4,379

Oct.............. 358 573 17,910 512 57,391 2,857 2,331 76,630 3,592 2,916 1,194 2,830 3,887

Nov ............. 344 533 13,860 625 47,209 5,503 1,809 88,798 3,598 3,383 959 2,503 5,750

Dec ............. 329 532 13,882 669 49,890 5,620 2,192 58,709 3,674 3,226 435 69 6,889 

Fiscal year 2014 

 to date ...................... 1,031 1,638 45,652 1,806 154,490 13,980 6,332 224,137 10,864 9,525 2,588 5,402 16,526

 

Fiscal year 

or month 

Department of 

State 

(14) 

Department of 

Transportation 

(15) 

Department 

of the 

Treasury, 

interest on 

Treasury 

debt 

securities 

(gross) 

(16) 

Department 

of the 

Treasury, 

other 

(17) 

Department of 

Veterans 

Affairs 

(18) 

Corps of 

Engineers 

(19) 

Other 

Defense,

civil 

programs

(20) 

Environmental 

Protection 

Agency 

(21) 

Executive 

Office 

of the 

President 

(22) 

General 

Services 

Administration

(23) 

International 

Assistance 

Program

(24) 

 2009 ....................... 21,430 73,006 383,073 318,701 95,454 6,840 57,276 8,070 742 320 14,801

2010 ....................... 23,804 77,751 413,955 30,385 108,275 9,875 54,031 11,007 583 861 20,040

2011 ....................... 24,334 77,302 454,015 82,720 126,917 10,138 54,775 10,770 484 1,889 20,601

2012 ....................... 26,948 75,148 359,240 105,456 124,127 7,777 77,316 12,794 405 1,754 20,060

2013 ....................... 25,928 76,317 415,671 -16,618 138,463 6,301 56,811 9,485 380 -368 19,745 2014 - Est............... 30,412 86,422 419,797 93,387 149,501 7,059 57,722 8,403 408 -508 26,375 2012 - Dec ............. 2,186 6,708 95,737 -2,065 10,628 672 5,254 835 31 63 1,624

2013 - Jan .............. 1,723 5,091 17,817 3,101 6,344 537 1,523 891 29 -60 -12

Feb............. 1,757 4,787 16,882 52,350 10,719 422 5,208 951 32 -119 2,081

Mar............. 1,824 5,089 23,472 -742 12,332 424 4,759 817 37 142 2,313

Apr.............. 1,836 5,574 35,952 10,836 11,335 471 2,338 748 34 -191 845

May ............ 1,874 5,998 24,378 6,774 16,631 499 8,833 685 34 219 2,473

June ........... 1,615 6,460 93,032 -63,386 7,150 437 1,153 604 28 -103 3,150

July............. 2,357 6,883 25,077 2,746 11,145 472 4,661 553 29 -67 662

Aug............. 1,714 7,730 25,488 2,619 17,996 389 8,299 782 36 105 1,499

Sept............ 4,153 8,715 19,844 -40,438 6,975 556 908 938 34 -186 1,821

Oct.............. 2,218 6,903 15,799 3,256 12,126 725 5,403 790 23 76 1,424

Nov............. 2,488 6,542 22,327 2,330 16,954 529 9,112 730 34 -21 774

Dec............. 2,362 6,425 87,712 -36,745 11,646 513 5,986 613 29 -158 2,461 Fiscal year 2014 

 to date...................... 7,068 19,870 125,838 -31,159 40,726 1,767 20,501 2,133 86 -103 4,659

 

See footnotes at end of table.
FEDERAL FISCAL OPERATIONS 

March 2014 

18 

TABLE FFO-3.—On-Budget and Off-Budget Outlays by Agency, continued 

[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government”] 

Undistributed offsetting receipts 

Fiscal year 

or month 

National 

Aeronautics

and 

Space 

Administration 

(25) 

National 

Science 

Foundation 

(26) 

Office of 

Personnel 

Management 

(27) 

Small 

Business 

Administration 

(28) 

Social 

Security

Administration 

(29) 

Independent 

agencies

(30) 

Employer 

share, 

employee 

retirement 

(31) 

Interest 

received 

by trust 

funds 

(32) 

Rents 

and 

royalties 

on the 

Outer 

Continental Shelf 

lands 

(33) 

Other 

(34) 

Total outlays 

Onbudget 

(35) 

 Offbudget

 (36) 

 

2009 .................. 19,168 5,958 72,302 2,246 727,549 50,356 -70,656 -181,561 -5,293 -16,690 3,003,070 517,018

2010 .................. 18,906 6,720 69,916 6,126 754,182 -3,094 -77,036 -185,764 -4,883 -197 2,901,248 554,684

2011 .................. 17,617 7,146 74,091 6,162 784,194 14,505 -79,681 -188,017 -6,384 -431 3,099,477 498,609

2012 .................. 17,190 7,255 79,456 2,937 821,145 34,007 -83,938 -127,142 -6,606 -12,993 3,030,856 507,589

2013 .................. 16,978 7,418 83,868 473 867,395 25,906 -81,321 -156,676 -8,874 -2,588 2,820,440 633,815

 

2014 - Est.......... 17,992 7,798 95,862 1,134 912,719 18,237 -84,706 -150,649 -7,516 36,925 3,068,252 705,121

 

 

2012 - Dec ........ 1,846 669 6,390 101 71,118 2,039 -5,178 -75,680 -567 2,588 267,740 2,959

2013 - Jan ......... 980 370 7,416 123 67,180 1,941 -5,336 -1,930 -567 - 212,018 57,324

Feb ........ 1,281 607 6,886 98 71,911 1,528 -5,290 -166 -621 - 260,700 65,653

Mar........ 1,455 593 6,537 117 72,501 2,006 -5,765 -1,138 -104 - 226,200 66,348

Apr......... 1,172 402 7,535 -687 71,743 1,090 -5,440 -6,231 -1,075 - 236,743 57,091

May ....... 1,580 598 6,799 115 77,140 2,653 -5,781 -1,537 -604 - 269,499 66,415

June ...... 1,278 674 6,377 106 72,962 3,386 -5,402 -74,458 -437 - 150,562 19,564

July........ 1,422 650 7,673 96 72,777 2,639 -5,419 -2,716 -1,450 - 237,755 59,872

Aug........ 1,490 851 6,908 111 77,509 3,298 -5,678 -2,095 -369 - 265,356 67,937

Sept....... 1,743 760 6,990 105 68,976 -2,314 -5,766 -444 -827 - 158,930 67,436

Oct......... 968 504 7,662 89 72,920 1,450 -19,361 5,134 -571 - 226,427 64,093

Nov........ 1,617 653 7,216 96 77,828 86 -5,246 -1,150 -93 - 250,867 66,813

Dec........ 1,880 480 6,652 81 74,058 -3,365 -5,240 -70,528 -980 - 212,435 17,566

 

Fiscal year 2014 

to date................ 4,465 1,637 21,530 266 224,806 -1,829 -29,847 -66,544 -1,644 - 689,729 148,472 

Note.—These estimates are based on the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2014, 

released by the Office of Management and Budget on July 8, 2013. 

* Less than $500,000. 

- No transactions. 

Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. 
FEDERAL FISCAL OPERATIONS 

March 2014 

19

TABLE FFO-4.—Summary of U.S. Government Receipts by Source and Outlays by Agency, 

December 2013 and Other Periods 

[In millions of dollars. Source: Financial Management Service] 

This fiscal year to date Prior fiscal year to date 

Classification 

General 

funds 

(1) 

Management, 

consolidated, 

revolving and 

special funds

(2) 

Trust 

funds 

(3) 

 Total 

 funds 

 (4) 

 General

 funds 

 (5) 

Management, 

consolidated, 

revolving and 

special funds 

(6) 

Trust 

funds 

(7) 

Total 

funds 

(8) 

Budget receipts: 

Individual income taxes............................................... 306,424 2 - 306,426 312,396 2 - 312,398

Corporation income taxes........................................... 69,260 - * 69,260 62,508 - * 62,508

Social insurance and retirement receipts: 

Employment and general retirement (off-budget)... - - 158,842 158,842 - - 122,778 122,778

Employment and general retirement (on-budget)... - - 57,375 57,375 - - 49,367 49,367

Unemployment insurance ....................................... - - 8,401 8,401 - - 8,225 8,225

Other retirement...................................................... - - 839 839 - - 918 918

Excise taxes ................................................................ 5,448 313 13,448 19,208 8,517 246 11,306 20,069

Estate and gift taxes ................................................... 5,287 - - 5,287 3,215 -. - 3,215

Customs duties ........................................................... 5,809 2,615 423 8,847 5,216 2,413 435 8,063

Miscellaneous receipts................................................ 24,848 4,734 535 30,116 22,972 3,976 1,064 28,013

Total receipts....................................................... 417,076 7,663 239,863 664,601 414,823 6,637 194,093 615,553

(On-budget)..................................................... 417,076 7,663 81,020 505,759 414,823 6,637 71,315 492,775

(Off-budget)..................................................... - - 158,842 158,842 - - 122,778 122,778

 

Budget outlays: 

Legislative branch ....................................................... 1,006 21 3 1,030 1,138 25 4 1,168

Judicial branch ............................................................ 1,648 43 -53 1,638 1,439 362 -43 1,758

Department of Agriculture ........................................... 31,805 13,610 237 45,652 34,208 18,032 246 52,485

Department of Commerce........................................... 1,757 44 5 1,806 2,413 149 -4 2,558

Department of Defense-military .................................. 153,142 1,277 71 154,490 164,734 1,727 11 166,472

Department of Education ............................................ 13,983 -5 1 13,980 15,637 -8 * 15,628

Department of Energy................................................. 6,788 -456 * 6,332 7,765 -568 * 7,197

Department of Health and Human Services ............... 165,662 -489 58,964 224,137 152,253 -101 70,006 222,158

Department of Homeland Security.............................. 11,814 -968 19 10,865 14,560 1,279 -16 15,823

Department of Housing and Urban Development....... 9,632 -110 3 9,524 8,531 -7 1 8,525

Department of the Interior........................................... 2,397 90 101 2,588 2,547 -1,721 105 932

Department of Justice ................................................. 5,262 201 -61 5,402 7,178 381 -74 7,485

Department of Labor................................................... 6,561 43 9,923 16,528 10,750 -147 10,189 20,791

Department of State.................................................... 6,894 -15 189 7,067 6,955 -10 130 7,075

Department of Transportation..................................... 15,128 -36 4,778 19,870 9,552 -86 10,526 19,992

Department of the Treasury: 

Interest on the public debt....................................... 125,838 - - 125,838 133,728 - - 133,728

Other ....................................................................... -32,452 1,056 238 -31,159 9,205 34 282 9,521

Department of Veterans Affairs .................................. 41,290 -759 195 40,727 38,315 -667 187 37,835

Corps of Engineers ..................................................... 1,569 167 31 1,767 1,855 159 81 2,094

Other defense civil programs...................................... 78,735 -1,646 -54,820 20,501 73,905 -4,677 -50,100 19,129

Environmental Protection Agency............................... 2,301 -32 -136 2,133 2,804 -71 -216 2,516

Executive Office of the President................................ 86 * - 86 87 * - 87

General Services Administration ................................ -11 -93 - -104 16 -124 - -108

International Assistance Program............................... 5,576 -86 -831 4,659 4,466 -107 554 4,913

National Aeronautics and Space Administration ........ 4,460 4 * 4,465 4,626 -49 * 4,577

National Science Foundation...................................... 1,609 21 7 1,637 1,867 36 10 1,913

Office of Personnel Management ............................... 2,779 -633 19,385 21,530 2,786 -726 18,687 20,747

Small Business Administration ................................... 266 * * 266 287 3 * 290

Social Security Administration .................................... 21,161 -14 203,660 224,807 49,702 -14 165,007 214,695

Other independent agencies....................................... 3,038 -5,607 739 -1,830 3,095 4,909 1,675 9,679

Undistributed offsetting receipts: 

Interest .................................................................... - - -66,544 -66,544 - - -65,961 -65,961

Other ....................................................................... -1,644 -7,650 -22,197 -31,492 -5,407 -8,529 -22,915 -36,851

Total outlays........................................................ 688,081 -2,020 153,907 838,199 760,995 9,483 138,373 908,851

(On-budget)..................................................... 688,006 -540 4,030 689,728 760,870 11,833 29,973 802,677

(Off-budget)..................................................... 75 -1,481 149,877 148,471 125 -2,350 108,400 106,175

Surplus or deficit (-)............................................. -271,005 9,684 85,956 -173,598 -346,172 -2,846 55,720 -293,298

(On-budget)..................................................... -270,930 8,203 76,991 -183,969 -346,047 -5,196 41,342 -309,901

(Off-budget)..................................................... -75 1,481 8,965 10,371 -125 2,350 14,378 16,603

- No transactions. 

* Less than $500,000. 

Note.—Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. 
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INTRODUCTION: Source and Availability of the 

Balance in the Account of the U.S. Treasury

The Department of the Treasury’s (Treasury’s) operating 

cash is maintained in accounts with the Federal Reserve 

banks (FRBs) and branches, as well as in tax and loan 

accounts in other financial institutions. Major information 

sources include FRBs, Treasury Regional Financial Centers, 

Internal Revenue Service Centers, Bureau of the Public 

Debt, and various electronic systems. As the FRB accounts 

are depleted, funds are called in (withdrawn) from thousands 

of tax and loan accounts at financial institutions throughout 

the country. 

Under authority of Public Law 95-147 (codified at 31 

United States Code 323), Treasury implemented a program 

on November 2, 1978, to invest a portion of its operating 

cash in obligations of depositaries maintaining tax and loan 

accounts. Under the Treasury tax and loan (TT&L) 

investment program, depositary financial institutions select 

the manner in which they will participate. Financial 

institutions wishing to retain funds deposited into their tax 

and loan accounts in interest-bearing obligations can 

participate. The program permits Treasury to collect funds 

through financial institutions and to leave the funds in TT&L 

depositaries and in the financial communities in which they 

arise until Treasury needs the funds for its operations. In this 

way, Treasury is able to neutralize the effect of its 

fluctuating operations on TT&L financial institution reserves 

and on the economy. Likewise, those institutions wishing to 

remit the funds to the Treasury account at FRBs do so as 

collector depositaries. 

Deposits to tax and loan accounts occur as customers of 

financial institutions deposit tax payments that the financial 

institutions use to purchase Government securities. In most 

cases, this involves a transfer of funds from a customer’s 

account to the tax and loan account in the same financial 

institution. Also, Treasury can direct the FRBs to invest 

excess funds in tax and loan accounts directly from the 

Treasury account at the FRBs. 

TABLE UST-1.—Elements of Change in Federal Reserve 

and Tax and Loan Note Account Balances 1

[In millions of dollars. Source: Financial Management Service] 

 Credits and withdrawals

 Federal Reserve accounts

 Credits 2 Tax and loan note accounts

Fiscal year or month 

Received directly 

(1) 

Received through 

remittance option tax 

and loan depositaries 

(2) 

Withdrawals 3 

(3) 

Taxes 4 

(4) 

Withdrawals 

(transfers to Federal 

Reserve accounts) 

(5) 

 

2009 ................................................ 11,577,153 482,146 12,118,510 1,398,542 1,435,675 

2010 ................................................ 11,016,385 556,403 11,538,208 1,362,591 1,362,604 

2011 ................................................ 10,508,615 592,338 11,352,518 1,366,003 1,366,181 

2012 ................................................ 9,656,367 1,357,452 10,984,657 700,687 702,492 

2013 ................................................ 9,451,987 2,297,190 11,746,237 - -

 2012 - Dec ...................................... 746,167 245,049 947,442 - -

2013 - Jan....................................... 811,055 185,580 969,109 - -

Feb ...................................... 787,139 166,969 992,604 - -

Mar ...................................... 667,629 218,342 888,570 - -

Apr....................................... 1,018,049 238,276 1,121,614 - -

May...................................... 767,537 167,350 1,114,069 - -

June..................................... 653,891 217,151 770,866 - -

July ...................................... 735,024 173,251 933,439 - -

Aug ...................................... 753,024 156,275 992,856 - -

Sept..................................... 881,837 225,937 1,045,523 - -

Oct....................................... 836,083 165,149 1,006,617 - -

Nov ...................................... 612,157 161,051 822,776 - -

Dec ...................................... 790,907 257,396 919,337 - -

 

See footnotes at end of table. 
ACCOUNT OF THE U.S. TREASURY 

March 2014 

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TABLE UST-1.—Elements of Change in Federal Reserve 

and Tax and Loan Note Account Balances, con. 1

[In millions of dollars. Source: Financial Management Service] 

Balances

 During period

End of period High Low Average 

Fiscal year 

or month 

Federal 

Reserve 

(6) 

SFP 

(7) 

Tax and 

loan 

note 

accounts 

(8) 

Federal 

Reserve

(9) 

SFP 

(10) 

Tax and 

loan 

note 

accounts

(11) 

Federal 

Reserve 

(12) 

SFP 

(13) 

Tax and 

loan 

note 

accounts 

(14) 

Federal 

Reserve 

(15) 

SFP 

(16) 

Tax and 

loan 

note 

accounts 

(17) 

 

2009 ....................... 108,324 164,945 1,996 136,672 558,864 79,897 3,987 - 284 52,381 144,538 4,161 

2010 ....................... 107,888 199,962 1,983 186,632 199,965 2,630 3,191 - 62 53,632 115,525 1,957 

2011 ....................... 56,284 - 1,805 147,189 199,964 3,067 3,302 5,000 113 58,431 83,628 1,982 

2012 ....................... 85,446 - - 166,619 - - 13,680 - - 65,396 - -

2013 ....................... 88,386 - - 213,863 - - 11,476 - - 59,950 - -

 

2012 - Dec ............. 92,720 - - 92,720 - - 19,121 - - 49,448 - -

2013 - Jan.............. 120,247 - - 120,247 - - 42,637 - - 67,626 - -

Feb ............. 81,750 - - 81,750 - - 14,411 - - 40,394 - -

Mar ............. 79,152 - - 90,815 - - 22,220 - - 56,669 - -

Apr.............. 213,863 - - 213,863 - - 52,487 - - 101,126 - -

May............. 34,681 - - 184,624 - - 11,950 - - 71,117 - -

June............ 134,858 - - 134,858 - - 11,476 - - 72,062 - -

July ............. 109,693 - - 128,534 - - 49,324 - - 74,309 - -

Aug ............. 26,135 - - 79,176 - - 25,064 - - 51,378 - -

Sept............ 88,386 - - 94,495 - - 16,949 - - 40,252 - -

Oct.............. 83,001 - - 83,001 - - 23,393 - - 37,782 - -

Nov ............. 33,433 - - 67,234 - - 23,564 - - 43,720 - -

Dec ............. 162,399 - - 162,399 - - 20,065 - - 68,305 - -

 

 1 This report does not include Supplementary Financing Program (SFP) balances.

2

 Represents transfers from tax and loan note accounts, proceeds from sales of securities 

other than Government account series, and taxes. 

3

 Represents checks paid, wire transfer payments, drawdowns on letters of credit, 

redemptions of securities other than Government account series, and investment (transfer) 

of excess funds out of this account to the tax and loan note accounts. 

4 Taxes eligible for credit consist of those deposited by taxpayers in the tax and loan 

depositaries as follows: withheld income taxes beginning March 1948; taxes on employers 

and employees under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act beginning January 1950 

and under the Railroad Retirement Tax Act beginning July 1951; a number of excise taxes 

beginning July 1953; estimated corporation income taxes beginning April 1967; all 

corporation income taxes due on or after March 15, 1968; Federal Unemployment Tax Act 

taxes beginning April 1970; and individual estimated income taxes beginning October 1988. 
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INTRODUCTION: Federal Debt 

Treasury securities (i.e., public debt securities) comprise 

most of the Federal debt, with securities issued by other 

Federal agencies accounting for the rest. Tables in this 

section of the “Treasury Bulletin” reflect the total. Further 

detailed information is published in the “Monthly Statement 

of the Public Debt of the United States.” Likewise, 

information on agency securities and on investments of 

Federal Government accounts in Federal securities is 

published in the “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts 

and Outlays of the United States Government.” 

Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service compiles data in 

the “Treasury Bulletin” tables FD-2 and FD-6 from the 

“Monthly Statement of the Public Debt of the United 

States.” 

 Table FD-1 summarizes the Federal debt by listing 

public debt and agency securities held by the public, 

including the Federal Reserve. It also includes debt held by 

Federal agencies, largely by the Social Security and other 

Federal retirement trust funds. The net unamortized 

premium and discount also are listed by total Federal 

securities, securities held by Government accounts and 

securities held by the public. The difference between the 

outstanding face value of the Federal debt and the net 

unamortized premium and discount is classified as the 

accrual amount. (For greater detail on holdings of Federal 

securities by particular classes of investors, see the 

ownership tables, OFS-1 and OFS-2.) 

 Table FD-2 categorizes by type, that is, marketable 

and nonmarketable, the total public debt securities 

outstanding that are held by the public. 

 In table FD-3, nonmarketable Treasury securities 

held by U.S. Government accounts are summarized by 

issues to particular funds within Government. Many of the 

funds invest in par value special series nonmarketabletes at 

interest rates determined by law. Others invest in marketbased special Treasury securities whose terms mirror those 

of marketable securities. 

 Table FD-4 presents interest-bearing securities 

issued by Government agencies. Federal agency borrowing 

has declined in recent years, in part because the Federal 

Financing Bank has provided financing to other Federal 

agencies. (Federal agency borrowing from Treasury is 

presented in the “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts 

and Outlays of the United States Government.”) 

 Table FD-5 illustrates the average length of 

marketable interest-bearing public debt held by private 

investors and the maturity distribution of that debt. 

In March 1971, Congress enacted a limited exception to 

the amount of bonds with rates greater than 4-1/4 percent 

that could be held by the public. This permitted Treasury to 

offer securities maturing in more than 7 years at current 

market interest rates for the first time since 1965. In March 

1976, the definition of a bond was changed to include those 

securities longer than 10 years to maturity. This exception 

has expanded since 1971, authorizing Treasury to continue 

to issue long-term securities. The ceiling on Treasury bonds 

was repealed on November 10, 1988. 

The volume of privately held Treasury marketable 

securities by maturity class reflects the remaining period to 

maturity of Treasury bills, notes and bonds. The average 

length is comprised of an average of remaining periods to 

maturity, weighted by the amount of each security held by 

private investors. In other words, computations of average 

length exclude Government accounts and the FRBs. 

 In table FD-6, the debt ceiling is compared with the 

outstanding debt subject to limitation by law. The other debt 

category includes Federal debt Congress has designated as 

being subject to the debt ceiling. 

 Table FD-7 details Treasury holdings of securities 

issued by Government corporations and other agencies. 

Certain Federal agencies are authorized to borrow money 

from the Treasury, largely to finance direct loan programs. 

In addition, agencies such as the Bonneville Power 

Administration are authorized to borrow from the Treasury 

to finance capital projects. Treasury, in turn, finances these 

loans by selling Treasury securities to the public. 
FEDERAL DEBT 

March 2014 

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TABLE FD-1.—Summary of Federal Debt

[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government”] 

End of fiscal 

year or month 

Amount outstanding 

Securities held by 

Government accounts The public 

Total 

(1) 

Public debt 

securities 

(2) 

Agency

securities 

(3) 

Total 

(4) 

Public debt

securities 

(5) 

Agency

securities

(6) 

Total 

(7) 

Public debt 

securities 

(8) 

Agency

securities

(9) 

 

2009............................... 11,933,031 11,909,828 23,203 4,355,292 4,355,291 1 7,577,739 7,554,537 23,202

2010............................... 13,585,596 13,561,622 23,974 4,534,014 4,534,011 3 9,051,582 9,027,611 23,971

2011............................... 14,815,328 14,790,340 24,988 4,658,307 4,658,301 6 10,157,021 10,132,039 24,982

2012............................... 16,090,640 16,066,241 24,399 4,791,850 4,791,845 5 11,298,790 11,274,396 24,394

2013............................... 16,763,286 16,738,183 25,103 4,757,211 4,757,205 5 12,006,076 11,980,978 25,098

 

2012 - Dec ..................... 16,457,613 16,432,729 24,884 4,846,174 4,846,169 5 11,611,439 11,586,560 24,879

2013 - Jan...................... 16,458,774 16,433,792 24,982 4,868,335 4,868,329 5 11,590,439 11,565,463 24,977

Feb..................... 16,712,052 16,687,289 24,763 4,859,474 4,859,468 5 11,852,578 11,827,821 24,758

Mar..................... 16,796,009 16,771,378 24,631 4,848,930 4,848,924 5 11,947,079 11,922,454 24,626

Apr ..................... 16,853,522 16,828,845 24,677 4,880,244 4,880,239 5 11,973,278 11,948,606 24,672

May .................... 16,763,595 16,738,821 24,774 4,836,371 4,836,365 5 11,927,224 11,902,456 24,769

June ................... 16,763,286 16,738,319 24,967 4,831,752 4,831,746 5 11,931,534 11,906,573 24,962

July..................... 16,763,730 16,738,599 25,131 4,816,157 4,816,151 5 11,947,573 11,922,447 25,126

Aug..................... 16,763,581 16,738,649 24,932 4,766,719 4,766,714 5 11,996,862 11,971,936 24,926

Sept.................... 16,763,286 16,738,183 25,103 4,757,211 4,757,205 5 12,006,076 11,980,978 25,098

Oct ..................... 17,181,230 17,156,117 25,113 4,969,004 4,968,998 5 12,212,226 12,187,119 25,108

Nov..................... 17,241,818 17,217,151 24,667 4,936,273 4,936,267 5 12,305,545 12,280,884 24,662

Dec..................... 17,376,462 17,351,970 24,492 4,996,782 4,996,776 5 12,379,680 12,355,194 24,487 

 

End of fiscal 

year or month 

Federal debt securities Securities held by Government accounts Securities held by the public 

Amount 

outstanding 

face value 

(10) 

Net 

unamortized 

premium 

and discount 

 (11) 

Accrual 

 amount 

(12) 

Amount 

outstanding 

face value 

(13) 

Net 

unamortized 

premium 

and discount

(14) 

Accrual 

amount 

(15) 

Amount 

outstanding 

face value 

(16) 

Net 

unamortized 

premium 

and discount

(17) 

Accrual

amount

(18) 

 

2009 ............................... 11,933,031 59,219 11,873,812 4,355,292 25,467 4,329,825 7,577,739 33,752 7,543,987

2010 ............................... 13,585,596 58,963 13,526,633 4,534,014 25,145 4,508,869 9,051,582 33,818 9,017,764

2011 ............................... 14,815,328 53,105 14,762,223 4,658,307 23,697 4,634,610 10,157,021 29,408 10,127,613

2012 ............................... 16,090,640 42,529 16,048,111 4,791,850 23,592 4,768,258 11,298,790 18,937 11,279,854

2013 ............................... 16,763,286 46,496 16,716,791 4,757,211 22,292 4,734,919 12,006,076 24,203 11,981,872

 

2012 - Dec ..................... 16,457,613 40,757 16,416,857 4,846,174 23,062 4,823,112 11,611,439 17,695 11,593,745

2013 - Jan ...................... 16,458,774 40,603 16,418,170 4,868,335 22,971 4,845,364 11,590,439 17,632 11,572,806

Feb ..................... 16,712,052 40,705 16,671,347 4,859,474 22,886 4,836,588 11,852,578 17,819 11,834,759

Mar..................... 16,796,009 39,752 16,756,257 4,848,930 22,787 4,826,143 11,947,079 16,965 11,930,114

Apr...................... 16,853,522 37,947 16,815,575 4,880,244 22,682 4,857,562 11,973,278 15,265 11,958,013

May .................... 16,763,595 38,020 16,725,576 4,836,371 22,544 4,813,826 11,927,224 15,476 11,911,750

June ................... 16,763,286 41,147 16,722,139 4,831,752 22,469 4,809,283 11,931,534 18,678 11,912,856

July..................... 16,763,730 44,900 16,718,830 4,816,157 22,402 4,793,754 11,947,573 22,497 11,925,076

Aug..................... 16,763,581 44,696 16,718,885 4,766,719 22,314 4,744,405 11,996,862 22,383 11,974,480

Sept.................... 16,763,286 46,496 16,716,791 4,757,211 22,292 4,734,919 12,006,076 24,203 11,981,872

Oct...................... 17,181,230 54,048 17,127,182 4,969,004 27,834 4,941,170 12,212,226 26,214 12,186,013

Nov..................... 17,241,818 53,974 17,187,845 4,936,273 27,594 4,908,679 12,305,545 26,380 12,279,166

Dec..................... 17,376,462 54,420 17,322,042 4,996,782 27,548 4,969,234 12,379,680 26,872 12,352,809

 
FEDERAL DEBT 

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 Nonmarketable, con. 

End of fiscal 

year or month 

U.S. savings 

securities 

(8) 

Depositary

compensation 

securities 

(9) 

Foreign series 

(10) 

Government 

account series 

(11) 

State and local 

government series 

(12) 

Domestic 

series 

(13) 

Other 

(14) 

2009 .................................... 192,452 - 4,886 118,636 216,488 29,995 1,466

2010 .................................... 188,796 - 4,186 129,355 193,208 29,995 1,340

2011 .................................... 185,187 - 2,986 151,346 151,831 29,995 1,386

2012 .................................... 183,661 - 2,986 162,880 158,514 29,995 1,380

2013 .................................... 180,022 - 2,986 60,445 124,079 29,995 1,353

 

2012 - Dec .......................... 182,513 - 2,986 168,647 162,587 29,995 1,306

2013 - Jan ........................... 182,245 - 2,986 90,661 157,729 29,995 1,328

Feb .......................... 182,054 - 2,986 164,095 153,957 29,995 1,346

Mar.......................... 181,783 - 2,986 165,586 157,814 29,995 1,307

Apr........................... 181,559 - 2,986 167,609 163,574 29,995 1,288

May ......................... 181,233 - 2,986 138,165 166,692 29,995 1,315

June ........................ 180,958 - 2,986 155,293 154,875 29,995 1,317

July.......................... 180,630 - 2,986 99,954 138,083 29,995 1,355

Aug.......................... 180,270 - 2,986 57,550 127,632 29,995 1,369

Sept......................... 180,022 - 2,986 60,445 124,079 29,995 1,353

Oct........................... 179,792 - 2,986 180,786 120,597 29,995 1,345

Nov.......................... 179,608 - 2,986 179,952 118,936 29,995 1,382

Dec.......................... 179,226 - 2,986 179,999 115,488 29,995 1,440

 

TABLE FD-2.—Debt Held by the Public

[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Statement of the Public Debt of the United States”] 

End of fiscal 

year or month 

Total public debt 

securities 

outstanding 

(1) 

Marketable

Nonmarketable 

Total 

(7) 

Total 

(2) 

 Bills 

 (3) 

Notes 

(4) 

Bonds 

(5) 

Treasury 

inflation-protected 

securities 

(6) 

 

2009 .................................. 7,551,862 6,987,937 1,986,173 3,772,964 677,491 551,308 563,924

2010 .................................. 9,022,808 8,475,928 1,783,675 5,252,585 846,054 593,614 546,880

2011 .................................. 10,127,031 9,604,300 1,475,557 6,406,983 1,016,407 705,352 522,731

2012 .................................. 11,269,586 10,730,170 1,613,026 7,114,960 1,194,715 807,469 539,415

2013 .................................. 11,976,279 11,577,400 1,527,909 7,750,336 1,363,114 936,041 398,879

 

2012 - Dec ........................ 11,581,518 11,033,484 1,626,480 7,320,862 1,236,669 849,473 548,034

2013 - Jan ......................... 11,560,176 11,095,232 1,604,981 7,380,028 1,249,625 860,597 464,944

Feb ........................ 11,822,436 11,288,004 1,738,404 7,416,574 1,265,673 867,353 534,432

Mar........................ 11,916,888 11,377,417 1,788,158 7,428,092 1,278,670 882,497 539,471

Apr......................... 11,943,148 11,396,138 1,692,540 7,520,728 1,291,619 891,251 547,011

May ....................... 11,897,151 11,376,764 1,605,043 7,557,102 1,307,774 906,846 520,387

June ...................... 11,901,292 11,375,869 1,568,076 7,574,018 1,320,622 913,153 525,424

July........................ 11,917,023 11,464,020 1,553,784 7,672,139 1,333,834 904,262 453,003

Aug........................ 11,967,014 11,567,212 1,635,748 7,658,872 1,350,079 922,513 399,802

Sept....................... 11,976,279 11,577,400 1,527,909 7,750,336 1,363,114 936,041 398,879

Oct......................... 12,187,370 11,671,868 1,543,471 7,804,727 1,379,099 944,571 515,502

Nov........................ 12,281,126 11,768,268 1,619,345 7,795,110 1,395,101 958,712 512,858

Dec........................ 12,355,427 11,846,292 1,590,563 7,875,065 1,408,110 972,555 509,134
FEDERAL DEBT 

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End of fiscal 

year or month 

Federal 

Old-Age and 

Survivors 

Insurance 

Trust Fund 

(10) 

Federal 

Savings 

and Loan 

Corporation, 

Resolution 

Fund 

(11) 

Federal 

Supplementary 

Medical 

Insurance 

Trust Fund 

(12) 

Highway

Trust 

Fund 

(13) 

National 

Service Life 

Insurance 

Fund 

(14) 

Postal 

Service 

Fund 

(15) 

Railroad 

Retirement 

Account 

(16) 

Unemployment 

Trust 

Fund 

(17) 

Other 

(18) 

 

2009 ..................... 2,296,316 3,313 61,764 11,484 8,735 4,239 405 19,628 683,808

2010 ..................... 2,399,111 3,388 70,982 24,455 8,161 1,142 506 18,703 759,426

2011 ..................... 2,492,531 3,374 70,446 16,302 7,541 1,207 696 16,030 855,991

2012 ..................... 2,586,697 3,424 69,324 9,970 6,912 1,533 704 20,673 931,045

2013 ..................... 2,655,599 825 67,385 1,957 6,256 2,860 788 29,478 886,731

2012 - Dec ........... 2,610,272 3,425 67,220 13,448 6,858 3,215 432 20,169 998,659

2013 - Jan ............ 2,618,654 3,425 66,158 13,917 6,772 3,976 557 19,097 923,886

Feb ........... 2,611,958 3,425 67,523 13,890 6,690 3,979 597 21,516 995,517

Mar........... 2,613,914 3,425 68,363 12,681 6,605 3,032 592 19,390 997,902

Apr............ 2,630,299 3,425 67,800 13,221 6,506 3,203 630 20,521 1,004,446

May .......... 2,625,157 3,425 60,464 12,317 6,426 3,353 701 33,264 970,298

June ......... 2,672,229 3,425 69,175 9,332 6,500 3,415 515 28,951 985,291

July........... 2,668,964 3,425 68,283 8,018 6,416 3,845 606 26,646 929,127

Aug........... 2,660,513 3,425 60,152 4,815 6,336 2,969 506 30,029 882,471

Sept.......... 2,655,599 825 67,385 1,957 6,256 2,860 788 29,478 886,731

Oct............ 2,646,434 825 73,472 12,589 6,178 2,488 678 27,655 1,102,460

Nov........... 2,636,662 825 67,127 11,386 6,113 3,204 447 30,178 1,096,078

Dec........... 2,674,490 826 74,882 10,020 6,179 4,350 455 27,845 1,091,736

 

 

Note.—Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. 

TABLE FD-3.—Government Account Series

[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Statement of the Public Debt of the United States”] 

End of fiscal 

year or month 

Total 

(1) 

Airport and 

Airway 

Trust Fund 

(2) 

Deposit 

Insurance 

Fund 

(3) 

Employees

Life 

Insurance 

Fund 

(4) 

Exchange 

Stabilization 

Fund 

(5) 

Federal 

Disability 

Insurance 

Trust Fund 

(6) 

Federal 

employees 

retirement 

funds 

(7) 

Federal 

Hospital 

Insurance 

Trust Fund 

(8) 

Federal 

Housing 

Administration 

(9) 

 

2009 .................. 4,454,316 7,829 16,076 36,146 18,615 207,932 757,656 309,702 10,668

2010 .................. 4,645,280 7,045 37,441 37,605 20,436 187,222 785,988 279,475 4,194

2011 .................. 4,793,916 8,641 34,926 39,678 22,721 161,965 811,768 245,939 4,160

2012 .................. 4,939,455 10,245 35,248 41,250 22,680 132,345 836,336 228,292 2,777

2013 .................. 4,803,100 11,808 36,864 41,951 22,669 100,791 731,125 206,010 3

 

2012 - Dec ........ 4,999,647 10,329 37,086 41,160 22,679 122,802 815,965 219,979 5,949

2013 - Jan ......... 4,943,694 10,570 36,883 41,176 22,680 120,655 828,595 219,545 7,148

Feb ........ 5,008,104 10,912 36,805 41,460 22,677 117,261 832,316 213,006 8,572

Mar........ 4,998,995 11,525 35,554 41,500 22,678 114,965 828,544 208,549 9,776

Apr......... 5,032,189 12,247 38,374 41,507 22,679 114,848 824,127 217,368 10,988

May ....... 4,958,796 12,112 37,639 41,739 22,673 111,509 800,609 204,701 12,409

June ...... 4,972,693 11,699 31,972 41,781 22,673 111,225 744,014 216,653 13,843

July........ 4,901,566 11,451 32,844 41,783 22,674 107,700 743,967 210,013 15,804

Aug........ 4,809,725 11,550 32,712 41,575 22,669 103,821 731,172 197,327 17,683

Sept....... 4,803,100 11,808 36,864 41,951 22,669 100,791 731,125 206,010 3

Oct......... 5,125,910 12,435 36,930 41,991 22,671 96,175 840,669 202,257 3

Nov........ 5,092,114 13,063 37,608 42,133 22,666 92,283 836,390 195,948 3

Dec........ 5,152,908 12,650 40,682 42,145 22,667 90,723 848,005 205,250 3

 
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TABLE FD-4.—Interest-Bearing Securities Issued by Government Agencies

[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government”] 

End of fiscal 

year or month 

Total 

outstanding 

(1) 

Department of

Housing and 

Urban 

Development 

Federal Housing 

Administration 

(2) 

Architect 

of the 

Capitol 

(3) 

Other 

independent 

Tennessee 

Valley Authority 

(4) 

National Archives 

and Records 

Administration 

(5) 

Other/Federal 

Communications 

Commission 

(6) 

 

2009 ............................ 23,203 33 144 22,834 193 *

2010 ............................ 23,974 29 139 23,627 180 *

2011 ............................ 24,988 29 133 24,660 166 *

2012 ............................ 24,399 19 128 24,103 151 *

2013 ............................ 25,103 19 130 24,821 134 *

 

2012 - Dec .................. 24,884 19 130 24,585 151 *

2013 - Jan ................... 24,982 19 131 24,682 151 *

Feb .................. 24,763 19 124 24,471 151 *

Mar.................. 24,631 19 124 24,345 142 *

Apr................... 24,677 19 125 24,391 142 *

May ................. 24,774 19 126 24,487 142 *

June ................ 24,967 19 127 24,678 142 *

July.................. 25,131 19 128 24,842 142 *

Aug.................. 24,932 19 128 24,651 134 *

Sept................. 25,103 19 130 24,821 134 *

Oct................... 25,113 19 131 24,830 134 *

Nov.................. 24,667 19 131 24,384 134 *

Dec.................. 24,492 19 132 24,207 134 *

 

 

Note.—Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. * Less than $500,000. 
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TABLE FD-5.—Maturity Distribution and Average Length of Marketable 

Interest-Bearing Public Debt Held by Private Investors

[In millions of dollars. Source: Office of Debt Management, Office of the Under Secretary for Domestic Finance] 

End of fiscal 

year or month 

Amount 

outstanding 

privately held 

(1) 

Maturity classes 

Within 

1 year 

(2) 

1-5

years 

(3) 

5-10

years 

(4) 

 10-20

 years 

 (5) 

 20 years 

 or more 

 (6) 

Average length

(months) 

(7) 

2009 ............................... 6,228,565 2,604,676 2,074,723 994,688 350,550 203,928 49

2010 ............................... 7,676,335 2,479,518 2,955,561 1,529,283 340,861 371,112 57

2011 ............................... 7,951,366 2,503,926 3,084,882 1,543,847 309,151 509,559 60

2012 ............................... 9,039,954 2,896,780 3,851,873 1,487,726 270,921 532,654 55

2013 ............................... 9,518,102 2,939,037 4,134,968 1,647,954 230,758 565,384 55

 

2012 - Dec...................... 9,373,556 2,932,843 4,124,101 1,516,995 261,723 537,895 54

2013 - Jan ...................... 9,391,764 2,944,052 4,125,151 1,523,751 259,977 538,834 54

Feb ..................... 9,540,293 3,088,899 4,128,157 1,520,833 251,891 550,513 54

Mar ..................... 9,531,585 3,140,173 4,072,625 1,518,590 250,764 549,433 53

Apr...................... 9,566,751 3,054,099 4,146,448 1,566,604 249,491 550,108 54

May..................... 9,501,911 2,978,685 4,137,715 1,583,519 247,762 554,229 54

June.................... 9,394,294 2,952,585 4,066,202 1,566,245 246,724 562,539 55

July ..................... 9,495,318 2,949,386 4,126,062 1,612,954 245,489 561,427 55

Aug ..................... 9,492,159 3,034,960 4,062,450 1,598,970 231,820 563,958 54

Sept.................... 9,518,102 2,939,037 4,134,968 1,647,954 230,758 565,384 55

Oct...................... 9,562,172 2,969,441 4,127,631 1,663,688 230,610 570,803 54

Nov ..................... 9,548,526 3,055,713 4,057,019 1,633,795 228,844 573,155 54

Dec ..................... 9,645,574 3,039,316 4,134,538 1,671,970 227,589 572,162 54

 

Note.—Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. 
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TABLE FD-6.—Debt Subject to Statutory Limit

[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Statement of the Public Debt of the United States”] 

End of fiscal 

year or month 

Statutory debt 

limit 

(1) 

Debt subject to limit Securities outstanding Securities

 not subject

 to limit 

 (7) 

Total 

(2) 

Public debt 

(3) 

Other debt 1 

(4) 

Public debt 

(5) 

Other debt 

(6) 

 

2009 ................................................ 12,104,000 11,853,434 11,853,420 14 11,909,829 14 56,408

2010 ................................................ 14,294,000 13,510,840 13,510,829 10 13,561,623 10 50,794

2011 ................................................ 15,194,000 14,746,553 14,746,543 10 14,790,340 10 43,797

2012 ................................................ 16,394,000 16,027,021 16,027,021 - 16,066,241 - 39,221

2013 ................................................ 16,699,421 16,699,396 16,699,396 - 16,738,184 - 38,787

 

2012 - Dec.............................. 16,394,000 16,393,975 16,393,975 - 16,432,730 - 38,756

2013 - Jan .............................. 16,394,000 16,393,975 16,393,975 - 16,433,792 - 39,818

Feb2 ............................ - 16,647,907 16,647,907 - 16,687,289 - 39,383

Mar2 ............................ - 16,732,270 16,732,270 - 16,771,379 - 39,110

Apr2............................. - 16,790,780 16,790,780 - 16,828,845 - 38,067

May............................. 16,699,421 16,699,396 16,699,396 - 16,738,822 - 39,427

June............................ 16,699,421 16,699,396 16,699,396 - 16,738,320 - 38,925

July ............................. 16,699,421 16,699,396 16,699,396 - 16,738,599 - 39,203

Aug ............................. 16,699,421 16,699,396 16,699,396 - 16,738,650 - 39,254

Sept............................ 16,699,421 16,699,396 16,699,396 - 16,738,184 - 38,787

Oct3............................. - 17,108,378 17,108,378 - 17,156,117 - 47,739

Nov3............................ - 17,168,987 17,168,987 - 17,217,152 - 48,165

Dec3............................ - 17,303,558 17,303,558 - 17,351,971 - 48,413

 

1 Consists of guaranteed debt issued by the Federal Housing Administration. 

2 Pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 310(b). By Act of February 4, 2013, Public Law 113-3, the Statutory Debt 

Limit has been suspended and shall not apply for the period beginning February 4, 2013 and 

ending on May 18, 2013. 

3 Pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 310(b). By The Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014, Public 

Law 113-46, the Statutory Debt Limit has been suspended and shall not apply for 

the period beginning October 17, 2013 and ending on February 7, 2014. 
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TABLE FD-7.—Treasury Holdings of Securities Issued 

by Government Corporations and Other Agencies

[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government”] 

End of fiscal 

year or month 

Total 

(1) 

Department of Agriculture 

Farm-Service 

Agency 

(2) 

Rural Utilities 

Service 

(3) 

Rural Housing

and Community 

Development 

Service 

(4) 

Rural Business 

and Cooperative 

Development 

Service 

(5) 

Foreign 

Agricultural 

Service 

(6) 

 

2009 ................................................ 747,566 11,617 26,074 16,675 481 778

2010 ................................................ 881,890 11,284 25,098 18,534 522 1,160

2011 ................................................ 937,923 9,349 24,883 19,438 523 1,163

2012 ................................................ 979,021 9,009 24,759 20,523 495 1,001

2013 ................................................ 1,115,182 12,135 26,069 22,111 554 908

 

2012 - Dec ............................. 1,070,328 19,641 25,228 20,970 509 1,001

2013 - Jan .............................. 1,071,958 12,150 25,360 21,107 515 1,001

Feb ............................. 1,081,368 12,040 25,707 21,373 519 1,001

Mar............................. 1,085,168 11,961 25,985 21,590 523 1,001

Apr.............................. 1,079,533 11,584 25,048 21,462 506 1,001

May ............................ 1,086,192 11,079 25,162 21,318 508 1,001

June ........................... 1,138,206 11,080 25,336 21,430 510 1,001

July............................. 1,132,832 11,371 25,336 21,430 509 1,001

Aug............................. 1,110,241 10,848 25,874 22,062 542 907

Sept............................ 1,115,182 12,135 26,069 22,111 554 908

Oct.............................. 1,140,285 17,388 26,155 22,184 557 908

Nov............................. 1,143,489 20,058 26,286 22,323 566 908

Dec............................. 1,155,980 13,289 26,436 22,467 572 908

 

 Department 

of Energy 

Department of Housing 

and Urban Development 

Department 

of the Treasury 

End of fiscal 

year or month 

Department of 

Education 

(7) 

Bonneville Power 

Administration 

(8) 

Federal Housing 

Administration 

(9) 

Other Housing 

programs 

(10) 

Federal 

Financing Bank 

(11) 

 

2009 ................................................ 234,918 2,130 4,420 5 47,107

2010 ................................................ 373,717 2,513 4,749 21 46,809

2011 ................................................ 546,321 2,943 6,032 58 45,257

2012 ................................................ 714,368 3,421 11,527 40 57,134

2013 ................................................ 851,295 3,885 25,940 139 63,061

 

2012 - Dec ............................. 799,329 3,506 11,527 40 58,790

2013 - Jan.............................. 803,837 3,615 11,527 70 59,102

Feb............................. 808,681 3,648 11,527 70 59,779

Mar............................. 808,681 3,701 11,527 68 60,442

Apr ............................. 820,528 3,769 11,527 68 60,787

May ............................ 826,789 3,817 11,527 68 61,214

June ........................... 880,835 3,890 11,527 68 61,647

July............................. 872,629 3,915 11,527 133 62,680

Aug............................. 861,072 3,994 11,527 139 62,927

Sept............................ 851,295 3,885 25,940 139 63,061

Oct ............................. 877,281 4,025 25,940 139 54,955

Nov............................. 877,281 4,040 25,940 139 55,271

Dec............................. 899,477 4,065 25,940 139 55,354

 
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TABLE FD-7.—Treasury Holdings of Securities Issued by Government 

Corporations and Other Agencies, con. 

[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government”] 

End of fiscal 

year or month 

Export-Import 

Bank of the 

United States 

(12) 

Railroad

Retirement 

Board 

(13) 

Small Business 

Administration 

(14) 

Other 

(15) 

 

2009 ...................................... 3,805 3,359 10,873 385,323

2010 ...................................... 7,254 3,481 11,752 374,997

2011 ...................................... 8,279 3,484 11,190 259,006

2012 ...................................... 11,301 3,402 7,920 114,117

2013 ...................................... 18,102 3,587 8,088 79,308

 

2012 - Dec ............................ 13,495 4,400 8,073 103,816

2013 - Jan ............................. 13,818 4,742 9,081 106,032

Feb ............................ 13,953 5,010 9,081 108,978

Mar............................ 14,964 5,354 9,081 110,288

Apr............................. 15,788 5,699 8,522 93,243

May ........................... 16,194 6,005 8,522 92,988

June .......................... 16,381 2,606 8,541 93,354

July............................ 18,121 2,952 8,541 92,687

Aug............................ 18,694 3,246 8,541 79,867

Sept........................... 18,102 3,587 8,088 79,308

Oct............................. 18,246 3,937 8,391 80,179

Nov............................ 18,456 4,217 8,391 79,614

Dec............................ 18,957 4,568 8,391 75,417

 

Note.—For the Department of Housing and Urban Development, other HUD Housing 

Programs were reclassified from “Other” to “Other Housing Programs” for fiscal year 2009 

through the current fiscal year to date. 

Note.—Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. 
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March 2014 

INTRODUCTION: Bureau of the Fiscal Service Operations 

Chapter 31 of Title 31 of the United States Code allows 

the Secretary of Treasury to borrow money by issuing 

Treasury securities. The Secretary determines the terms and 

conditions of issue, conversion, maturity, payment, and 

interest rate. New issues of Treasury notes mature in 2 to 10 

years. Bonds mature in more than 10 years from the issue 

date. Each outstanding marketable security is listed in the 

“Monthly Statement of the Public Debt of the United States.” 

The information in this section of the “Treasury Bulletin” 

pertains only to marketable Treasury securities. 

The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a new bureau within 

the Treasury Department, formed on October 7, 2012, from 

the consolidation of the Financial Management Service and 

the Bureau of the Public Debt. Our mission is to promote the 

financial integrity and operational efficiency of the U.S. 

government through exceptional accounting, financing, 

collections, payments, and shared services. As one bureau, 

the organization is better positioned to help transform 

financial management and the delivery of shared services in 

the federal government. The bureau will be a valued partner 

for agencies as they work to strengthen their own financial 

management or as they look for a quality service provider 

who can allow them to focus on their missions. 

Table PDO-1 presents the results of weekly auctions of 4-, 

13-, and 26-week bills. Treasury bills mature each Thursday. 

Issues of 4- and 13-week bills are reopenings of 26-week 

bills. High yields on accepted tenders and the dollar value of 

total bids are presented, with the dollar value of awards made 

on both competitive and noncompetitive bases. 

To encourage the participation of individuals and smaller 

institutions, Treasury accepts noncompetitive tenders of up to 

$5 million for bills and $5 million for notes and bonds in each 

auction of securities. 

Table PDO-2 lists the results of auctions of marketable 

securities, other than weekly bills, in chronological order over 

the past 2 years. Issues of cash management bills also are 

presented. 

Note: Cash management bills identified below are issued 

as part of the Supplementary Financing Program (SFP). For 

more details about the SFP, visit www.treasury.gov/press/ 

releases/hp1144.htm or call 202-622-2960. 

TREASURY FINANCING: OCTOBER-DECEMBER 

[Source: Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Division of Financing Operations]

O C T O B E R 

Cash Management Bills 

On September 30, 2013, Treasury announced it would 

auction $20,000 million of 7-day bills. They were issued 

October 3 and matured October 10. The issue was to raise 

new cash. Treasury auctioned the bills on October 2. Tenders 

totaled $87,467 million; Treasury accepted $20,001 million. 

The high bank discount rate was 0.030 percent. 

On October 8, Treasury announced it would auction 

$35,000 million of 5-day bills. They were issued October 10 

and matured October 15. The issue was to raise new cash. 

Treasury auctioned the bills on October 9. Tenders totaled 

$99,540 million; Treasury accepted $35,001 million. The high 

bank discount rate was 0.300 percent. 

On October 15, Treasury announced it would auction 

$26,000 million of 189-day bills. They were issued October 

17 and matured April 24, 2014. The issue was to raise new 

cash. Treasury auctioned the bills on October 16. Tenders 

totaled $99,664 million; Treasury accepted $26,000 million. 

The high bank discount rate was 0.135 percent. 

Auction of 3-Year Notes 

On October 3, 2013, Treasury announced it would auction 

$30,000 million of 3-year notes. The issue was to refund 

$32,280 million of securities maturing October 15 and to raise 

new cash of approximately $31,720 million. 

The 3-year notes of Series AR-2016 were dated and issued 

October 15. They are due October 15, 2016, with interest 

payable on April 15 and October 15 until maturity. Treasury 

set an interest rate of 0-5/8 percent after determining which 

tenders were accepted on a yield auction basis. 

Treasury received tenders for the notes before 12:00 noon 

eastern time (e.t.) for noncompetitive tenders and before 1:00 

p.m. e.t. for competitive tenders on October 8. Tenders totaled 

$91,436 million; Treasury accepted $30,000 million. All 

noncompetitive and successful competitive bidders were 

allotted securities at the high yield of 0.710 percent with an 

equivalent price of $99.748139. Treasury accepted in full all 

competitive tenders at yields lower than 0.710 percent. 

Tenders at the high yield were allotted 39.11 percent. The 
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median yield was 0.684 percent, and the low yield was 0.600 

percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $23 million. 

Competitive tenders accepted from private investors totaled 

$29,867 million. The minimum par amount required for 

Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal 

Securities (STRIPS) of notes of Series AR-2016 is $100. 

Auction of 9-Year 10-Month 2-1/2 Percent Notes 

On October 3, 2013, Treasury announced it would auction 

$21,000 million of 9-year 10-month 2-1/2 percent notes. The 

issue was to refund $32,280 million of securities maturing 

October 15 and to raise new cash of approximately $31,720 

million. 

The 9-year 10-month notes of Series E-2023 were dated 

August 15 and issued October 15. They are due August 15, 

2023, with interest payable on February 15 and August 15 

until maturity. 

Treasury received tenders for the notes before 12:00 

noon e.t. for noncompetitive tenders and before 1:00 p.m. 

e.t. for competitive tenders on October 9. Tenders totaled 

$54,200 million; Treasury accepted $21,000 million. All 

noncom-petitive and successful competitive bidders were 

allotted securities at the high yield of 2.657 percent with an 

equivalent price of $98.645362. Treasury accepted in full all 

competitive tenders at yields lower than 2.657 percent. 

Tenders at the high yield were allotted 16.83 percent. The 

median yield was 2.623 percent, and the low yield was 2.535 

percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $17 million. Competitive tenders accepted from private investors totaled 

$20,973 million. Accrued interest of $4.14402 per $1,000 

must be paid for the period from August 15 to October 15. 

The minimum par amount required for STRIPS of notes of 

Series E-2023 is $100. 

Auction of 29-Year 10-Month 3-5/8 Percent Bonds 

On October 3, 2013, Treasury announced it would auction 

$13,000 million of 29-year 10-month 3-5/8 percent bonds. 

The issue was to refund $32,280 million of securities 

maturing October 15 and to raise new cash of approximately 

$31,720 million. 

The 29-year 10-month bonds of August 2043 were dated 

August 15 and issued October 15. They are due August 15, 

2043, with interest payable on February 15 and August 15 

until maturity. 

Treasury received tenders for the bonds before 12:00 noon 

e.t. for noncompetitive tenders and before 1:00 p.m. e.t. for 

competitive tenders on October 10. Tenders totaled $34,337 

million; Treasury accepted $13,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful competitive bidders were allotted 

securities at the high yield of 3.758 percent with an equivalent 

price of $97.618838. Treasury accepted in full all competitive 

tenders at yields lower than 3.758 percent. Tenders at the high 

yield were allotted 78.39 percent. The median yield was 3.740 

percent, and the low yield was 3.680 percent. Noncompetitive 

tenders totaled $2 million. Competitive tenders accepted from 

private investors totaled $12,988 million. Accrued interest of 

$6.00883 per $1,000 must be paid for the period from August 

15 to October 15. The minimum par amount required for 

STRIPS of bonds of August 2043 is $100. 

52-Week Bills 

On October 10, 2013, Treasury announced it would 

auction $22,000 million of 364-day Treasury bills. They were 

issued October 17, and will mature October 16, 2014. The 

issue was to refund $119,994 million of all maturing bills and 

to raise new cash of approximately $13,006 million. Treasury 

auctioned the bills on October 16. Tenders totaled $90,562 

million; Treasury accepted $22,000 million. That included 

$119 million of noncompetitive tenders from the public. The 

high bank discount rate was 0.160 percent. 

Auction of 29-Year 4-Month 0-5/8 Percent Treasury 

Inflation-Protected Security (TIPS) 

On October 17, 2013, Treasury announced it would 

auction $7,000 million of 29-year 4-month 0-5/8 percent 

TIPS. The issue was to refund $61,394 million of securities 

maturing October 31 and to raise new cash of approximately 

$41,606 million. 

The 29-year 4-month TIPS of February 2043 were dated 

August 15 and issued October 31. They are due February 15, 

2043, with interest payable on February 15 and August 15 

until maturity. 

Treasury received tenders for the TIPS before 12:00 noon 

e.t. for noncompetitive tenders and before 1:00 p.m. e.t. for 

competitive tenders on October 24. Tenders totaled $19,303 

million; Treasury accepted $7,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful competitive bidders were allotted 

securities at the high yield of 1.330 percent with an equivalent 

adjusted price of $84.370207. Treasury accepted in full all 

competitive tenders at yields lower than 1.330 percent. 

Tenders at the high yield were allotted 76.13 percent. The 

median yield was 1.278 percent, and the low yield was 1.200 

percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $10 million. Competitive tenders accepted from private investors totaled $6,990 

million. Adjusted accrued interest of $1.33025 per $1,000 

must be paid for the period from August 15 to October 31. 

Both the unadjusted price of $82.942762 and the unadjusted 

accrued interest of $1.30774 were adjusted by an index ratio 

of 1.01721, for the period from August 15 to October 31. The 

minimum par amount required for STRIPS of TIPS of 

February 2043 is $100. 

 
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Auction of 2-Year Notes 

On October 24, 2013, Treasury announced it would 

auction $32,000 million of 2-year notes. The issue was to 

refund $61,394 million of securities maturing October 31 and 

to raise new cash of approximately $41,606 million. 

The 2-year notes of Series AS-2015 were dated and issued 

October 31. They are due October 31, 2015, with interest 

payable on April 30 and October 31 until maturity. Treasury 

set an interest rate of 0-1/4 percent after determining which 

tenders were accepted on a yield auction basis. 

Treasury received tenders for the notes before 12:00 noon 

e.t. for noncompetitive tenders and before 1:00 p.m. e.t. for 

competitive tenders on October 28. Tenders totaled $106,090 

million; Treasury accepted $32,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful competitive bidders were allotted 

securities at the high yield of 0.323 percent with an equivalent 

price of $99.854588. Treasury accepted in full all competitive 

tenders at yields lower than 0.323 percent. Tenders at the high 

yield were allotted 13.56 percent. The median yield was 0.305 

percent, and the low yield was 0.250 percent. Noncompetitive 

tenders totaled $141 million. Competitive tenders accepted 

from private investors totaled $31,749 million. The minimum 

par amount required for STRIPS of notes of Series AS-2015 is 

$100. 

Auction of 5-Year Notes 

On October 24, 2013, Treasury announced it would 

auction $35,000 million of 5-year notes. The issue was to 

refund $61,394 million of securities maturing October 31 and 

to raise new cash of approximately $41,606 million. 

The 5-year notes of Series AE-2018 were dated and issued 

October 31. They are due October 31, 2018, with interest 

payable on April 30 and October 31 until maturity. Treasury 

set an interest rate of 1-1/4 percent after determining which 

tenders were accepted on a yield auction basis. 

Treasury received tenders for the notes before 12:00 noon 

e.t. for noncompetitive tenders and before 1:00 p.m. e.t. for 

competitive tenders on October 29. Tenders totaled $92,669 

million; Treasury accepted $35,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful competitive bidders were allotted 

securities at the high yield of 1.300 percent with an equivalent 

price of $99.758710. Treasury accepted in full all competitive 

tenders at yields lower than 1.300 percent. Tenders at the high 

yield were allotted 75.35 percent. The median yield was 1.267 

percent, and the low yield was 1.200 percent. Noncompetitive 

tenders totaled $23 million. Competitive tenders accepted 

from private investors totaled $34,962 million. The minimum 

par amount required for STRIPS of notes of Series AE-2018 

is $100. 

Auction of 7-Year Notes 

On October 24, 2013, Treasury announced it would 

auction $29,000 million of 7-year notes. The issue was to 

refund $61,394 million of securities maturing October 31 and 

to raise new cash of approximately $41,606 million. 

The 7-year notes of Series R-2020 were dated and issued 

October 31. They are due October 31, 2020, with interest 

payable on April 30 and October 31 until maturity. Treasury 

set an interest rate of 1-3/4 percent after determining which 

tenders were accepted on a yield auction basis. 

Treasury received tenders for the notes before 12:00 noon 

e.t. for noncompetitive tenders and before 1:00 p.m. e.t. for 

competitive tenders on October 30. Tenders totaled $77,133 

million; Treasury accepted $29,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful competitive bidders were allotted 

securities at the high yield of 1.870 percent with an equivalent 

price of $99.216081. Treasury accepted in full all competitive 

tenders at yields lower than 1.870 percent. Tenders at the high 

yield were allotted 69.67 percent. The median yield was 1.837 

percent, and the low yield was 1.750 percent. Noncompetitive 

tenders totaled $10 million. Competitive tenders accepted 

from private investors totaled $28,986 million. The minimum 

par amount required for STRIPS of notes of Series R-2020 is 

$100. 

N O V E M B E R 

52-Week Bills 

On November 7, 2013, Treasury announced it would 

auction $25,000 million of 364-day Treasury bills. They were 

issued November 14, and will mature November 13, 2014. 

The issue was to refund $98,995 million of all maturing bills 

and to raise new cash of approximately $33,005 million. 

Treasury auctioned the bills on November 13. Tenders totaled 

$110,917 million; Treasury accepted $25,001 million. That 

included $165 million of noncompetitive tenders from the 

public. The high bank discount rate was 0.135 percent. 

November Quarterly Financing 

On November 6, 2013, Treasury announced it would 

auction $30,000 million of 3-year notes, $24,000 million of 

10-year notes, and $16,000 million of 30-year bonds to refund 

$63,489 million of securities maturing November 15 and to 

raise new cash of approximately $6,511 million. 

The 3-year notes of Series AS-2016 were dated and issued 

November 15. They are due November 15, 2016, with interest 

payable on May 15 and November 15 until maturity. Treasury 

set an interest rate of 0-5/8 percent after determining which 

tenders were accepted on a yield auction basis. 
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Treasury received tenders for the notes before 12:00 noon 

e.t. for noncompetitive tenders and before 1:00 p.m. e.t. for 

competitive tenders on November 12. Tenders totaled 

$103,673 million; Treasury accepted $30,000 million. All 

noncompetitive and successful competitive bidders were 

allotted securities at the high yield of 0.644 percent with an 

equivalent price of $99.943637. Treasury accepted in full all 

competitive tenders at yields lower than 0.644 percent. 

Tenders at the high yield were allotted 85.86 percent. The 

median yield was 0.621 percent, and the low yield was 0.550 

percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $33 million. 

Competitive tenders accepted from private investors totaled 

$29,867 million. The minimum par amount required for 

STRIPS of notes of Series AS-2016 is $100. 

The 10-year notes of Series F-2023 were dated and issued 

November 15. They are due November 15, 2023, with interest 

payable on May 15 and November 15 until maturity. Treasury 

set an interest rate of 2-3/4 percent after determining which 

tenders were accepted on a yield auction basis. 

Treasury received tenders for the notes before 12:00 noon 

e.t. for noncompetitive tenders and before 1:00 p.m. e.t. for 

competitive tenders on November 13. Tenders totaled $64,694 

million; Treasury accepted $24,000 million. All 

noncompetitive and successful competitive bidders were 

allotted securities at the high yield of 2.750 percent with an 

equivalent price of $100.000000. Treasury accepted in full all 

competitive tenders at yields lower than 2.750 percent. 

Tenders at the high yield were allotted 62.67 percent. The 

median yield was 2.719 percent, and the low yield was 2.650 

percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $47 million. 

Competitive tenders accepted from private investors totaled 

$23,954 million. The minimum par amount required for 

STRIPS of notes of Series F-2023 is $100. 

The 30-year bonds of November 2043 were dated and 

issued November 15. They are due November 15, 2043, with 

interest payable on May 15 and November 15 until maturity. 

Treasury set an interest rate of 3-3/4 percent after determining 

which tenders were accepted on a yield auction basis. 

Treasury received tenders for the bonds before 12:00 noon 

e.t. for noncompetitive tenders and before 1:00 p.m. e.t. for 

competitive tenders on November 14. Tenders totaled $34,628 

million; Treasury accepted $16,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful competitive bidders were allotted 

securities at the high yield of 3.810 percent with an equivalent 

price of $98.932768. Treasury accepted in full all competitive 

tenders at yields lower than 3.810 percent. Tenders at the high 

yield were allotted 73.59 percent. The median yield was 3.758 

percent, and the low yield was 3.700 percent. Noncompetitive 

tenders totaled $15 million. Competitive tenders accepted 

from private investors totaled $15,985 million. The minimum 

par amount required for STRIPS of bonds of November 2043 

is $100. 

Auction of 9-Year 8-Month 0-3/8 Percent TIPS 

On November 14, 2013, Treasury announced it would 

auction $13,000 million of 9-year 8-month 0-3/8 percent 

TIPS. The issue was to raise new cash of approximately 

$13,000 million. 

The 9-year 8-month TIPS of Series D-2023 were dated 

July 15 and issued November 29. They are due July 15, 2023, 

with interest payable on January 15 and July 15 until maturity. 

Treasury received tenders for the TIPS before 12:00 noon 

e.t. for noncompetitive tenders and before 1:00 p.m. e.t. for 

competitive tenders on November 21. Tenders totaled $33,709 

million; Treasury accepted $13,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful competitive bidders were allotted 

securities at the high yield of 0.560 percent with an equivalent 

adjusted price of $98.864759. Treasury accepted in full all 

competitive tenders at yields lower than 0.560 percent. 

Tenders at the high yield were allotted 96.89 percent. The 

median yield was 0.540 percent, and the low yield was 0.465 

percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $18 million. 

Competitive tenders accepted from private investors totaled 

$12,982 million. Adjusted accrued interest of $1.40453 per 

$1,000 must be paid for the period from July 15 to November 

29. Both the unadjusted price of $98.268271 and the 

unadjusted accrued interest of $1.39606 were adjusted by an 

index ratio of 1.00607, for the period from July 15 to 

November 29. The minimum par amount required for STRIPS 

of TIPS of Series D-2023 is $100. 

D E C E M B E R 

Auction of 2-Year Notes 

On November 21, 2013, Treasury announced it would 

auction $32,000 million of 2-year notes. The issue was to 

refund $64,404 million of securities maturing November 30 

and to raise new cash of approximately $31,596 million. 

The 2-year notes of Series AT-2015 were dated November 

30 and issued December 2. They are due November 30, 2015, 

with interest payable on May 31 and November 30 until 

maturity. Treasury set an interest rate of 0-1/4 percent after 

determining which tenders were accepted on a yield auction 

basis. 

Treasury received tenders for the notes before 12:00 noon 

e.t. for noncompetitive tenders and before 1:00 p.m. e.t. for 

competitive tenders on November 25. Tenders totaled 

$113,177 million; Treasury accepted $32,000 million. All 

noncompetitive and successful competitive bidders were 

allotted securities at the high yield of 0.300 percent with an 

equivalent price of $99.900644. Treasury accepted in full all 

competitive tenders at yields lower than 0.300 percent. 

Tenders at the high yield were allotted 16.64 percent. The 

median yield was 0.280 percent, and the low yield was 0.250 

percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $147 million. 
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Competitive tenders accepted from private investors totaled 

$31,743 million. Accrued interest of $0.01374 per $1,000 

must be paid for the period from November 30 to December 

2. The minimum par amount required for STRIPS of notes of 

Series AT-2015 is $100. 

Auction of 5-Year Notes 

On November 21, 2013, Treasury announced it would 

auction $35,000 million of 5-year notes. The issue was to 

refund $64,404 million of securities maturing November 30 

and to raise new cash of approximately $31,596 million. 

The 5-year notes of Series AF-2018 were dated November 

30 and issued December 2. They are due November 30, 2018, 

with interest payable on May 31 and November 30 until 

maturity. Treasury set an interest rate of 1-1/4 percent after 

determining which tenders were accepted on a yield auction 

basis. 

Treasury received tenders for the notes before 12:00 noon 

e.t. for noncompetitive tenders and before 1:00 p.m. e.t. for 

competitive tenders on November 26. Tenders totaled $91,252 

million; Treasury accepted $35,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful competitive bidders were allotted 

securities at the high yield of 1.340 percent with an equivalent 

price of $99.566562. Treasury accepted in full all competitive 

tenders at yields lower than 1.340 percent. Tenders at the high 

yield were allotted 67.41 percent. The median yield was 1.308 

percent, and the low yield was 1.270 percent. Noncompetitive 

tenders totaled $44 million. Competitive tenders accepted 

from private investors totaled $34,951 million. Accrued 

interest of $0.06868 per $1,000 must be paid for the period 

from November 30 to December 2. The minimum par amount 

required for STRIPS of notes of Series AF-2018 is $100. 

Auction of 7-Year Notes 

On November 21, 2013, Treasury announced it would 

auction $29,000 million of 7-year notes. The issue was to 

refund $64,404 million of securities maturing November 30 

and to raise new cash of approximately $31,596 million. 

The 7-year notes of Series S-2020 were dated November 

30 and issued December 2. They are due November 30, 2020, 

with interest payable on May 31 and November 30 until 

maturity. Treasury set an interest rate of 2 percent after 

determining which tenders were accepted on a yield auction 

basis. 

Treasury received tenders for the notes before 11:00 a.m. 

e.t. for noncompetitive tenders and before 11:30 a.m. e.t. for 

competitive tenders on November 27. Tenders totaled $68,491 

million; Treasury accepted $29,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful competitive bidders were allotted 

securities at the high yield of 2.106 percent with an equivalent 

price of $99.313835. Treasury accepted in full all competitive 

tenders at yields lower than 2.106 percent. Tenders at the high 

yield were allotted 31.60 percent. The median yield was 2.059 

percent, and the low yield was 1.995 percent. Noncompetitive 

tenders totaled $10 million. Competitive tenders accepted 

from private investors totaled $28,990 million. Accrued 

interest of $0.10989 per $1,000 must be paid for the period 

from November 30 to December 2. The minimum par amount 

required for STRIPS of notes of Series S-2020 is $100. 

52-Week Bills 

On December 5, 2013, Treasury announced it would 

auction $25,000 million of 364-day Treasury bills. They were 

issued December 12, and will mature December 11, 2014. The 

issue was to refund $125,003 million of all maturing bills and 

to pay down approximately $1,003 million. Treasury 

auctioned the bills on December 10. Tenders totaled $112,034 

million; Treasury accepted $25,000 million. That included 

$137 million of noncompetitive tenders from the public. The 

high bank discount rate was 0.135 percent. 

Auction of 3-Year Notes 

On December 5, 2013, Treasury announced it would 

auction $30,000 million of 3-year notes. The issue was to 

refund $32,468 million of securities maturing December 15 

and to raise new cash of approximately $31,532 million. 

The 3-year notes of Series AT-2016 were dated December 

15 and issued December 16. They are due December 15, 

2016, with interest payable on June 15 and December 15 until 

maturity. Treasury set an interest rate of 0-5/8 percent after 

determining which tenders were accepted on a yield auction 

basis. 

Treasury received tenders for the notes before 12:00 noon 

e.t. for noncompetitive tenders and before 1:00 p.m. e.t. for 

competitive tenders on December 10. Tenders totaled 

$106,583 million; Treasury accepted $30,000 million. All 

noncompetitive and successful competitive bidders were 

allotted securities at the high yield of 0.631 percent with an 

equivalent price of $99.982208. Treasury accepted in full all 

competitive tenders at yields lower than 0.631 percent. 

Tenders at the high yield were allotted 68.71 percent. The 

median yield was 0.610 percent, and the low yield was 0.579 

percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $29 million. 

Competitive tenders accepted from private investors totaled 

$29,871 million. Accrued interest of $0.01717 per $1,000 

must be paid for the period from December 15 to December 

16. The minimum par amount required for STRIPS of notes of 

Series AT-2016 is $100. 

Auction of 9-Year 11-Month 2-3/4 Percent Notes 

On December 5, 2013, Treasury announced it would 

auction $21,000 million of 9-year 11-month 2-3/4 percent 

notes. The issue was to refund $32,468 million of securities 
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maturing December 15 and to raise new cash of approximately $31,532 million. 

The 9-year 11-month notes of Series F-2023 were dated 

November 15 and issued December 16. They are due 

November 15, 2023, with interest payable on May 15 and 

November 15 until maturity. 

Treasury received tenders for the notes before 12:00 noon 

e.t. for noncompetitive tenders and before 1:00 p.m. e.t. for 

competitive tenders on December 11. Tenders totaled $54,722 

million; Treasury accepted $21,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful competitive bidders were allotted 

securities at the high yield of 2.824 percent with an equivalent 

price of $99.361224. Treasury accepted in full all competitive 

tenders at yields lower than 2.824 percent. Tenders at the high 

yield were allotted 74.96 percent. The median yield was 2.783 

percent, and the low yield was 2.735 percent. Noncompetitive 

tenders totaled $34 million. Competitive tenders accepted 

from private investors totaled $20,966 million. Accrued 

interest of $2.35497 per $1,000 must be paid for the period 

from November 15 to December 16. The minimum par 

amount required for STRIPS of notes of Series F-2023 is 

$100. 

Auction of 29-Year 11-Month 3-3/4 Percent Bonds 

On December 5, 2013, Treasury announced it would 

auction $13,000 million of 29-year 11-month 3-3/4 percent 

bonds. The issue was to refund $32,468 million of securities 

maturing December 15 and to raise new cash of 

approximately $31,532 million. 

The 29-year 11-month bonds of November 2043 were 

dated November 15 and issued December 16. They are due 

November 15, 2043, with interest payable on May 15 and 

November 15 until maturity. 

Treasury received tenders for the bonds before 12:00 noon 

e.t. for noncompetitive tenders and before 1:00 p.m. e.t. for 

competitive tenders on December 12. Tenders totaled $30,549 

million; Treasury accepted $13,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful competitive bidders were allotted 

securities at the high yield of 3.900 percent with an equivalent 

price of $97.359944. Treasury accepted in full all competitive 

tenders at yields lower than 3.900 percent. Tenders at the high 

yield were allotted 17.28 percent. The median yield was 3.859 

percent, and the low yield was 3.800 percent. Noncompetitive 

tenders totaled $5 million. Competitive tenders accepted from 

private investors totaled $12,995 million. Accrued interest of 

$3.21133 per $1,000 must be paid for the period from 

November 15 to December 16. The minimum par amount 

required for STRIPS of bonds of November 2043 is $100. 

Auction of 2-Year Notes 

On December 12, 2013, Treasury announced it would 

auction $32,000 million of 2-year notes. The issue was to 

refund $66,175 million of securities maturing December 31 

and to raise new cash of approximately $45,825 million. 

The 2-year notes of Series AU-2015 were dated and issued 

December 31. They are due December 31, 2015, with interest 

payable on June 30 and December 31 until maturity. Treasury 

set an interest rate of 0-1/4 percent after determining which 

tenders were accepted on a yield auction basis. 

Treasury received tenders for the notes before 12:00 noon 

e.t. for noncompetitive tenders and before 1:00 p.m. e.t. for 

competitive tenders on December 17. Tenders totaled 

$120,553 million; Treasury accepted $32,000 million. All 

noncompetitive and successful competitive bidders were 

allotted securities at the high yield of 0.345 percent with an 

equivalent price of $99.810817. Treasury accepted in full all 

competitive tenders at yields lower than 0.345 percent. 

Tenders at the high yield were allotted 70.75 percent. The 

median yield was 0.329 percent, and the low yield was 0.300 

percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $109 million. 

Competitive tenders accepted from private investors totaled 

$31,791 million. The minimum par amount required for 

STRIPS of notes of Series AU-2015 is $100. 

Auction of 5-Year Notes 

On December 12, 2013, Treasury announced it would 

auction $35,000 million of 5-year notes. The issue was to 

refund $66,175 million of securities maturing December 31 

and to raise new cash of approximately $45,825 million. 

The 5-year notes of Series AG-2018 were dated and issued 

December 31. They are due December 31, 2018, with interest 

payable on June 30 and December 31 until maturity. Treasury 

set an interest rate of 1-1/2 percent after determining which 

tenders were accepted on a yield auction basis. 

Treasury received tenders for the notes before 11:00 a.m. 

e.t. for noncompetitive tenders and before 11:30 a.m. e.t. for 

competitive tenders on December 18. Tenders totaled $84,610 

million; Treasury accepted $35,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful competitive bidders were allotted 

securities at the high yield of 1.600 percent with an equivalent 

price of $99.521314. Treasury accepted in full all competitive 

tenders at yields lower than 1.600 percent. Tenders at the high 

yield were allotted 2.21 percent. The median yield was 1.555 

percent, and the low yield was 1.473 percent. Noncompetitive 

tenders totaled $31 million. Competitive tenders accepted 

from private investors totaled $34,969 million. The minimum 

par amount required for STRIPS of notes of Series AG-2018 

is $100. 
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Auction of 7-Year Notes 

On December 12, 2013, Treasury announced it would 

auction $29,000 million of 7-year notes. The issue was to 

refund $66,175 million of securities maturing December 31 

and to raise new cash of approximately $45,825 million. 

The 7-year notes of Series T-2020 were dated and issued 

December 31. They are due December 31, 2020, with interest 

payable on June 30 and December 31 until maturity. Treasury 

set an interest rate of 2-3/8 percent after determining which 

tenders were accepted on a yield auction basis. 

Treasury received tenders for the notes before 12:00 noon 

e.t. for noncompetitive tenders and before 1:00 p.m. e.t. for 

competitive tenders on December 19. Tenders totaled $71,021 

million; Treasury accepted $29,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful competitive bidders were allotted 

securities at the high yield of 2.385 percent with an equivalent 

price of $99.935882. Treasury accepted in full all competitive 

tenders at yields lower than 2.385 percent. Tenders at the high 

yield were allotted 59.56 percent. The median yield was 2.338 

percent, and the low yield was 2.270 percent. Noncompetitive 

tenders totaled $15 million. Competitive tenders accepted 

from private investors totaled $28,985 million. The minimum 

par amount required for STRIPS of notes of Series T-2020 is 

$100. 

Auction of 4-Year 4-Month 0-1/8 Percent TIPS 

On December 12, 2013, Treasury announced it would 

auction $16,000 million of 4-year 4-month 0-1/8 percent 

TIPS. The issue was to refund $66,175 million of securities 

maturing December 31 and to raise new cash of 

approximately $45,825 million. 

The 4-year 4-month TIPS of Series X-2018 were dated 

October 15 and issued December 31. They are due April 15, 

2018, with interest payable on April 15 and October 15 until 

maturity. 

Treasury received tenders for the TIPS before 11:00 a.m. 

e.t. for noncompetitive tenders and before 11:30 a.m. e.t. for 

competitive tenders on December 19. Tenders totaled $40,603 

million; Treasury accepted $16,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful competitive bidders were allotted 

securities at the high yield of -0.375 percent with an 

equivalent adjusted price of $103.227104. Treasury accepted 

in full all competitive tenders at yields lower than -0.375 

percent. Tenders at the high yield were allotted 35.43 percent. 

The median yield was -0.441 percent, and the low yield was 

-0.500 percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $11 million. 

Competitive tenders accepted from private investors totaled 

$15,989 million. Adjusted accrued interest of $0.26717 per 

$1,000 must be paid for the period from October 15 to 

December 31. Both the unadjusted price of $102.163581 and 

the unadjusted accrued interest of $0.26442 were adjusted by 

an index ratio of 1.01041, for the period from October 15 to 

December 31. The minimum par amount required for STRIPS 

of TIPS of Series X-2018 is $100. 
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TABLE PDO-1.—Offerings of Regular Weekly Treasury Bills 

[In millions of dollars. Source: Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Division of Financing Operations] 

 On total competitive bids accepted 

Issue date 

Description of new issue Amounts of bids accepted 

High 

price per 

hundred 

(7) 

High 

discount 

rate 

(percent) 

(8) 

High investment rate 

(percent) 4

(9) 

Maturity date 

(1) 

Number 

of days to 

maturity 1

(2) 

Amount

of bids 

tendered 

(3) 

Total 

amount 2

(4) 

On

competitive

basis 

(5) 

On noncompetitive 

basis 3 

(6) 

Regular weekly: 

(4 week, 13 week, and 26 week) 

 

 2013 – Oct. 03................. 2013 – Oct. 31 28 108,282.4 35,000.2 34,724.3 275.8 99.990667 0.120 0.122

 2014 – Jan. 02 91 114,338.1 25,001.2 24,109.4 541.7 99.997472 0.010 0.010

 Apr. 03 182 116,824.7 25,000.6 24,043.6 381.1 99.979778 0.040 0.041

Oct. 10................. 2013 – Nov. 07 28 82,532.9 30,000.5 29,730.6 269.9 99.972778 0.350 0.355

 2014 – Jan. 09 91 135,668.4 35,000.7 34,503.0 447.8 99.991153 0.035 0.035

 Apr. 10 182 132,021.4 30,000.7 29,042.7 382.0 99.969667 0.060 0.061

Oct. 17................. 2013 – Nov. 14 28 86,525.4 20,000.1 19,777.1 223.0 99.981333 0.240 0.243

 2014 – Jan. 16 91 109,694.1 35,000.8 34,445.8 454.9 99.967139 0.130 0.132

 Apr. 17 182 105,575.0 30,000.5 28,970.4 354.1 99.924167 0.150 0.152

Oct. 24................. 2013 – Nov. 21 28 151,001.9 35,000.9 34,784.4 216.6 99.997667 0.030 0.030

 2014 – Jan. 23 91 141,003.8 35,000.8 34,568.0 432.8 99.991153 0.035 0.035

 Apr. 24 182 133,444.0 30,000.7 28,926.2 328.0 99.964611 0.070 0.071

Oct. 31................. 2013 – Nov. 29 29 170,273.0 45,000.6 44,299.6 213.9 99.995569 0.055 0.056

 2014 – Jan. 30 91 132,143.4 34,001.2 32,791.4 405.3 99.988625 0.045 0.046

 May 01 182 126,617.0 30,000.5 28,795.5 329.1 99.959556 0.080 0.081

Nov. 07 ................ 2013 - Dec. 05 28 175,482.1 45,000.3 44,732.0 268.3 99.996111 0.050 0.051

 2014 – Feb. 06 91 136,633.1 33,001.1 32,373.0 428.1 99.987361 0.050 0.051

 May 08 182 129,009.5 29,000.9 28,165.0 359.9 99.957028 0.085 0.086

Nov.14 ................. 2013 – Dec. 12 28 183,383.2 45,001.1 44,769.6 231.6 99.995333 0.060 0.061

 2014 – Feb. 13 91 150,129.7 33,000.9 32,424.5 476.4 99.981042 0.075 0.076

 May 15 182 129,342.8 29,001.0 28,139.4 385.6 99.951972 0.095 0.096

Nov. 21 ................ 2013 – Dec. 19 28 173,879.6 45,000.5 44,773.6 227.0 99.995333 0.060 0.061

 2014 – Feb. 20 91 128,005.1 32,000.4 31,449.5 450.9 99.979778 0.080 0.081

 May 22 182 123,114.7 28,001.3 27,235.4 389.9 99.949444 0.100 0.101

Nov. 29 ................ 2013 – Dec. 26 27 170,043.0 45,001.0 44,406.9 258.8 99.995125 0.065 0.066

 2014 – Feb. 27 90 137,519.8 32,000.5 30,736.7 489.1 99.980000 0.080 0.081

 May 29 181 117,378.6 28,001.0 26,897.4 352.7 99.947208 0.105 0.107

Dec. 05 ................ 2014 – Jan. 02 28 177,267.2 45,000.8 44,764.5 236.3 99.997667 0.030 0.030

 Mar. 06 91 143,567.5 32,000.4 31,283.6 416.8 99.981042 0.075 0.076

 June 05 182 130,243.3 27,000.3 26,087.7 336.5 99.949444 0.100 0.101

Dec.12 ................. 2014 – Jan. 09 28 157,741.5 40,000.6 39,754.4 246.2 99.998056 0.025 0.025

 Mar. 13 91 138,680.2 32,001.4 31,517.8 483.6 99.982306 0.070 0.071

 June 12 182 125,364.4 27,000.2 26,187.0 337.2 99.951972 0.095 0.096

Dec.19 ................. 2014 – Jan. 16 28 123,826.5 30,000.2 29,741.4 258.9 99.999222 0.010 0.010

 Mar. 20 91 144,783.4 32,000.1 31,450.2 435.0 99.983569 0.065 0.066

 June 19 182 119,819.3 27,000.4 26,235.8 388.6 99.954500 0.090 0.091

Dec. 26 ................ 2014 – Jan. 23 28 100,364.8 20,000.5 19,117.2 242.7 99.999611 0.005 0.005

 Mar. 27 91 127,771.0 32,000.5 30,706.2 470.1 99.982306 0.070 0.071

 June 26 182 115,744.4 27,001.1 25,688.1 336.9 99.954500 0.090 0.091

 

1

 All 4-week and 13-week bills represent additional issues of bills with an original maturity 

of 26 weeks or 52 weeks. Certain 26-week bills represent additional issues of bills with an 

original maturity of 52 weeks. 

2

 Includes amount awarded to the Federal Reserve System. 

3

 Tenders for $5 million or less from any one bidder are accepted in full at the high 

price of accepted competitive bids. All Treasury Marketable auctions are conducted 

in a single-price format as of November 2, 1998. 

4

 Equivalent coupon-issue yield. 
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TABLE PDO-2.—Offerings of Marketable Securities 

Other than Regular Weekly Treasury Bills 

[In millions of dollars. Source: Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Division of Financing Operations] 

Auction date 

Issue date 

(1) 

 Description of securities 1

(2) 

Period to final maturity 

(years, months, days) 2

(3) 

Amount 

tendered 

(4) 

Amount 

accepted 3, 4

(5) 

Accepted yield and

equivalent price 

for notes and 

bonds 

(6) 

 

10/02/13 10/03/13 0.030% bill—10/10/13 7d 87,467 20,001 

10/08/13 10/15/13 0.625% note—10/15/16-AR 3y 91,436 30,000 0.710 - 99.748139 

10/09/13 10/10/13 0.300% bill—10/15/13 3d 99,540 35,001 

10/09/13 10/15/13 2.500% note—08/15/23-E 9y 10m 54,200 21,000 2.657 - 98.645362 

10/10/13 10/15/13 3.625% bond—08/15/43 29y 10m 34,337 13,000 3.758 - 97.618838 

10/16/13 10/17/13 0.135% bill—04/24/14 189d 99,664 26,000 

10/16/13 10/17/13 0.160% bill—10/16/14 364d 90,562 22,000 

10/24/13 10/31/13 0.625% TIPS—02/15/43 29y 4m 19,303 7,000 1.330 - 84.370207 

10/28/13 10/31/13 0.250% note—10/31/15-AS 2y 106,090 32,000 0.323 - 99.854588 

10/29/13 10/31/13 1.250% note—10/31/18-AE 5y 92,669 35,000 1.300 - 99.758710 

10/30/13 10/31/13 1.750% note—10/31/20-R 7y 77,133 29,000 1.870 - 99.216081 

11/12/13 11/15/13 0.625% note—11/15/16-AS 3y 103,673 30,000 0.644 - 99.943637 

11/13/13 11/14/13 0.135% bill—11/13/14 364d 110,917 25,001 

11/13/13 11/15/13 2.750% note—11/15/23-F 10y 64,694 24,000 2.750 - 100.000000 

11/14/13 11/15/13 3.750% bond—11/15/43 30y 34,628 16,000 3.810 - 98.932768 

11/21/13 11/29/13 0.375% TIPS—07/15/23-D 9y 8m 33,709 13,000 0.560 - 98.864759 

11/25/13 12/02/13 0.250% note—11/30/15-AT 2y 113,177 32,000 0.300 - 99.900644 

11/26/13 12/02/13 1.250% note—11/30/18-AF 5y 91,252 35,000 1.340 - 99.566562 

11/27/13 12/02/13 2.000% note—11/30/20-S 7y 68,491 29,000 2.106 - 99.313835 

12/10/13 12/12/13 0.135% bill—12/11/14 364d 112,034 25,000 

12/10/13 12/16/13 0.625% note—12/15/16-AT 3y 106,583 30,000 0.631 - 99.982208 

12/11/13 12/16/13 2.750% note—11/15/23-F 9y 11m 54,722 21,000 2.824 - 99.361224 

12/12/13 12/16/13 3.750% bond—11/15/43 29y 11m 30,549 13,000 3.900 - 97.359944 

12/17/13 12/31/13 0.250% note—12/31/15-AU 2y 120,553 32,000 0.345 - 99.810817 

12/18/13 12/31/13 1.500% note—12/31/18-AG 5y 84,610 35,000 1.600 - 99.521314 

12/19/13 12/31/13 0.125% TIPS—04/15/18-X 4y 4m 40,603 16,000 -0.375 - 103.227104 

12/19/13 12/31/13 2.375% note—12/31/20-T 7y 71,021 29,000 2.385 - 99.935882 

 

 1

 Currently, all issues are sold at auction. For bill issues, the rate shown is the high bank 

discount rate. For note and bond issues, the rate shown is the interest rate. For details of 

bill offerings, see table PDO-1. As of October 1, 1997, all Treasury issues of notes and 

bonds are eligible for STRIPS. 

2

 From date of additional issue in case of a reopening. 

3

 In reopenings, the amount accepted is in addition to the amount of original offerings. 

4

 Includes securities issued to the Federal Reserve System; and to foreign and international 

monetary authorities, whether in exchange for maturing securities or for new cash. 

Note.—Amounts listed as tendered and accepted are amounts tendered and awarded on 

auction day. 
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INTRODUCTION: Ownership of Federal Securities 

Federal securities presented in the following tables are 

public debt securities such as savings bonds, bills, notes, and 

bonds that the Treasury issues. The tables also detail debt 

issued by other Federal agencies under special financing 

authorities. [See the Federal debt (FD) tables for a more 

complete description of the Federal debt.] 

Effective January 1, 2001, Treasury’s Bureau of the 

Fiscal Service revised formats, titles, and column headings 

in the “Monthly Statement of the Public Debt of the United 

States,” Table I: Summary of Treasury Securities 

Outstanding and Table II: Statutory Debt Limit. These 

changes should reduce confusion and bring the publication 

more in line with the public’s use of terms. 

Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service compiles data in 

the “Treasury Bulletin” table OFS-1 from the “Monthly 

Statement of the Public Debt of the United States.” Effective 

June 2001, Bureau of the Fiscal Service revised procedures 

and categories in this table to agree with the Bureau of the 

Fiscal Service’s publication changes. 

 Table OFS-1 presents Treasury marketable and 

nonmarketable securities and debt issued by other Federal 

agencies held by Government accounts, the FRBs, and 

private investors. Social Security and Federal retirement 

trust fund investments comprise much of the Government 

account holdings. 

The FRBs acquire Treasury securities in the market as a 

means of executing monetary policy. 

 Table OFS-2 presents the estimated ownership of 

U.S. Treasury securities. Information is primarily obtained 

from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors Flow of Funds 

data, Table L209. State, local, and foreign holdings include 

special issues of nonmarketable securities to municipal 

entities and foreign official accounts. They also include 

municipal, foreign official, and private holdings of 

marketable Treasury securities. (See footnotes to the table 

for description of investor categories.) 
OWNERSHIP OF FEDERAL SECURITIES 

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TABLE OFS-1.—Distribution of Federal Securities by Class of Investors and Type of Issues 

[In millions of dollars. Source: Bureau of the Fiscal Service] 

End of 

fiscal year 

or month 

 Total 

 Federal 

 securities 

 outstanding 

 (1) 

Public debt securities 

Held by U.S. Government accounts Public issues

held by Federal

Reserve banks

(6) 

 Total

 outstanding

 (2) 

Total 

(3) 

 Marketable 

 (4) 

Nonmarketable 

(5) 

 

2009 ................................................ 11,933,031 11,909,828 4,355,292 - 4,355,292 827,126

2010 ................................................ 13,585,596 13,561,622 4,534,014 - 4,534,014 909,910

2011 ................................................ 14,815,328 14,790,340 4,658,307 - 4,658,307 1,689,186

2012 ................................................ 16,090,640 16,066,241 4,791,850 - 4,791,850 1,744,275

2013 ................................................ 16,763,286 16,738,183 4,757,211 - 4,757,211 2,315,023

 

2012 - Dec....................................... 16,457,613 16,432,730 4,846,173 - 4,846,173 1,786,023

2013 - Jan ....................................... 16,458,774 16,433,792 4,868,335 - 4,868,335 1,848,206

Feb ...................................... 16,712,052 16,687,289 4,859,474 - 4,859,474 1,911,125

Mar ...................................... 16,796,009 16,771,378 4,848,930 - 4,848,930 1,971,959

Apr....................................... 16,853,522 16,828,845 4,880,244 - 4,880,244 2,025,818

May...................................... 16,763,595 16,738,821 4,836,371 - 4,836,371 2,084,249

June..................................... 16,763,286 16,738,319 4,831,752 - 4,831,752 2,145,596

July ...................................... 16,763,730 16,738,599 4,816,157 - 4,816,157 2,204,961

Aug ...................................... 16,763,581 16,738,649 4,766,719 - 4,766,719 2,261,118

Sept..................................... 16,763,286 16,738,183 4,757,211 - 4,757,211 2,315,023

Oct....................................... 17,181,230 17,156,117 4,969,004 - 4,969,004 2,372,206

Nov ...................................... 17,241,818 17,217,152 4,936,273 - 4,936,273 2,428,444

Dec ...................................... 17,376,463 17,351,971 4,996,782 - 4,996,782 2,484,411

 

 Public debt securities, con. Agency securities 1

End of 

fiscal year 

or month 

Held by private investors 

Total 

outstanding 

 (10) 

Held by 

private 

investors 

(11) 

Held by 

Government 

accounts 

(12) 

Total 

(7) 

Marketable 

(8) 

 Nonmarketable 

 (9) 

2009 ................................................ 6,727,410 6,182,607 544,804 23,203 23,202 1

2010 ................................................ 8,117,698 7,588,415 529,284 23,974 23,971 3

2011 ................................................ 8,442,847 7,935,360 507,488 24,988 24,982 5

2012 ................................................ 9,530,116 9,005,483 524,634 24,399 24,394 5

2013 ................................................ 9,665,949 9,281,132 384,818 25,103 25,098 5

 

2012 - Dec....................................... 9,800,534 9,267,179 533,355 24,884 24,879 5

2013 - Jan ....................................... 9,717,251 9,267,115 450,136 24,982 24,977 5

Feb ...................................... 9,916,690 9,397,228 519,462 24,763 24,758 5

Mar ...................................... 9,950,490 9,426,046 524,444 24,631 24,626 5

Apr....................................... 9,922,783 9,390,943 531,841 24,677 24,672 5

May...................................... 9,818,201 9,313,062 505,040 24,774 24,769 5

June..................................... 9,760,971 9,249,407 511,565 24,967 24,962 5

July ...................................... 9,717,481 9,278,530 438,952 25,131 25,126 5

Aug ...................................... 9,710,813 9,325,061 385,752 24,932 24,926 5

Sept..................................... 9,665,949 9,281,132 384,818 25,103 25,098 5

Oct....................................... 9,814,907 9,322,791 492,116 25,113 25,108 5

Nov ...................................... 9,852,435 9,363,193 489,241 24,667 24,662 5

Dec ...................................... 9,870,778 9,385,023 485,755 24,492 24,487 5

 

 1 Table has been revised to show separate amounts for Agency Securities to include 

Held by Private Investors and Held by Government Accounts. 

Note. – Public issues held by the Federal Reserve banks have been revised to 

include Ginnie Mae and exclude the following Government-Sponsored Enterprises: 

Federal National Mortgage Association, Federal Home Loan Mortgage 

Corporation, and the Federal Home Loan Bank System.
OWNERSHIP OF FEDERAL SECURITIES 

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TABLE OFS-2.—Estimated Ownership of U.S. Treasury Securities 

[In billions of dollars. Source: Office of Debt Management, Office of the Under Secretary for Domestic Finance] 

 

SOMA and 

Intragovernmental 

Holdings 2,3

(2) 

 Pension funds 3 

End of month 

Total 

public 

debt 1

(1) 

Total 

privately 

held 

(3) 

 Depository 

 institutions 4, 5

 (4) 

U.S.

savings

bonds 6

(5) 

 Private 7

 (6) 

State and

local 

governments

 (7) 

 Insurance 

 compa- 

 nies 4

 (8) 

Mutual 

funds 4, 8

(9) 

 State and 

 local 

 govern- 

 ments 4

 (10) 

 Foreign

 and inter-

 national 9

 (11) 

Other 

 investors 10

 (12) 

 

2013 - Dec......... 17,352 7,205 10,147 n.a. 179 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a.

 Sept........ 16,738 6,834 9,904 295 180 493 234 265 1,083 498 5,653 1,203

 June ....... 16,738 6,773 9,965 302 181 479 226 266 1,076 536 5,595 1,304

 Mar......... 16,772 6,657 10,115 340 182 465 226 268 1,107 534 5,725 1,267

2012 - Dec......... 16,433 6,524 9,909 349 182 451 215 270 1,036 536 5,574 1,297

 Sept........ 16,066 6,447 9,619 339 184 437 204 270 987 543 5,476 1,180

 June ....... 15,855 6,476 9,380 304 185 423 196 269 971 550 5,311 1,172

 Mar......... 15,582 6,397 9,185 320 185 411 189 271 974 541 5,145 1,148

2011 - Dec......... 15,223 6,440 8,783 280 185 391 173 272 898 545 5,007 1,032

 Sept........ 14,790 6,328 8,462 294 185 380 165 259 808 553 4,912 905

 June ....... 14,343 6,220 8,123 279 186 364 166 255 766 569 4,691 846

 Mar......... 14,270 5,959 8,311 321 187 354 165 253 747 580 4,481 1,223

2010 - Dec......... 14,025 5,656 8,369 319 188 345 160 248 709 591 4,436 1,373

 Sept........ 13,562 5,350 8,211 323 189 334 150 241 660 584 4,324 1,407

 June ....... 13,202 5,345 7,857 266 190 323 149 232 666 583 4,070 1,377

 Mar......... 12,773 5,260 7,513 269 190 311 153 226 669 583 3,878 1,234

2009 - Dec......... 12,311 5,277 7,034 202 191 302 152 222 660 584 3,685 1,035

 Sept........ 11,910 5,127 6,783 198 192 291 147 210 660 583 3,571 930

 June ....... 11,545 5,027 6,518 141 194 282 147 200 704 588 3,461 802

 Mar......... 11,127 4,785 6,342 126 194 272 137 191 714 588 3,266 854

2008 - Dec......... 10,700 4,806 5,893 105 194 260 130 171 758 601 3,077 597

 Sept........ 10,025 4,693 5,332 130 194 253 137 163 631 614 2,802 407

 June ....... 9,492 4,686 4,806 113 195 244 135 159 440 635 2,587 297

 Mar......... 9,438 4,695 4,743 125 195 240 135 152 467 646 2,506 276

2007 - Dec......... 9,229 4,834 4,396 130 196 229 144 142 344 648 2,353 210

 Sept........ 9,008 4,738 4,270 120 197 225 153 155 293 643 2,235 248

 June ....... 8,868 4,715 4,153 110 199 221 162 169 258 638 2,192 204

 Mar......... 8,850 4,577 4,273 120 200 220 156 185 263 608 2,195 325

2006 - Dec......... 8,680 4,558 4,122 115 202 216 153 198 248 571 2,103 316

 Sept........ 8,507 4,433 4,074 114 204 202 149 197 234 542 2,025 407

 June ....... 8,420 4,389 4,031 119 205 192 150 196 243 532 1,978 416

 Mar......... 8,371 4,257 4,114 113 206 186 153 200 254 516 2,082 404

2005 - Dec......... 8,170 4,200 3,971 129 205 184 154 202 254 512 2,034 295

 Sept........ 7,933 4,068 3,865 134 204 184 161 201 247 494 1,930 312

 June ....... 7,836 4,034 3,803 136 204 180 166 195 249 461 1,878 334

 Mar......... 7,777 3,922 3,855 149 204 177 157 193 264 429 1,952 329

2004 - Dec......... 7,596 3,906 3,691 133 204 173 149 188 256 405 1,849 331

 Sept........ 7,379 3,772 3,607 146 204 174 140 183 249 393 1,795 323

 June ....... 7,274 3,743 3,532 168 205 173 135 175 252 390 1,735 299

 Mar......... 7,131 3,628 3,503 173 204 170 144 172 275 373 1,670 322

 1

 Source: “Monthly Statement of the Public Debt of the United States (MSPD).” Face 

value. 

2

 Sources: Federal Reserve Bulletin, Table 1.18, Federal Reserve banks, statement of 

condition, for System Open Market Accounts; and the U. S. Treasury MSPD for 

intragovernmental holdings. Federal Reserve holdings exclude Treasury securities held 

under repurchase agreements. 

3

As of February 2005, the debt held by Government Accounts was renamed to 

Intragovernmental holdings. 

4

 Source: Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Flow of Funds Table L.209. 

5

 Includes U.S. chartered depository institutions, foreign banking offices in U.S., banks in 

U.S. affiliated areas, credit unions and bank holding companies. 

6

 Sources: “Monthly Statement of the Public Debt of the United States from January 1996. 

Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Flow of Funds Table L. 209 from January 1977 

through December 1995. Current accrual value. 

7 Includes U.S. Treasury securities held by the Federal Employees Retirement System 

Thrift Savings Plan "G Fund."

8

Includes money market mutual funds, mutual funds, and closed-end investment 

companies.

9

Source: Federal Reserve Board Treasury International Capital Survey. Includes 

nonmarketable foreign series, Treasury securities, and Treasury deposit funds. Excludes 

Treasury securities held under repurchase agreements in custody accounts at the Federal 

Reserve Bank of New York. For additional information, see: 

http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/pages/index.aspx. 

10 Includes individuals, Government-sponsored enterprises, brokers and dealers, bank 

personal trusts and estates, corporate and non-corporate businesses, and other investors. 
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INTRODUCTION: U.S. Currency and Coin Outstanding and in Circulation 

The U.S. Currency and Coin Outstanding and in 

Circulation (USCC) statement informs the public of the total 

face value of currency and coin used as a medium of 

exchange that is in circulation at the end of a given 

accounting month. The statement defines the total amount of 

currency and coin outstanding and the portion deemed to be 

in circulation. It includes some old and current rare issues 

that do not circulate or that may do so to a limited extent. 

Treasury includes them in the statement because the issues 

were originally intended for general circulation. 

The USCC statement provides a description of the 

various issues of paper money. It also gives an estimated 

average of currency and coin held by each individual, using 

estimates of population from the Bureau of the Census. 

USCC information has been published by Treasury since 

1888, and was published separately until 1983, when it was 

incorporated into the “Treasury Bulletin.” The USCC comes 

from monthly reports compiled by Treasury offices, U.S. 

Mint offices, the Federal Reserve banks (FRBs), and the 

Federal Reserve Board. 

TABLE USCC-1.—Amounts Outstanding and in Circulation, December 31, 2013 

[Source: Bureau of the Fiscal Service] 

Currency 

Total 

currency 

and coin 

(1) 

Total currency 

(2) 

Federal Reserve notes 1

(3) 

U.S. notes 

(4) 

Currency no

longer issued

(5) 

Amounts outstanding .............................. $1,446,469,446,294 $1,401,457,801,229 $1,400,976,602,817 $240,228,566 $240,969,846

Less amounts held by: 

The Treasury....................................... 293,788,200 53,120,856 52,897,145 7,505 216,206

FRBs ................................................... 205,011,583,506 203,056,107,050 203,056,103,399 - 3,651

Amounts in circulation............................. $1,241,164,074,588 $1,198,348,573,323 $1,197,867,602,273 $240,221,081 $240,749,989

Coins 2

Total 

(1) 

Dollars 2, 3 

(2) 

Fractional

coins 

(3) 

 

Amounts outstanding .............................. $45,011,645,065 $6,448,918,110 $38,562,726,955 

Less amounts held by: 

The Treasury....................................... 240,667,344 52,032,470 188,634,874

FRBs ................................................... 1,955,476,456 1,379,405,072 576,071,384

Amounts in circulation............................. $42,815,501,265 $5,017,480,568 $ 37,798,020,697 

See footnotes following table USCC-2. 
U.S. CURRENCY AND COIN OUTSTANDING AND IN CIRCULATION 

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TABLE USCC-2.—Amounts Outstanding and in Circulation, December 31, 2013 

[Source: Bureau of the Fiscal Service] 

Currency in circulation by denomination 

Total 

(1) 

Federal Reserve notes 1 

(2) 

U.S. notes 

(3) 

Currency no

longer issued 

(4) 

$1 ................................................................................ $10,611,100,585 $10,469,736,904 $143,503 $141,220,178

$2 ................................................................................ 2,093,012,098 1,961,141,924 131,857,618 12,556

$5 ................................................................................ 12,691,750,860 12,558,542,575 108,198,710 25,009,575

$10 .............................................................................. 18,458,478,380 18,438,073,390 6,300 20,398,690

$20 .............................................................................. 154,995,790,800 154,975,686,980 3,840 20,099,980

$50 .............................................................................. 74,479,886,000 74,468,395,000 500 11,490,500

$100 ............................................................................ 924,705,850,000 924,683,879,500 -4 21,970,500

$500 ............................................................................ 142,072,000 141,879,000 5,500 187,500

$1,000 ......................................................................... 165,407,000 165,197,000 5,000 205,000

$5,000 ......................................................................... 1,765,000 1,710,000 - 55,000

$10,000 ....................................................................... 3,460,000 3,360,000 - 100,000

Fractional notes 5 ........................................................ 600 - 90 510 

Total currency ......................................................... $1,198,348,573,323 $1,197,867,602,273 $240,221,061 $240,749,989 

Comparative totals of currency and coins in circulation—selected dates 

 Amounts (in millions) 

 (1) 

 Per capita 6 

 (2) 

Dec. 31, 2013....................................................................................... 1,241,164 3,910

Nov. 30, 2013....................................................................................... 1,227,512 3,868

Oct. 31, 2013........................................................................................ 1,218,356 3,842

Sept. 30, 2005...................................................................................... 766,487 2,578

Sept. 30, 2000...................................................................................... 568,614 2,061

Sept. 30, 1995...................................................................................... 409,272 1,553

Sept. 30, 1990...................................................................................... 278,903 1,105

Sept. 30, 1985...................................................................................... 187,337 782

Sept. 30, 1980...................................................................................... 129,916 581

June 30, 1975 ...................................................................................... 81,196 380

June 30,1970 ....................................................................................... 54,351 265

June 30, 1965 ...................................................................................... 39,719 204

June 30, 1960 ...................................................................................... 32,064 177

June 30, 1955 ...................................................................................... 30,229 183

1

 Issued on or after July 1, 1929. 

2

 Excludes coins sold to collectors at premium prices. 

3

 Includes $481,781,898 in standard silver dollars. 

4

 Represents current FRB adjustment.

5 Represents value of certain partial denominations not presented for redemption. 

6 Based on Bureau of the Census’ estimates of population.
ForeignCurrencyPositions

ExchangeStabilizationFund
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INTRODUCTION: Foreign Currency Positions

The “Treasury Bulletin” reports foreign currency 

holdings of large foreign exchange market participants. 

These reports provide information on positions in derivative 

instruments, such as foreign exchange futures and options 

that are increasingly used in establishing foreign exchange 

positions but were not covered in the old reports. 

The information is based on reports of large foreign 

exchange market participants on holdings of five major 

foreign currencies (Canadian dollar, Japanese yen, Swiss 

franc, pound sterling, and euro) and the U.S. dollar. 

Positions in the U.S. dollar, which have been collected since 

January 1999, are intended to approximate “all other” 

currency positions of reporting institutions. U.S.-based 

businesses file a consolidated report for their domestic and 

foreign subsidiaries, branches, and agencies. U.S. 

subsidiaries of foreign entities file only for themselves, not 

for their foreign parents. Filing is required by law (31 United 

States Code 5315; 31 Code of Federal Regulations 128, 

Subpart C). 

Weekly and monthly reports must be filed throughout the 

calendar year by major foreign exchange market 

participants, which are defined as market participants with 

more than $50 billion equivalent in foreign exchange 

contracts on the last business day of any calendar quarter 

during the previous year (end March, September, September, 

or December). Such contracts include the amounts of foreign 

exchange spot contracts bought and sold, foreign exchange 

forward contracts bought and sold, foreign exchange futures 

bought and sold, and one half the notional amount of foreign 

exchange options bought and sold. 

A quarterly report must be filed throughout the calendar 

year by each foreign exchange market participant that had 

more than $5 billion equivalent in foreign exchange 

contracts on the last business day of any quarter the previous 

year (end March, September, September, or December). 

This information is published in six sections 

corresponding to each of the major currencies covered by the 

reports. Tables I-1 through VI-1 present the currency data 

reported weekly by major market participants. Tables I-2 

through VI-2 present more detailed currency data of major 

market participants, based on monthly reports. Tables I-3 

through VI-3 present quarterly consolidated currency data 

reported by large market participants that do not file weekly 

reports. The information in the tables referenced above is 

based on the reports referenced in this Introduction: Foreign 

Currency Positions and is not audited by the Federal Reserve 

banks or the Treasury Department. 

Principal exchanged under cross-currency interest rate 

swaps is reported as part of purchases or sales of foreign 

exchange. Such principal also was noted separately on 

monthly and quarterly reports through December 1998, 

when this practice was discontinued. The net options 

position, or the net delta-equivalent value of an options 

position, is an estimate of the relationship between an 

option’s value and an equivalent currency hedge. The delta 

equivalent value is defined as the product of the first partial 

derivative of an option valuation formula (with respect to the 

price of the underlying currency) multiplied by the notional 

principal of the contract. 
FOREIGN CURRENCY POSITIONS 

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SECTION I.—Canadian Dollar Positions 

TABLE FCP-I-1.—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants 

[In millions of Canadian dollars. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting] 

Report date 

Spot, forward and future contracts Net options 

 positions 

(3) 

Exchange 

rate 

(Canadian 

dollars per 

U.S. dollar)

(4) 

Purchased

(1) 

Sold

(2) 

07/03/2013 ............................................................. 778,024 783,155 n.a. 1.0521

07/10/2013 ............................................................. 784,058 788,447 n.a. 1.0510

07/17/2013 ............................................................. 779,197 781,026 n.a. 1.0423

07/24/2013 ............................................................. 781,870 783,001 n.a. 1.0298

07/31/2013 ............................................................. 813,738 812,642 n.a. 1.0287

08/07/2013 ............................................................. 782,396 787,252 n.a. 1.0415

08/14/2013 ............................................................. 774,286 781,658 n.a. 1.0319

08/21/2013 ............................................................. 804,505 808,614 n.a. 1.0442

08/28/2013 ............................................................. 817,434 827,013 n.a. 1.0491

09/04/2013 ............................................................. 822,129 826,871 n.a. 1.0482

09/11/2013 ............................................................. 835,929 843,809 n.a. 1.0336

09/18/2013 ............................................................. 722,742 727,744 n.a. 1.0312

09/25/2013 ............................................................. 710,731 716,492 n.a. 1.0294

10/02/2013 ............................................................. 712,023 718,057 n.a. 1.0330

10/09/2013 ............................................................. 708,912 714,988 n.a. 1.0396

10/16/2013 ............................................................. 730,212 738,448 55 1.0345

10/23//2013 ............................................................ 758,189 766,260 35 1.0384

10/30/2013 ............................................................. 797,726 805,415 n.a. 1.0454

11/06/2013 ............................................................. 783,676 790,358 n.a. 1.0418

11/13/2013 ............................................................. 775,976 785,522 -84 1.0468

11/20/2013 ............................................................. 791,848 799,290 n.a. 1.0446

11/27/2013 ............................................................. 810,051 816,900 1,101 1.0595

12/04/2013 ............................................................. 820,256 828,069 -57 1.0696

12/11/2013 ............................................................. 834,927 841,198 -213 1.0605

12/18/2013 ............................................................. 798,393 806,884 371 1.0645

12/25/2013 ............................................................. 716,439 724,933 n.a. 1.0631
FOREIGN CURRENCY POSITIONS 

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SECTION I.—Canadian Dollar Positions, continued 

TABLE FCP-I-2.—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants 

[In millions of Canadian dollars. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting] 

Report date 

Spot, forward 

and future contracts 

Foreign currency 

denominated 

Options positions Exchange rate 

(Canadian 

dollars per 

U.S. dollar) 

(10) 

Calls Puts Net delta

equivalent

(9) 

Purchased 

(1) 

Sold 

(2) 

Assets

(3) 

Liabilities

(4) 

Bought

(5) 

Written

(6) 

Bought

(7) 

Written 

(8) 

 

2011 - Dec................... 782,263 788,863 163,515 149,859 33,077 35,638 40,751 36,810 -72 1.0168

2012 - Dec................... 723,826 727,471 195,584 177,964 43,124 45,411 52,812 54,827 -821 0.9958

2013 - Jan ................... 807,851 810,025 203,824 187,597 49,512 53,871 67,890 55,325 -888 0.9992

Feb .................. 850,569 857,930 179,323 169,797 55,486 60,750 86,588 70,292 n.a. 1.0286

Mar .................. 781,456 789,411 185,180 178,005 52,293 68,172 91,568 66,872 n.a. 1.0174

Apr................... 819,558 825,912 187,197 180,781 48,889 n.a. 116,119 68,094 109 1.0072

May.................. 886,145 890,580 187,915 187,302 59,586 87,716 122,555 81,022 n.a. 1.0337

June................. 780,031 783,200 186,980 189,185 58,923 83,676 111,640 76,776 n.a. 1.0513

July .................. 816,930 816,704 188,859 191,665 54,712 62,610 98,493 79,233 n.a. 1.0287

Aug .................. 814,831 818,337 190,520 190,770 51,238 65,260 153,325 126,729 n.a. 1.0554

Sept................. 711,277 719,838 183,335 183,207 49,552 67,189 108,424 82,460 n.a. 1.0284

Oct................... 794,819 800,227 182,012 185,795 54,832 60,812 108,963 89,827 -163 1.0429

Nov .................. 794,896 802,448 175,920 170,755 56,358 62,296 97,461 83,397 905 1.0597

Dec .................. 777,944 787,202 166,401 162,751 62,802 75,543 122,082 97,404 529 1.0637

 

TABLE FCP-I-3.—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants 

[In millions of Canadian dollars. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting] 

Report date 

Spot, forward 

and future contracts 

Foreign currency 

denominated 

Options positions Exchange rate

(Canadian 

dollars per 

U.S. dollar) 

(10) 

Calls Puts 

Net delta 

equivalent 

(9) 

Purchased 

(1) 

Sold 

(2) 

Assets 

(3) 

Liabilities

(4) 

Bought 

(5) 

Written 

(6) 

Bought 

(7) 

 Written 

 (8) 

 

2010 - Dec................... 13,412 26,103 92,168 50,946 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 0.9948

2011 - Mar................... 26,910 38,843 100,865 57,266 n.a. 112 n.a. n.a. n.a. 0.9717

June.................. 20,248 34,127 81,226 45,781 1,222 1,129 1,194 869 137 .0.9642

Sept.................. 16,785 31,287 87,268 41,908 375 404 n.a. 471 118 1.0389

Dec................... 18,977 33,319 77,674 38,291 695 544 n.a. n.a. n.a. 1.0168

2012 - Mar................... 16,450 30,333 90,621 44,773 534 565 1,408 465 n.a. 0.9990

June.................. 22,308 34,176 85,428 45,946 n.a. 474 1,753 1,833 n.a. 1.0190

Sept.................. 21,078 33,681 90,487 47,000 n.a. n.a. 1,400 1,157 n.a. 0.9837

Dec................... 19,395 30,069 73,597 45,414 n.a. n.a. 869 662 n.a. 0.9958

2013 - Mar................... 17,015 32,402 88,822 53,718 276 467 3,545 2,502 n.a. 1.0174

June ................. 20,876 43,404 88,990 55,033 737 673 10,749 7,496 n.a. 1.0513

Sept.................. 17,469 35,073 89,931 55,451 n.a. 1,285 2,216 3,397 n.a. 1.0284
FOREIGN CURRENCY POSITIONS 

March 2014 

50 

SECTION II.—Japanese Yen Positions 

TABLE FCP-II-1.—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants 

[In billions of Japanese yen. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting] 

Exchange 

rate 

(Japanese 

yen per 

U.S. dollar)

Report date (4) 

Spot, forward and future contracts 

Net options positions 

(3) 

Purchased 

(1) 

Sold 

(2) 

07/03/2013 .............................................................. 360,787 366,591 -80 99.82

07/10/2013 .............................................................. 362,832 370,818 73 100.10

07/17/2013 .............................................................. 355,237 360,249 66 99.70

07/24/2013 .............................................................. 358,056 362,474 292 100.21

07/31/2013 .............................................................. 362,502 366,536 279 98.35

08/07/2013 .............................................................. 354,347 358,368 111 96.72

08/14/2013 .............................................................. 352,363 356,457 253 98.15

08/21/2013 .............................................................. 354,435 358,263 471 97.66

08/28/2013 .............................................................. 366,722 370,948 646 97.65

09/04/2013 .............................................................. 370,983 375,203 558 99.61

09/11/2013 .............................................................. 385,349 389,203 592 100.08

09/18/2013 .............................................................. 354,117 359,233 830 99.04

09/25/2013 .............................................................. 362,912 368,390 801 98.62

10/02/2013 .............................................................. 391,807 397,275 940 97.36

10/09/2013 .............................................................. 365,635 369,818 654 97.23

10/16/2013 .............................................................. 373,181 377,412 421 98.90

10/23//2013 ............................................................. 375,356 380,935 490 97.28

10/30/2013 .............................................................. 380,089 385,551 512 98.14

11/06/2013 .............................................................. 376,703 382,474 360 98.60

11/13/2013 .............................................................. 381,114 387,217 190 99.31

11/20/2013 .............................................................. 387,120 393,015 261 100.02

11/27/2013 .............................................................. 387,917 393,392 387 102.18

12/04/2013 .............................................................. 406,266 411,743 178 102.48

12/11/2013 .............................................................. 406,251 412,073 91 102.38

12/18/2013 .............................................................. 390,370 396,886 213 103.18

12/25/2013 .............................................................. 382,163 389,165 186 104.35
FOREIGN CURRENCY POSITIONS 

March 2014 

51

SECTION II.—Japanese Yen Positions, continued 

TABLE FCP-II-2.—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants 

[In billions of Japanese yen. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting] 

Report date 

Spot, forward 

and future contracts 

Foreign currency 

denominated 

Options positions Exchange rate

(Japanese yen 

per U.S. dollar)

(10) 

Calls Puts Net delta

equivalent

(9) 

Purchased 

(1) 

Sold 

(2) 

Assets 

(3) 

Liabilities 

(4) 

Bought

(5) 

Written 

(6) 

Bought 

(7) 

 Written 

 (8) 

 

2011 - Dec.................. 367,595 372,433 60,901 53,768 35,198 35,193 56,040 57,701 n.a. 76.98

2012 - Dec.................. 364,964 399,781 83,896 78,585 36,393 40,545 70,462 66,147 -131 86.64

2013 - Jan .................. 364,151 373,200 86,198 80,798 42,662 49,481 86,117 78,014 -424 91.28

Feb ................. 383,414 389,451 87,831 83,490 44,236 51,935 105,089 89,866 -272 92.36

Mar ................. 340,014 345,523 89,082 83,565 46,073 54,631 95,979 86,419 -565 94.16

Apr.................. 386,710 391,542 91,025 86,090 53,366 65,040 110,554 96,806 -296 97.52

May................. 401,225 407,023 93,618 89,673 51,099 59,563 102,481 93,425 -168 100.83

June................ 369,638 373,671 93,234 88,991 50,153 61,085 104,812 93,171 128 99.21

July ................. 363,061 366,881 93,636 88,515 48,618 59,142 99,055 87,771 279 98.35

Aug ................. 357,232 361,134 95,547 91,215 48,171 58,255 99,347 88,676 669 98.22

Sept................ 368,080 373,070 96,249 91,788 48,537 58,103 93,250 83,703 808 98.29

Oct.................. 384,587 390,544 96,696 92,361 48,681 56,103 89,677 83,537 498 98.10

Nov ................. 392,908 398,626 99,457 94,219 52,132 61,824 95,422 87,075 320 102.45

Dec ................. 367,919 373,026 100,797 95,769 49,695 56,375 91,674 85,364 424 105.25

 

TABLE FCP-II-3.—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants 

[In billions of Japanese yen. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting] 

Report date 

Spot, forward 

and future contracts 

Foreign currency 

denominated 

Options positions Exchange rate

(Japanese yen 

per U.S. dollar)

(10) 

Calls Puts Net delta 

equivalent 

(9) 

Purchased 

(1) 

Sold 

(2) 

Assets 

(3) 

Liabilities

(4) 

Bought

(5) 

Written

(6) 

Bought

(7) 

 Written 

 (8) 

 

2010 - Dec................... 2,732 3,685 5,483 2,843 n.a. 206 329 n.a. -8 81.11

2011 - Mar................... 2,855 3,816 6,500 3,476 77 238 820 276 -28 82.76

June ................. 2,767 3,392 5,139 2,569 233 327 837 422 -28 80.64

Sept.................. 2,899 3,480 4,698 2,446 n.a. 299 538 334 n.a. 77.04

Dec................... 2,937 4,203 5,090 2,553 n.a. 314 447 129 12 76.98

2012 - Mar................... 3,466 4,683 7,764 2,811 180 325 1,274 982 16 82.41

June ................. 4,081 5,603 6,045 2,285 47 276 749 499 17 79.81

Sept.................. 3,610 4,018 5,481 2,227 n.a. 279 689 336 -4 77.92

Dec................... 3,576 5,481 5,971 2,412 230 358 1,853 1,175 -47 86.64

2013 - Mar................... 3,089 5,704 9,256 4,631 n.a. 825 2,923 1,779 24 94.16

June.................. 4,222 5,249 9,282 4,576 541 1,048 2,640 1,828 63 99.21

Sept.................. 4,488 5,477 9,360 4,481 n.a. 906 2,077 1,561 24 98.29

 
FOREIGN CURRENCY POSITIONS 

March 2014 

52 

SECTION III.—Swiss Franc Positions 

TABLE FCP-III-1.—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants 

[In millions of Swiss francs. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting] 

 Exchange 

rate (Swiss 

francs per 

U.S. dollar)

Report date (4) 

Spot, forward and future contracts 

Net options positions 

(3) 

Purchased 

(1) 

Sold 

(2) 

07/03/2013 .............................................................. 641,992 653,409 2,923 0.9475

07/10/2013 .............................................................. 654,136 667,084 2,772 0.9682

07/17/2013 .............................................................. 622,383 633,855 2,048 0.9428

07/24/2013 .............................................................. 611,696 620,709 685 0.9354

07/31/2013 .............................................................. 621,154 633,623 n.a. 0.9284

08/07/2013 .............................................................. 613,178 627,284 1,610 0.9222

08/14/2013 .............................................................. 629,733 643,455 1,406 0.9354

08/21/2013 .............................................................. 615,133 629,931 992 0.9211

08/28/2013 .............................................................. 647,233 662,209 893 0.9221

09/04/2013 .............................................................. 628,061 641,016 693 0.9356

09/11/2013 .............................................................. 659,535 669,710 1,053 0.9314

09/18/2013 .............................................................. 615,120 628,510 n.a. 0.9260

09/25/2013 .............................................................. 608,949 622,296 1,275 0.9082

10/02/2013 .............................................................. 633,441 647,147 1,006 0.9017

10/09/2013 .............................................................. 662,447 676,917 714 0.9104

10/16/2013 .............................................................. 673,340 685,922 -160 0.9163

10/23//2013 ............................................................. 676,625 688,279 n.a. 0.8918

10/30/2013 .............................................................. 716,184 729,856 -531 0.8964

11/06/2013 .............................................................. 693,194 704,644 3 0.9109

11/13/2013 .............................................................. 714,681 728,732 -30 0.9155

11/20/2013 .............................................................. 714,691 725,568 171 0.9158

11/27/2013 .............................................................. 721,055 732,459 -83 0.9091

12/04/2013 .............................................................. 740,340 749,770 -308 0.9052

12/11/2013 .............................................................. 772,745 784,414 -412 0.8856

12/18/2013 .............................................................. 763,439 774,405 n.a. 0.8872

12/25/2013 .............................................................. 690,658 698,714 n.a. 0.8958
FOREIGN CURRENCY POSITIONS 

March 2014 

53

SECTION III.—Swiss Franc Positions, continued 

TABLE FCP-III-2.—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants 

[In millions of Swiss francs. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting] 

Report date 

Spot, forward 

and future contracts 

Foreign currency 

denominated 

Options positions Exchange rate

(Swiss francs per 

U.S. dollar) 

(10) 

Calls Puts Net delta

equivalent

(9) 

Purchased 

(1) 

 Sold 

 (2) 

Assets 

(3) 

Liabilities

(4) 

Bought

(5) 

Written

(6) 

Bought

(7) 

Written 

(8) 

 

2011 - Dec................... 884,081 913,811 127,681 93,533 135,380 133,882 160,846 153,679 -41 0.9374

2012 - Dec................... 654,579 683,540 158,819 85,852 86,352 88,023 102,871 101,876 -670 0.9155

2013 - Jan ................... 768,684 797,434 124,516 89,768 110,972 113,235 139,566 132,025 1,475 0.9093

Feb .................. 717,889 751,859 135,623 96,484 116,436 120,170 166,334 164,089 2,503 0.9336

Mar .................. 659,148 684,373 123,049 90,712 110,372 117,126 142,769 131,424 375 0.9490

Apr................... 638,933 673,464 103,172 67,744 112,355 129,916 155,499 136,638 171 0.9298

May.................. 768,751 788,807 97,148 68,760 127,287 171,998 212,608 162,632 1,289 0.9583

June................. 660,601 673,216 80,775 58,463 122,106 152,009 185,295 152,196 3,247 0.9450

July .................. 621,792 635,209 71,849 50,463 120,334 139,241 180,971 157,680 n.a. 0.9284

Aug .................. 600,982 609,661 80,494 52,317 117,161 133,399 197,729 178,353 737 0.9313

Sept................. 627,162 638,703 70,202 52,509 117,028 131,607 168,593 153,125 889 0.9041

Oct................... 715,206 728,063 75,328 52,490 118,895 130,949 168,771 151,743 -28 0.9056

Nov .................. 708,418 716,350 74,589 63,849 118,237 126,523 160,429 146,994 -153 0.9047

Dec .................. 615,640 639,211 96,480 74,020 105,112 115,954 139,453 127,568 -472 0.8904

 

TABLE FCP-III-3.—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants 

[In millions of Swiss francs. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting] 

Report date 

Spot, forward 

and future contracts 

Foreign currency 

denominated 

Options positions Exchange rate

(Swiss francs per 

U.S. dollar) 

(10) 

Calls Puts Net delta 

equivalent 

(9) 

Purchased 

(1) 

Sold 

(2) 

Assets

(3) 

Liabilities

(4) 

Bought

(5) 

Written

(6) 

Bought

(7) 

Written 

(8) 

 

2010 - Dec................... 9,513 14,149 52,189 10,966 233 n.a. 256 n.a. -27 0.9341

2011 - Mar................... 10,382 15,792 49,574 8,475 47 n.a. 1,796 n.a. n.a. 0.9157

June ................. 9,726 15,257 50,996 7,859 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 0.8413

Sept.................. 11,861 15,339 51,004 7,441 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 0.9048

Dec................... 12,282 19,706 48,877 8,420 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 0.9374

2012 - Mar................... 11,411 18,791 58,909 9,829 n.a. 1,872 4,637 4,153 n.a. 0.9026

June ................. 13,949 14,899 48,392 9,618 1,289 1,531 n.a. n.a. 4 0.9485

Sept.................. 13,646 14,961 n.a. 8,085 n.a. n.a. 944 1,286 8 0.9400

Dec ................... 14,365 16,096 n.a. 8,884 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 0.9155

2013 - Mar................... 16,520 21,737 n.a. 9,348 430 1,234 3,684 n.a. -54 0.9490

June.................. 17,279 17,163 n.a. 9,609 730 1,144 5,802 4,085 n.a. 0.9450

Sept.................. 15,003 12,498 n.a. 11,857 n.a. n.a. 3,891 2,400 n.a. 0.9041

 
FOREIGN CURRENCY POSITIONS 

March 2014 

54 

SECTION IV.—Sterling Positions 

TABLE FCP-IV-1.—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants 

[In millions of pounds sterling. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting] 

 Exchange

rate (U.S. 

dollars per 

pound) 

Report date (4) 

Spot, forward and future contracts 

Net options positions 

(3) 

Purchased 

(1) 

Sold 

(2) 

07/03/2013 .............................................................. 1,603,649 1,567,943 n.a. 1.5264

07/10/2013 .............................................................. 1,644,404 1,621,433 n.a. 1.4935

07/17/2013 .............................................................. 1,665,721 1,649,701 n.a. 1.5184

07/24/2013 .............................................................. 1,637,198 1,621,831 n.a. 1.5367

07/31/2013 .............................................................. 1,687,241 1,670,642 n.a. 1.5177

08/07/2013 .............................................................. 1,695,542 1,686,674 n.a. 1.5514

08/14/2013 .............................................................. 1,654,419 1,646,139 n.a. 1.5531

08/21/2013 .............................................................. 1,657,023 1,650,464 n.a. 1.5678

08/28/2013 .............................................................. 1,702,473 1,701,521 n.a. 1.5520

09/04/2013 .............................................................. 1,667,092 1,660,978 n.a. 1.5643

09/11/2013 .............................................................. 1,735,159 1,724,750 n.a. 1.5807

09/18/2013 .............................................................. 1,654,438 1,643,906 -119 1.5965

09/25/2013 .............................................................. 1,631,303 1,622,847 n.a. 1.6080

10/02/2013 .............................................................. 1,582,059 1,569,790 353 1.6224

10/09/2013 .............................................................. 1,606,062 1,601,322 -666 1.5943

10/16/2013 .............................................................. 1,581,821 1,575,220 -989 1.5904

10/23//2013 ............................................................. 1,619,195 1,611,364 -1,519 1.6171

10/30/2013 .............................................................. 1,676,292 1,669,893 n.a. 1.6078

11/06/2013 .............................................................. 1,665,612 1,654,015 n.a. 1.6080

11/13/2013 .............................................................. 1,698,068 1,688,992 n.a. 1.6033

11/20/2013 .............................................................. 1,721,184 1,713,972 n.a. 1.6150

11/27/2013 .............................................................. 1,709,577 1,701,488 n.a. 1.6267

12/04/2013 .............................................................. 1,713,757 1,707,776 n.a. 1.6352

12/11/2013 .............................................................. 1,729,214 1,720,504 n.a. 1.6389

12/18/2013 .............................................................. 1,705,540 1,691,950 n.a. 1.6388

12/25/2013 .............................................................. 1,537,113 1,520,778 n.a. 1.6360
FOREIGN CURRENCY POSITIONS 

March 2014 

55

SECTION IV.—Sterling Positions, continued 

TABLE FCP-IV-2.—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants 

[In millions of pounds sterling. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting] 

Report date 

Spot, forward 

and future contracts 

Foreign currency 

denominated 

Options positions Exchange rate 

(U.S. dollars 

per pound) 

(10) 

Calls Puts Net delta

equivalent

(9) 

Purchased 

(1) 

Sold 

(2) 

Assets 

(3) 

Liabilities

(4) 

Bought

(5) 

Written

(6) 

Bought

(7) 

Written 

(8) 

 

2011 - Dec................... 1,372,844 1,430,284 603,807 492,225 53,956 52,416 60,517 60,664 n.a. 1.5537

2012 - Dec................... 1,457,283 1,438,257 658,674 554,948 46,300 45,013 48,575 51,867 n.a. 1.6262

2013 - Jan ................... 1,677,493 1,651,760 638,253 551,188 53,592 86,346 99,707 70,387 -490 1.5856

Feb .................. 1,742,402 1,723,009 635,481 537,504 66,473 n.a. 221,642 120,562 52 1.5192

Mar .................. 1,637,994 1,622,393 637,349 542,434 73,239 98,708 129,208 102,655 -664 1.5193

Apr................... 1,684,697 1,659,558 613,972 539,805 75,451 103,072 134,577 104,822 n.a. 1.5539

May.................. 1,730,801 1,697,334 599,499 520,823 72,955 96,068 135,434 110,790 n.a. 1.5185

June................. 1,645,811 1,619,769 581,864 506,029 73,518 95,886 128,913 102,991 n.a. 1.5210

July .................. 1,691,970 1,674,202 589,832 512,196 80,758 102,726 149,502 119,894 n.a. 1.5177

Aug .................. 1,631,825 1,624,850 579,353 502,514 74,160 82,034 113,169 99,766 162 1.5468

Sept................. 1,590,758 1,578,000 569,889 490,430 76,225 78,736 94,800 88,849 -180 1.6179

Oct................... 1,679,737 1,677,088 617,239 534,485 74,634 76,360 91,078 87,573 n.a. 1.6068

Nov .................. 1,705,094 1,698,910 586,099 516,602 81,385 81,323 88,086 85,814 n.a. 1.6373

Dec .................. 1,560,072 1,549,461 558,331 482,587 68,177 65,277 71,494 73,631 -179 1.6574

 

TABLE FCP-IV-3.—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants 

[In millions of pounds sterling. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting] 

Report date 

Spot, forward 

and future contracts 

Foreign currency 

denominated 

Options positions Exchange rate 

(U.S. dollars 

per pound) 

(10) 

Calls Puts Net delta 

equivalent 

(9) 

Purchased 

(1) 

Sold 

(2) 

Assets 

(3) 

Liabilities

(4) 

Bought

(5) 

Written

(6) 

Bought

(7) 

Written 

(8) 

 

2010 - Dec................... 8,984 13,361 113,538 43,007 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 1.5598

2011 - Mar................... 14,298 16,138 118,729 43,723 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. -106 1.6048

June ................. 10,468 12,578 115,514 38,337 n.a. n.a. n.a. 371 n.a. 1.6067

Sept.................. 15,005 14,989 131,501 44,370 n.a. n.a. 2,711 715 -178 1.5624

Dec................... 11,774 12,622 127,285 29,650 n.a. n.a. n.a. 657 74 1.5537

2012 - Mar................... 14,740 12,296 127,456 32,805 705 347 2,298 623 5 1.5985

June ................. 11,790 11,560 165,914 47,081 668 429 2,271 570 16 1.5686

Sept.................. 16,441 15,379 147,991 33,874 n.a. n.a. 2,046 409 -18 1.6132

Dec ................... 18,837 16,899 57,032 32,581 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 1.6262

2013 - Mar................... 22,023 21,376 68,646 38,456 332 497 3,585 856 -12 1.5193

June.................. 25,286 23,953 66,608 37,013 714 977 3,877 1,328 39 1.5210

Sept.................. 22,298 18,411 68,374 35,752 1,006 1,145 n.a. 1,287 155 1.6179

 
FOREIGN CURRENCY POSITIONS 

March 2014 

56 

SECTION V.—U.S. Dollar Positions 

TABLE FCP-V-1.—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants 

[In millions of U.S. dollars. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting] 

Report date 

Spot, forward and future contracts Net options 

 positions 

(3) 

Exchange 

 rate 

(4) 

Purchased

(1) 

Sold

(2) 

07/03/2013 ............................................................ 17,739,074 17,321,088 1,425 n.a.

07/10/2013 ............................................................ 18,167,491 17,726,024 6,595 n.a.

07/17/2013 ............................................................ 18,095,653 17,645,118 3,286 n.a.

07/24/2013 ............................................................ 18,107,110 17,776,829 -4,650 n.a.

07/31/2013 ............................................................ 18,614,484 18,179,339 -4,775 n.a.

08/07/2013 ............................................................ 17,798,654 17,332,163 84 n.a.

08/14/2013 ............................................................ 17,827,544 17,354,521 -4,060 n.a.

08/21/2013 ............................................................ 18,029,077 17,524,372 -3,800 n.a.

08/28/2013 ............................................................ 18,676,402 18,181,420 -2,046 n.a.

09/04/2013 ............................................................ 18,327,100 17,850,168 -1,127 n.a.

09/11/2013 ............................................................ 19,119,736 18,654,087 -504 n.a.

09/18/2013 ............................................................ 17,932,688 17,459,565 776 n.a.

09/25/2013 ............................................................ 18,186,154 17,711,143 -3,816 n.a.

10/02/2013 ............................................................ 17,749,207 17,232,840 -6,233 n.a.

10/09/2013 ............................................................ 17,815,337 17,309,436 -137 n.a.

10/16/2013 ............................................................ 18,201,906 17,674,379 4,111 n.a.

10/23//2013 ........................................................... 18,615,573 18,078,827 1,290 n.a.

10/30/2013 ............................................................ 19,370,418 18,789,001 1,555 n.a.

11/06/2013 ............................................................ 18,806,290 18,252,545 469 n.a.

11/13/2013 ............................................................ 19,405,671 18,839,482 7,986 n.a.

11/20/2013 ............................................................ 19,642,851 19,102,136 4,000 n.a.

11/27/2013 ............................................................ 19,886,510 19,351,188 2,687 n.a.

12/04/2013 ............................................................ 19,909,376 19,380,437 3,531 n.a.

12/11/2013 ............................................................ 20,510,685 19,986,590 1,530 n.a.

12/18/2013 ............................................................ 19,519,164 18,984,634 439 n.a.

12/25/2013 ............................................................ 18,468,998 17,902,529 -99 n.a.
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SECTION V.—U.S. Dollar Positions, continued 

TABLE FCP-V-2.—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants 

[In millions of U.S. dollars. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting] 

Report date 

Spot, forward 

and future contracts 

Foreign currency 

denominated 

Options positions 

Calls Puts Net delta 

equivalent 

(9) 

Exchange

rate 

(10) 

Purchased 

(1) 

Sold 

(2) 

Assets 

(3) 

Liabilities

(4) 

Bought

(5) 

Written

(6) 

Bought

(7) 

Written 

(8) 

 

2011 - Dec.............. 19,824,454 19,659,998 - - 1,960,401 1,864,790 2,067,617 1,995,663 -4,242 n.a.

2012 - Dec.............. 17,398,629 16,771,084 - - 1,550,821 2,000,809 1,229,560 1,766,978 1,689 n.a.

2013 - Jan .............. 19,567,518 19,147,340 - - 1,596,533 1,513,685 1,178,289 1,215,025 9,221 n.a.

Feb ............. 19,885,930 19,517,370 - - 1,767,592 1,864,088 1,278,583 1,548,621 11,170 n.a.

Mar ............. 18,185,851 17,729,905 - - 1,825,082 1,723,900 1,232,546 1,312,701 9,466 n.a.

Apr.............. 18,849,906 18,425,422 - - 1,951,646 1,811,444 1,368,366 1,456,066 5,958 n.a.

May............. 19,847,383 19,415,262 - - 1,941,273 1,858,474 1,401,262 1,440,136 -1,730 n.a.

June............ 18,665,861 18,230,134 - - 1,995,665 1,873,388 1,416,498 1,479,492 -681 n.a.

July ............. 18,882,611 18,423,688 - - 2,046,196 1,897,017 1,384,917 1,481,170 -4,740 n.a.

Aug ............. 18,429,077 17,943,883 - - 2,045,486 1,898,114 1,392,635 1,486,109 -363 n.a.

Sept............ 18,211,622 17,633,545 - - 1,828,403 1,714,314 1,368,301 1,424,339 -2,709 n.a.

Oct.............. 19,429,008 18,852,211 - - 1,790,659 1,743,262 1,419,376 1,442,357 -191 n.a.

Nov ............. 19,746,921 19,191,943 - - 2,497,609 1,761,318 2,123,797 1,521,380 2,715 n.a.

Dec ............. 18,146,995 17,569,818 - - 1,682,472 1,649,879 1,356,942 1,366,251 2,182 n.a.

 

TABLE FCP-V-3.—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants 

[In millions of U.S. dollars. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting] 

Report date 

Spot, forward 

and future contracts 

Foreign currency 

denominated 

Options positions 

Exchange 

rate 

(10) 

Calls Puts Net delta 

equivalent 

(9) 

Purchased 

(1) 

Sold 

(2) 

Assets

(3) 

Liabilities

(4) 

Bought

(5) 

 Written

 (6) 

 Bought

 (7) 

Written 

(8) 

 

2010 - Dec................... 270,278 247,274 - - 14,838 14,605 11,007 9,394 -901 n.a.

2011 - Mar................... 308,306 268,728 - - 23,859 13,314 19,004 14,882 -1,380 n.a.

 June ................. 303,785 266,617 - - 28,158 15,066 30,490 26,443 -2,250 n.a.

 Sept.................. 307,505 258,447 - - 25,246 16,710 41,329 26,316 -598 n.a.

Dec................... 280,638 237,104 - - 29,815 11,500 18,618 19,252 -1,380 n.a.

2012 - Mar................... 288,754 266,557 - - 30,838 21,200 24,943 21,699 210 n.a.

June ................. 302,534 263,951 - - 36,184 22,751 13,751 15,998 n.a. n.a.

Sept.................. 271,014 297,070 - - 25,109 13,575 20,027 16,847 n.a. n.a.

Dec ................... 316,746 316,764 - - 33,820 24,090 27,325 11,864 n.a. n.a.

2013 - Mar................... 326,700 307,558 - - 57,680 33,599 20,709 21,604 n.a. n.a.

Jun.................... 324,857 305,608 - - 98,395 64,260 25,319 25,299 1,863 n.a.

Sept.................. 275,551 315,379 - - 57,525 36,377 28,655 25,091 n.a. n.a.

 
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SECTION VI.—Euro Positions 

TABLE FCP-VI-1.—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants 

[In millions of euros. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting] 

Exchange 

rate 

(Euros per 

U.S. dollar)

Report date (4) 

Spot, forward and future contracts 

Net options positions 

(3) 

Purchased

(1) 

Sold

(2) 

07/03/2013 ......................................................................... 5,034,948 4,990,239 2,699 0.7689

07/10/2013 ......................................................................... 5,183,603 5,134,199 -508 0.7785

07/17/2013 ......................................................................... 5,096,911 5,049,849 1,543 0.7637

07/24/2013 ......................................................................... 5,055,820 5,019,228 n.a. 0.7560

07/31/2013 ......................................................................... 5,203,844 5,165,984 n.a. 0.7529

08/07/2013 ......................................................................... 4,923,869 4,897,927 n.a. 0.7502

08/14/2013 ......................................................................... 4,949,019 4,929,298 n.a. 0.7544

08/21/2013 ......................................................................... 4,972,759 4,952,468 n.a. 0.7481

08/28/2013 ......................................................................... 5,176,272 5,154,575 n.a. 0.7504

09/04/2013 ......................................................................... 5,065,520 5,032,658 n.a. 0.7569

09/11/2013 ......................................................................... 5,295,921 5,266,458 2,870 0.7518

09/18/2013 ......................................................................... 5,006,867 4,985,276 4,067 0.7490

09/25/2013 ......................................................................... 5,128,208 5,108,051 n.a. 0.7388

10/02/2013 ......................................................................... 4,924,992 4,929,539 n.a. 0.7357

10/09/2013 ......................................................................... 5,004,312 5,004,865 n.a. 0.7400

10/16/2013 ......................................................................... 5,051,317 5,049,679 3,069 0.7413

10/23//2013 ........................................................................ 5,201,968 5,194,597 5,082 0.7254

10/30/2013 ......................................................................... 5,430,218 5,418,222 n.a. 0.7262

11/06/2013 ......................................................................... 5,260,863 5,261,506 n.a. 0.7391

11/13/2013 ......................................................................... 5,457,615 5,464,515 4,009 0.7432

11/20/2013 ......................................................................... 5,543,327 5,556,150 n.a. 0.7434

11/27/2013 ......................................................................... 5,597,319 5,621,579 5,610 0.7373

12/04/2013 ......................................................................... 5,549,032 5,592,751 n.a. 0.7377

12/11/2013 ......................................................................... 5,745,196 5,767,837 n.a. 0.7247

12/18/2013 ......................................................................... 5,491,572 5,525,575 n.a. 0.7264

12/25/2013 ......................................................................... 5,114,033 5,148,715 n.a. 0.7310
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SECTION VI.—Euro Positions, continued 

TABLE FCP-VI-2.—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants 

[In millions of euros. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting] 

Report date 

Spot, forward 

and future contracts 

Foreign currency 

denominated 

Options positions 

Exchange 

rate 

(10) 

Calls Puts Net delta

equivalent

(9) 

Purchased 

(1) 

Sold 

(2) 

Assets 

(3) 

Liabilities

(4) 

Bought

(5) 

Written

(6) 

Bought

(7) 

Written 

(8) 

 

2011 - Dec................... 5,557,886 5,594,727 2,212,049 2,098,286 380,524 430,827 565,230 521,678 -8,026 0.7708

2012 - Dec................... 4,742,320 4,617,740 2,124,942 1,995,883 345,564 383,059 431,599 400,556 -3,395 0.7584

2013 - Jan ................... 5,533,187 5,411,447 2,070,571 1,932,021 419,502 406,678 421,143 424,355 2,590 0.7362

Feb .................. 5,711,400 5,616,840 2,095,782 1,980,412 377,951 450,952 485,330 442,258 -317 0.7646

Mar .................. 5,275,002 5,183,932 2,098,352 1,986,269 376,009 399,661 460,995 419,430 1,007 0.7803

Apr................... 5,256,805 5,176,470 2,091,683 1,989,291 376,907 395,581 454,047 423,584 1,318 0.7594

May.................. 5,476,174 5,412,009 2,040,447 1,959,135 390,222 395,208 446,123 429,359 3,674 0.7699

June................. 5,287,699 5,223,223 1,971,010 1,890,657 381,746 392,708 442,864 410,420 3,428 0.7686

July .................. 5,220,260 5,177,601 1,841,488 1,758,210 375,744 401,996 461,646 418,322 n.a. 0.7529

Aug .................. 5,051,155 5,020,424 1,979,141 1,898,153 360,458 394,891 449,771 409,472 n.a. 0.7578

Sept................. 4,983,867 4,981,003 1,873,625 1,798,450 361,071 391,608 433,625 390,856 n.a. 0.7388

Oct................... 5,418,472 5,428,512 973,146 887,604 391,353 429,283 468,266 426,603 n.a. 0.7356

Nov .................. 5,466,526 5,502,024 1,989,944 1,890,343 388,243 423,382 469,250 433,541 6,233 0.7350

Dec .................. 4,986,374 5,023,973 1,899,825 1,777,324 334,550 358,527 391,263 369,449 6,489 0.7257

 

TABLE FCP-VI-3.—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants 

[In millions of euros. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting] 

Report date 

Spot, forward 

and future contracts 

Foreign currency 

denominated 

Options positions 

Exchange 

rate 

(10) 

Calls Puts Net delta

equivalent

(9) 

Purchased 

(1) 

Sold 

(2) 

Assets 

(3) 

Liabilities

(4) 

Bought

(5) 

Written

(6) 

Bought

(7) 

Written 

(8) 

 

2010 - Dec................... 59,618 69,885 239,412 119,562 9,683 2,980 7,674 7,781 -115 0.7467

2011 - Mar................... 68,004 77,932 261,631 131,370 10,426 3,469 6,505 6,628 534 0.7051

June ................. 64,976 75,325 277,916 140,625 11,741 6,946 13,773 8,825 -624 0.6886

Sept.................. 67,032 80,620 273,218 122,781 11,708 7,866 13,578 10,704 -1,065 0.7436

Dec................... 68,457 76,675 275,793 110,758 8,485 4,847 6,131 8,070 -909 0.7708

2012 - Mar................... 78,078 82,647 318,663 135,064 10,420 4,907 9,969 11,105 70 0.7500

June ................. 73,202 69,492 494,312 209,043 15,867 7,315 13,923 12,535 n.a. 0.7894

Sept.................. 88,373 76,674 274,639 123,965 9,525 4,526 6,688 6,407 28 0.7778

Dec ................... 69,920 61,111 202,499 120,619 8,126 2,152 3,662 n.a. 8 0.7584

2013 - Mar................... 86,922 82,911 226,324 238,669 7,953 6,697 11,137 6,602 n.a. 0.7803

June.................. 80,198 71,480 225,064 138,339 10,852 5,750 15,771 12,375 313 0.7686

Sept.................. 71,851 66,210 242,344 150,495 11,714 4,796 7,815 5,601 818 0.7388

 
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INTRODUCTION: Exchange Stabilization Fund

To stabilize the exchange value of the dollar, the 

Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) was established pursuant 

to chapter 6, section 10 of the Gold Reserve Act of January 

30, 1934 (codified at 31 United States Code 5302), which 

authorized establishment of a Treasury fund to be operated 

under the exclusive control of the Secretary, with approval 

of the President. 

Subsequent amendment of the Gold Reserve Act 

modified the original purpose somewhat to reflect 

termination of the fixed exchange rate system. 

Resources of the fund include dollar balances, partially 

invested in U.S. Government securities, special drawing

rights (SDRs), and balances of foreign currencies. Principal 

sources of income (+) or loss (-) for the fund are profits (+) 

or losses (-) on SDRs and foreign exchange, as well as 

interest earned on assets. 

 Table ESF-1 presents the assets, liabilities, and 

capital of the fund. The figures are in U.S. dollars or their 

equivalents based on current exchange rates computed 

according to the accrual method of accounting. The capital 

account represents the original capital appropriated to the fund 

by Congress of $2 billion, minus a subsequent transfer of $1.8 

billion to pay for the initial U.S. quota subscription to the 

International Monetary Fund. Gains and losses are reflected in 

the cumulative net income (+) or loss (-) account. 

 Table ESF-2 shows the results of operations by 

quarter. Figures are in U.S. dollars or their equivalents 

computed according to the accrual method. “Profit (+) or 

loss (-) on foreign exchange” includes realized profits or 

losses. “Adjustment for change in valuation of SDR holdings 

and allocations” reflects net gain or loss on revaluation of 

SDR holdings and allocations for the quarter. 

TABLE ESF-1.—Balances as of June 30, 2013, and September 30, 2013 

[In thousands of dollars. Source: Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Management] 

Assets, liabilities, and capital June 30, 2013 

July 1, 2013, 

through 

Sept. 30, 2013 Sept. 30, 2013 

Assets 

U.S. dollars: 

Held with Treasury: 

Fund Balance................................................................... - - -

U.S. Government securities............................................. 22,673,239 -3,968 22,669,271 

Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE) Securities ... - - -

Special drawing rights 1 ........................................................... 53,881,299 1,084,735 54,966,034 

Foreign exchange and securities: 

European euro ..................................................................... 14,072,855 587,260 14,660,115 

Japanese yen....................................................................... 9,389,560 92,490 9,482,050 

Accounts receivable................................................................. 86,397 -834 85,563

Total assets.......................................................................... 100,103,350 1,759,683 101,863,033

Liabilities and capital 

Current liabilities: 

Accounts payable................................................................. 5,806 656 6,462

Total current liabilities ...................................................... 5,806 656 6,462

Other liabilities: 

SDR certificates ................................................................... 5,200,000 - 5,200,000

SDR allocations ................................................................... 53,113,371 1,063,709 54,177,080 

Unearned revenue .............................................................. - - -

Total other liabilities ......................................................... 58,313,371 1,063,709 59,377,080

Capital: 

Capital account .................................................................... 200,000 - 200,000

Net income (+) or loss (-) (see Table ESF-2) ...................... -2,324,809 695,397 -1,629,412

Total capital...................................................................... 41,784,173 695,318 42,479,491

Total liabilities and capital............................................ 100,103,350 1,759,683 101,863,033

See footnote on the following page. 
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TABLE ESF-2.—Income and Expense 

[In thousands of dollars. Source: Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Management] 

Current quarter

July 1, 2013, 

through 

Sept. 30, 2013 

Fiscal year to date

Oct. 1, 2012, 

through 

Sept. 30, 2013 

Income and expense 

Profit (+) or loss (-) on: 

Foreign exchange ........................................................................ 655,625 -1,741,739

Adjustment for change in valuation 

 of SDR holdings and allocations 1 .............................................. 15,458 -3,910

Interest (+) or net charges (-) on: 

SDRs............................................................................................ 17 412 

U.S. Government securities......................................................... 1,442 12,645 

GSE Securities............................................................................. - -

Foreign exchange ........................................................................ 22,855 103,180 

Insurance premiums .................................................................... - -

Commissions ............................................................................... - -

Income from operations ............................................................... 695,397 -1,629,412

Net income (+) or loss (-)............................................................. 695,397 -1,629,412

1

 Beginning July 1974, the International Monetary Fund adopted a technique for valuing the 

SDRs based on a weighted average of exchange rates for the currencies of selected 

member countries. The U.S. SDR holdings and allocations are valued on this basis 

beginning July 1974. 

Note. — Annual balance sheets for fiscal years 1934 through 1940 appeared in the 1940 

“Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury” and those for succeeding years 

appeared in subsequent reports through 1980. Quarterly balance sheets beginning with 

December 31, 1938, have been published in the “Treasury Bulletin.” Data from inception 

to September 30, 1978, may be found on the statements published in the January 1979 

“Treasury Bulletin.” 
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United States Government

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INTRODUCTION: Financial Report of the United States Government

The following pages are excerpted from the 2013 

Financial Report of the United States Government (Financial 

Report). The report and accompanying information, prepared 

and published annually by the Financial Management Service, 

are modeled after corporate-type reports and are developed on 

an accrual basis of accounting. 

The excerpts represent some of the most noteworthy 

information contained in the Financial Report. Data for the 

Financial Report are compiled from Federal program agency 

accounting systems Governmentwide. Treasury also presents 

a management discussion and analysis, the customary notes 

to the financial statements, a section on stewardship 

information, and supplemental information in the complete 

document. 

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is required 

by law to audit the Financial Report. GAO’s report, as well 

as the complete Financial Report, can be accessed easily 

through the internet at www.fms.treas.gov/fr. 
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Financial Statements 

of the United States Government 

for the Years Ended September 30, 2013, 

and 2012 

Statements of Net Cost 

These statements present the net cost of the United States Government (Government)1 operations for Fiscal Years 2013 

and 2012, including the operations related to funds from dedicated collections (funds financed by specifically identified 

revenues, often supplemented by other financing sources, which remain available over time). The Government’s fiscal year 

begins October 1 and ends September 30. Costs and earned revenues are categorized on the Statement of Net Cost by 

significant entity, providing greater accountability by showing the relationship of the agencies’ net cost to the 

Governmentwide net cost. Costs and earned revenues are presented in this Financial Report by significant entity on an 

accrual basis, while the budget presents costs and revenues by obligations and receipts, generally on a cash basis. The focus 

of the budget of the United States is by agency. Budgets are prepared, defended, and monitored by agency. In reporting by 

agency, we are assisting the external users in assessing the budget integrity, operating performance, stewardship, and systems 

and controls of the Government. 

These statements contain the following four components: 

 Gross cost—is the full cost of all the departments and entities excluding (gain)/loss from changes in assumptions. 

These costs are assigned on a cause-and-effect basis, or reasonably allocated to the corresponding departments and 

entities. 

 Earned revenue—is exchange revenue resulting from the Government providing goods and services to the public at 

a price. 

 (Gain)/loss from changes in assumptions—is the gain or loss from changes in long-term assumptions used to 

measure the liabilities reported for federal civilian and military employee pensions, other post-employment benefits, 

and other retirement benefits, including veterans’ compensation. 

 Net cost—is computed by subtracting earned revenue from gross cost, adjusted by the (gain)/loss from changes in 

assumptions. 

Individual agency net cost amounts will differ from the agency’s financial statements primarily because of allocations 

of Office of Personnel Management (OPM) benefit program costs and intragovernmental eliminations, as adjusted for 

buy/sell cost, buy/sell revenues and imputed costs. Because of its specific function, most of the costs originally associated 

with OPM have been allocated to their user agencies for Governmentwide reporting purposes. The remaining costs for OPM 

on the Statements of Net Cost are the administrative operating costs, the expenses from prior and past costs from health and 

pension plan amendments, and the actuarial gains and losses, if applicable. With regard to intragovernmental buy/sell costs 

and related revenues, the amounts recognized by each agency are added to, and subtracted from, respectively, the individual 

agency non-federal net cost amounts. Because of the specific functions of the General Services Administration (GSA), as the 

primary provider of goods and services to federal agencies, once GSA’s net cost is adjusted for its intragovernmental buy/sell 

costs and related revenues, the remaining costs for GSA on the Statements of Net Cost are its administrative operating costs. 

In addition, the intragovernmental imputed costs recognized for the receipt of goods and services, financed in whole or part 

by the providing agencies, are added to the individual agency non-federal net cost amounts. The interest on securities issued 

by the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and held by the public is reported on Treasury’s financial statements, but, 

because of its importance and the dollar amounts involved, it is reported separately in these statements. 

 

1

 For purposes of this document, “Government” refers to the U.S. Government. 
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Statements of Operations and Changes in Net Position 

These statements report the results of Government operations, which include the results of operations for funds from 

dedicated collections. They include nonexchange revenues which are generated from transactions where the government 

gives (or receives) value without giving (or receiving) equal value in return. These are generated principally by the 

Government’s sovereign power to tax, levy duties, and assess fines and penalties. These statements also present the cost of 

Government operations, net of revenue earned from the sale of goods and services to the public (exchange revenue). They 

further include certain adjustments and unreconciled transactions that affect the net position. 

Revenue 

Individual income tax and tax withholdings include Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA)/Self-Employment 

Contributions Act (SECA) taxes and other taxes. These taxes are characterized as nonexchange revenue. 

Excise taxes consist of taxes collected for various items, such as airline tickets, gasoline products, distilled spirits and 

imported liquor, tobacco, firearms, and other items. These also are characterized as nonexchange revenue. 

Other taxes and receipts include Federal Reserve Banks (FRBs) earnings, tax related fines, penalties and interest, and 

railroad retirement taxes. 

Miscellaneous earned revenues consist of earned revenues received from the public with virtually no associated cost. 

These revenues include rents and royalties on the Outer Continental Shelf Lands resulting from the leasing and development 

of mineral resources on public lands. 

Generally, funds from dedicated collections are financed by specifically identified revenues, provided to the 

government by non-federal sources, often supplemented by other financing sources, which remain available over time. These 

specifically identified revenues and other financing sources are required by statute to be used for designated activities, 

benefits or purposes, and must be accounted for separately from the Government’s general revenue. See Note 22—Funds 

from Dedicated Collections for detailed information. 

Intragovernmental interest represents interest earned from the investment of surplus dedicated collections, which 

finance the deficit spending of all other fund’s non-dedicated operations. These investments are recorded as 

intragovernmental debt holdings and are included in Note 12—Federal Debt Securities Held by the Public and Accrued 

Interest, in the table titled Intragovernmental Debt Holdings: Federal Debt Securities Held as Investments by Government 

Accounts. These interest payments and the associated investments are eliminated in the consolidation process. 

Net Cost of Government Operations 

The net cost of Government operations (gross cost [including (gains)/losses from changes in assumptions] less earned 

revenue) flows through from the Statements of Net Cost. The net cost associated with funds from dedicated collections 

activities is separately reported. 

Intragovernmental Transfers 

Intragovernmental transfers reflect budgetary and other financing sources for funds from dedicated collections, 

excluding financing sources related to nonexchange, intragovernmental interest and miscellaneous revenues. These 

intragovernmental transfers include appropriations, transfers and other financing sources. These amounts are labeled as 

“other changes in fund balance” in Note 22—Funds from Dedicated Collections. Some transfers reflect amounts required by 

statute to be transferred from the General Fund of the Treasury to funds from dedicated collections. An example is the annual 

transfer to the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund Medicare 

Parts B and D which received approximately 75 percent and 74 percent, respectively, of 2013 program costs, from the 

General Fund. 
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Unmatched Transactions and Balances 

Unmatched transactions and balances are adjustments needed to bring the change in net position into balance due to 

unreconciled intragovernmental differences and unreconciled General Fund differences, agency reporting errors and 

restatements in the consolidated financial statements. See Note 1.T—Unmatched Transactions and Balances for detailed 

information. 

The unmatched transactions and balances are included in net operating cost to make the sum of net operating costs and 

prior period adjustments for the year equal to the change in the net position balance. 

Net Position, Beginning of Period 

The net position, beginning of period, reflects the net position reported on the prior year’s balance sheet as of the end of 

that fiscal year. The net position for funds from dedicated collections is shown separately. 

Prior-period adjustments are revisions to adjust the beginning net position and balances presented on the prior year 

financial statements due to corrections of errors or changes in accounting principles. See Note 19—Prior Period Adjustments 

for detailed information. 

Net Position, End of Period 

The net position, end of period, amount reflects the net position as of the end of the fiscal year. The net position for 

funds from dedicated collections is separately shown.

Reconciliations of Net Operating Cost and Unified Budget 

Deficit 

These statements reconcile the results of operations (net operating cost) on the Statements of Operations and Changes in 

Net Position to the unified budget deficit. The premise of the reconciliation is that the accrual and budgetary accounting bases 

share transaction data. 

Receipts and outlays in the budget are measured primarily on a cash basis and differ from the accrual basis of 

accounting used in the Financial Report. Refer to Note 1.B—Basis of Accounting and Revenue Recognition for details. 

These statements begin with the net results of operations (net operating cost), where operating revenues are reported on a 

modified cash basis of accounting and the net cost of Government operations on an accrual basis of accounting and report 

activities where the bases of accounting for the components of net operating cost and the unified budget deficit differ. 

Components of Net Operating Cost Not Part of the 

Budget Deficit 

This information includes the operating components, such as the changes in benefits payable for veterans, military 

and civilian employees, the environmental and disposal liabilities, and depreciation expense, not included in the budget 

results. 
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Components of the Budget Deficit Not Part of 

Net Operating Cost 

This information includes the budget components, such as capitalized fixed assets (that are recorded as outlays in the 

budget when purchased and reflected in net operating cost through depreciation expense over the useful life of the asset), and 

increases in other assets that are not included in the operating results.

Statements of Changes in Cash Balance from Unified Budget 

and Other Activities 

The primary purpose of these statements is to report how the annual unified budget deficit relates to the change in the 

Government’s cash and other monetary assets and debt held by the public. It explains why the unified budget deficit normally 

would not result in an equivalent change in the Government’s cash and other monetary assets. 

These statements reconcile the unified budget deficit to the change in cash and other monetary assets during the fiscal 

year and explain how the budget deficits were financed. A budget deficit is the result of outlays (expenditures) exceeding 

receipts (revenue) during a particular fiscal year. 

The budget deficit is primarily financed through borrowings from the public. Other transactions such as the payment 

of interest on debt held by the public also require cash disbursements and are not part of the deficit. The budget deficit 

also includes certain amounts that are recognized in the budget and will be disbursed in a future period or are adjustments 

that did not affect the cash balance. These amounts include interest accrued on debt issued by Treasury and held by the 

public and subsidy expense related to direct and guaranteed loans. 

These statements show the adjustments for noncash outlays included in the budget and items affecting the cash balance 

not included in the budget to explain the change in cash and other monetary assets.

Balance Sheets 

The balance sheets show the Government’s assets, liabilities, and net position. When combined with stewardship 

information, this information presents a more comprehensive understanding of the Government’s financial position. The net 

position for funds from dedicated collections is shown separately. 

Assets 

Assets included on the balance sheets are resources of the Government that remain available to meet future needs. The 

most significant assets that are reported on the balance sheets are loans receivable, net; property, plant, and equipment 

(PP&E), net; inventories and related property, net; and cash and other monetary assets. There are, however, other significant 

resources available to the Government that extend beyond the assets presented in these balance sheets. Those resources 

include the Government’s sovereign powers to tax, and set monetary policy. 

Liabilities and Net Position 

Liabilities are obligations of the Government resulting from prior actions that will require financial resources. The most 

significant liabilities reported on the balance sheets are Federal debt securities held by the public and accrued interest and 

Federal employee and veteran benefits payable. Liabilities also include environmental and disposal liabilities, benefits due 

and payable, and insurance and guarantee program liabilities. 

As with reported assets, the Government’s responsibilities, policy commitments, and contingencies are much broader 

than these reported balance sheet liabilities. They include the social insurance programs reported in the Statements of Social 

Insurance and disclosed in the Required Supplementary Information—Social Insurance section, the fiscal long-term 
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projections of non-interest spending disclosed in the Required Supplementary Information (RSI)—Statement of Fiscal 

Projections for the United States Government (Government) section, and a wide range of other programs under which the 

Government provides benefits and services to the people of this Nation, as well as certain future loss contingencies. 

The Government has entered into contractual commitments requiring the future use of financial resources and has 

unresolved contingencies where existing conditions, situations, or circumstances create uncertainty about future losses. 

Commitments, as well as contingencies that do not meet the criteria for recognition as liabilities on the balance sheets, but for 

which there is at least a reasonable possibility that losses have been incurred, are disclosed in Note 20—Contingencies and 

Note 21—Commitments. 

The collection of taxes and other revenue is credited to the corresponding funds from dedicated collections that will use 

these funds to meet a particular Government purpose. If the collections from taxes and other sources exceed the payments to 

the beneficiaries, the excess revenue is invested in Treasury securities or “loaned” to Treasury’s General Fund; therefore, the

trust fund balances do not represent cash. An explanation of the trust funds for social insurance is included in Note 22—

Funds from Dedicated Collections. That note also contains information about trust fund receipts, disbursements, and assets. 

Because of its sovereign power to tax and borrow, and the country’s wide economic base, the Government has unique 

access to financial resources through generating tax revenues and issuing Federal debt securities. This provides the 

Government with the ability to meet present obligations and those that are anticipated from future operations, and are not 

reflected in net position. 

The net position is the residual difference between assets and liabilities and is the cumulative results of operations since 

inception. For detailed components that comprise the net position, refer to the section “Statement of Operations and Changes 

in Net Position.”

Statements of Social Insurance and Changes in Social 

Insurance Amounts 

The Statements of Social Insurance provide estimates of the status of the most significant social insurance programs: 

Social Security, Medicare, Railroad Retirement, and Black Lung social insurance programs. They are administered by the 

Social Security Administration (SSA), HHS, the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB), and the Department of Labor (DOL), 

respectively. The estimates are actuarial present values2

 of the projections and are based on the economic and demographic 

assumptions representing the trustees’ reasonable estimates as set forth in the relevant Social Security and Medicare trustees’

reports and in the agency financial reports of HHS, SSA, and DOL (Black Lung) and in the relevant agency performance and 

accountability report for the RRB. The projections are based on the continuation of program provisions contained in current 

law. 

The magnitude and complexity of social insurance programs, coupled with the extreme sensitivity of projections 

relating to the many assumptions of the programs, produce a wide range of possible results. In preparing the Statements of 

Social Insurance, Government management considers and selects assumptions and data that it believes provide a reasonable 

basis for the assertions in the statements. However, because of the large number of factors that affect the Statements of Social 

Insurance and the fact that such assumptions are inherently subject to substantial uncertainty (arising from the likelihood of 

future events, significant uncertainties, and contingencies), there will be differences between the estimates in the Statements

of Social Insurance and the actual results, and those differences may be material. Note 24—Social Insurance describes the 

social insurance programs, reports long-range estimates that can be used to assess the financial condition of the programs, 

and explains some of the factors that impact the various programs. The Statements of Changes in Social Insurance Amounts 

reconcile the change between the current valuation period and the prior valuation period.

 

2

 Present values recognize that a dollar paid or collected in the future is worth less than a dollar today, because a dollar today could be invested and earn 

interest. To calculate a present value, future amounts are thus reduced using an assumed interest rate, and those reduced amounts are summed. 
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United States Government 

 Statement of Net Cost 

 for the Year Ended September 30, 2013 (Gain)/Loss 

 from 

 Gross Earned Changes in Net 

 (In billions of dollars) Cost Revenue Subtotal Assumptions Cost 

 

 Department of Health and Human Services ............... 968.4 72.9 895.5 0.2 895.7 

 Social Security Administration .................................... 867.4 0.4 867.0 - 867.0 

 Department of Defense ............................................... 685.1 44.9 640.2 (62.8) 577.4 

 Department of Veterans Affairs ................................... 243.3 4.5 238.8 114.1 352.9 

 Interest on Treasury Securities Held by the Public ..... 247.6 - 247.6 - 247.6 

 Department of Agriculture ........................................... 147.6 7.5 140.1 - 140.1 

 Office of Personnel Management ............................... 67.3 19.2 48.1 81.9 130.0 

 Department of Labor ................................................... 80.1 - 80.1 - 80.1 

 Department of Transportation ..................................... 77.3 0.9 76.4 - 76.4 

 Department of Homeland Security .............................. 70.7 9.7 61.0 (2.4) 58.6 

 Department of Housing and Urban Development ....... 42.6 1.5 41.1 - 41.1 

 Department of Energy ................................................. 38.5 4.3 34.2 - 34.2 

 Department of Justice ................................................. 31.8 1.3 30.5 - 30.5 

 Department of State .................................................... 29.4 4.2 25.2 0.4 25.6 

 National Aeronautics and Space Administration ......... 18.1 0.2 17.9 - 17.9 

 Department of the Interior ........................................... 16.9 2.7 14.2 - 14.2 

 Agency for International Development ........................ 10.6 0.2 10.4 - 10.4 

 Department of Education ............................................ 32.9 23.2 9.7 - 9.7 

 Federal Communications Commission ....................... 9.9 0.4 9.5 - 9.5 

 Railroad Retirement Board ......................................... 13.5 4.2 9.3 - 9.3 

 Environmental Protection Agency ............................... 9.8 0.5 9.3 - 9.3 

 Department of Commerce........................................... 11.1 2.9 8.2 - 8.2 

 National Science Foundation ...................................... 7.1 - 7.1 - 7.1 

 U.S. Postal Service ..................................................... 72.4 66.3 6.1 - 6.1 

 Smithsonian Institution ................................................ 0.8 - 0.8 - 0.8 

 Small Business Administration .................................... 0.7 0.4 0.3 - 0.3 

 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ........................ 1.0 0.8 0.2 - 0.2 

 Export-Import Bank of the United States .................... 1.1 1.0 0.1 - 0.1 

 Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation................ - 0.1 (0.1) - (0.1) 

 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation ....................... 9.1 9.4 (0.3) - (0.3) 

 Securities and Exchange Commission ....................... 1.3 1.8 (0.5) - (0.5) 

 Tennessee Valley Authority ........................................ 10.7 11.0 (0.3) (0.2) (0.5) 

 General Services Administration ................................. 0.1 0.7 (0.6) - (0.6) 

 National Credit Union Administration .......................... (1.8) 0.9 (2.7) - (2.7) 

 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ...................... (2.9) 12.7 (15.6) - (15.6) 

 Department of the Treasury ........................................ 75.3 103.5 (28.2) - (28.2) 

 All other entities .......................................................... 46.1 1.3 44.8 - 44.8 

 Total .................................................................. 3,940.9 415.5 3,525.4 131.2 3,656.6 

 

 The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements. 
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United States Government 

 Statement of Net Cost 

 for the Year Ended September 30, 2012 (See Note 1.U.) Loss 

 from 

 Gross Earned Changes in Net 

 (In billions of dollars) Cost Revenue Subtotal Assumptions Cost 

 

 Department of Health and Human Services ............... 922.4 67.8 854.6 0.3 854.9 

 Social Security Administration .................................... 822.9 0.3 822.6 - 822.6 

 Department of Defense ............................................... 769.6 56.0 713.6 70.4 784.0 

 Department of Veterans Affairs ................................... 209.9 4.1 205.8 149.3 355.1 

 Interest on Treasury Securities Held by the Public ..... 245.4 - 245.4 - 245.4 

 Department of Agriculture ........................................... 158.8 12.0 146.8 - 146.8 

 Office of Personnel Management ............................... 82.0 19.1 62.9 98.9 161.8 

 Department of Labor ................................................... 102.6 - 102.6 - 102.6 

 Department of Transportation ..................................... 77.3 0.8 76.5 - 76.5 

 Department of Homeland Security .............................. 58.9 9.9 49.0 0.4 49.4 

 Department of Housing and Urban Development ....... 74.0 1.5 72.5 - 72.5 

 Department of Energy ................................................. 60.2 4.3 55.9 - 55.9 

 Department of Justice ................................................. 38.8 1.3 37.5 - 37.5 

 Department of State .................................................... 29.5 3.5 26.0 0.8 26.8 

 National Aeronautics and Space Administration ......... 18.1 0.2 17.9 - 17.9 

 Department of the Interior ........................................... 21.7 2.7 19.0 - 19.0 

 Agency for International Development ........................ 11.4 0.2 11.2 - 11.2 

 Department of Education ............................................ 62.6 20.0 42.6 - 42.6 

 Federal Communications Commission ....................... 10.0 0.4 9.6 - 9.6 

 Railroad Retirement Board ......................................... 15.2 5.1 10.1 - 10.1 

 Environmental Protection Agency ............................... 10.7 0.3 10.4 - 10.4 

 Department of Commerce........................................... 12.0 2.6 9.4 - 9.4 

 National Science Foundation ...................................... 7.3 - 7.3 - 7.3 

 U.S. Postal Service ..................................................... 81.5 64.2 17.3 - 17.3 

 Smithsonian Institution ................................................ 0.7 - 0.7 - 0.7 

 Small Business Administration .................................... 1.5 0.4 1.1 - 1.1 

 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ........................ 1.0 0.8 0.2 - 0.2 

 Export-Import Bank of the United States .................... 1.2 0.8 0.4 - 0.4 

 Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation................ - 0.1 (0.1) - (0.1)

 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation ....................... 20.2 10.4 9.8 - 9.8 

 Securities and Exchange Commission ....................... 1.2 1.6 (0.4) - (0.4)

 Tennessee Valley Authority ........................................ 11.0 11.3 (0.3) 0.1 (0.2)

 General Services Administration ................................. 0.1 0.5 (0.4) - (0.4)

 National Credit Union Administration .......................... 1.3 1.0 0.3 - 0.3 

 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ...................... 2.4 19.3 (16.9) - (16.9)

 Department of the Treasury ........................................ (152.9) 27.5 (180.4) - (180.4)

 All other entities .......................................................... 54.4 0.8 53.6 - 53.6 

 Total .................................................................. 3,844.9 350.8 3,494.1 320.2 3,814.3 

 

 The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements. 
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United States Government

Statement of Operations and Changes in Net Position 

for the Year Ended September 30, 2013 

 

 Funds other than Funds from 

 those from Dedicated 

 Dedicated Collections

 Collections (Note 22) 

 (Combined) (Combined) Eliminations Consolidated

(In billions of dollars) 2013 

 

Revenue (Note 18): 

Individual income tax and tax 

withholdings ............................................... 1,294.0 902.4 - 2,196.4 

Corporation income taxes .......................... 270.4 - 270.4 

Excise taxes ............................................... 32.8 52.8 - 85.6 

Unemployment taxes ................................. 54.0 - 54.0 

Customs duties .......................................... 30.6 - 30.6 

Estate and gift taxes .................................. 18.8 - 18.8 

Other taxes and receipts ............................ 139.7 36.4 (0.6) 175.5 

Miscellaneous earned revenues ................ 7.0 4.2 - 11.2 

Intragovernmental interest ......................... - 119.6 (119.6) - 

Total Revenue ............................................ 1,793.3 1,169.4 (120.2) 2,842.5 

 

Net Cost of Government Operations:

Net cost ...................................................... 2,175.2 1,482.0 (0.6) 3,656.6 

Intragovernmental interest ......................... 119.6 - (119.6) - 

Total net cost ............................................. 2,294.8 1,482.0 (120.2) 3,656.6 

 

Intragovernmental transfers ...................... (307.6) 307.6 - - 

 

Unmatched transactions and balances 

   (Note 1.T) .................................................. 9.0 - - 9.0 

 

Net operating (cost)/revenue (800.1) (5.0) - (805.1)

 

Net position, beginning of period ............. (19,248.8) 3,147.8 - (16,101.0)

Prior period adjustments–changes in 

   accounting principles (Note 19) .............. (4.1) 0.9 - (3.2)

Net operating (cost)/revenue ..................... (800.1) (5.0) - (805.1)

Net position, end of period (20,053.0) 3,143.7 - (16,909.3)

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements. 
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United States Government

Statement of Operations and Changes in Net Position 

for the Year Ended September 30, 2012 (Restated - See Note 22) 

 

 Funds other than Funds from 

 those from Dedicated 

 Dedicated Collections

 Collections (Note 22) 

 (Combined) (Combined) Eliminations Consolidated

(In billions of dollars) 2012 

 

Revenue (Note 18): 

Individual income tax and tax 

withholdings .............................................. 1,135.2 789.9 - 1,925.1 

Corporation income taxes ......................... 237.5 - - 237.5 

Excise taxes .............................................. 24.6 56.5 - 81.1 

Unemployment taxes ................................  ‐  66.5  ‐  66.5

Customs duties ......................................... 28.6 - - 28.6 

Estate and gift taxes ................................. 13.9 - - 13.9 

Other taxes and receipts ........................... 115.3 31.3 (0.8) 145.8 

Miscellaneous earned revenues ............... 13.5 6.2 - 19.7 

Intragovernmental interest ........................ - 128.4 (128.4) - 

Total Revenue ........................................... 1,568.6 1,078.8 (129.2) 2,518.2 

 

Net Cost of Government Operations:

Net cost ..................................................... 2,381.8 1,433.3 (0.8) 3,814.3 

Intragovernmental interest ........................ 128.4 - (128.4) - 

Total net cost ............................................ 2,510.2 1,433.3 (129.2) 3,814.3 

 

Intragovernmental transfers ..................... (419.7) 419.7 - - 

 

Unmatched transactions and balances   

   (Note 1.T) ................................................. (20.2) - - (20.2)

 

Net operating (cost)/revenue .................... (1,381.5) 65.2 - (1,316.3)

 

Net position, beginning of period ............ (15,533.6) 748.2 - (14,785.4)

Prior period adjustments–changes in 

   accounting principles (Note 19) ............. (2,333.7) 2,334.4 - 0.7 

Net operating (cost)/revenue .................... (1,381.5) 65.2 - (1,316.3)

Net position, end of period ....................... (19,248.8) 3,147.8 - (16,101.0)

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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United States Government

Reconciliations of Net Operating Cost and Unified Budget Deficit 

for the Year Ended September 30, 2013, and 2012 

 

(In billions of dollars) 2013 2012 

Net operating cost .......................................................................................................... (805.1) (1,316.3)

Components of net operating cost not part of the budget deficit:

(Decrease)/increase in liability for military employee benefits (Note 13): 

   Increase in military pension liabilities .......................................................................... 42.2 120.7 

   (Decrease) in military health liabilities ......................................................................... (85.7) (9.0)

   (Decrease) in other military benefits ........................................................................... (0.4) (0.6)

   (Decrease)/increase in liability for military employee benefits .................................... (43.9) 111.1 

Increase in liability for veteran's compensation (Note 13) ......................................... 213.2 227.9 

Increase in liabilities for civilian employee benefits (Note 13):

Increase in civilian pension liabilities........................................................................... 95.6 152.6 

(Decrease) in civilian health liabilities ......................................................................... (1.4) (14.4)

Increase in other civilian benefits ................................................................................ 0.8 4.6 

Increase in liabilities for civilian employee benefits ..................................................... 95.0 142.8 

Increase in environmental and disposal liabilities (Note 14):

Increase in Energy's environmental and disposal liabilities ........................................ 11.8 17.8 

(Decrease) in all others' environmental and disposal liabilities ................................... (1.7) (2.9)

Increase in environmental and disposal liabilities ....................................................... 10.1 14.9 

Property, plant, and equipment depreciation expense ..................................................... 62.1 59.1 

Property, plant, and equipment disposals and revaluations ............................................ (36.2) 9.4 

Increase/(decrease) in benefits due and payable ............................................................ 8.1 (4.8)

(Decrease) in insurance and guarantee program liabilities .............................................. (26.4) (5.3)

(Decrease)/increase in other liabilities .............................................................................. (20.9) 5.6 

Increase in accounts payable ........................................................................................... 1.0 1.8 

Decrease/(increase) in net accounts and taxes receivable .............................................. 8.0 (4.9)

TARP yearend (downward) re-estimate ........................................................................... (8.1) (9.0)

(Decrease) in liabilities to Government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) ........................... (9.0) (307.2)

(Decrease)/increase in valuation loss on investments in GSEs ....................................... (30.9) 42.3 

Components of the budget surplus (or deficit) that are not part of 

net operating revenue/(or cost): 

Capitalized property, plant, and equipment: 

Department of Defense .................................................................................................. (37.0) (33.6)

All other agencies .......................................................................................................... (30.6) (37.1)

 Total capitalized property, plant, and equipment ........................................................ (67.6) (70.7)

Effect of prior year TARP downward/(upward) re-estimate .............................................. 9.0 (23.3)

(Increase) in inventory ...................................................................................................... (12.1) (2.9)

(Increase) in investments in GSEs ................................................................................... - (18.6)

Decrease in debt and equity securities............................................................................. 2.4 0.4 

(Increase)/decrease in other assets ................................................................................. (5.2) 21.7 

Credit reform and other loan activities .............................................................................. (25.4) 38.6 

All other reconciling items ................................................................................................. 1.6 (2.0)

Unified budget deficit (680.3) (1,089.4)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements. 

 

           
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United States Government

Statements of Changes in Cash Balance from Unified Budget and Other Activities 

for the Years Ended September 30, 2013, and 2012 

 

(In billions of dollars) 2013 2012 

 

Unified budget deficit ............................................................ (680.3) (1,089.4)

 

Adjustments for Noncash Outlays Included in the budget: 

 

Interest accrued by Treasury on debt held by the public ...... 242.7 240.1 

TARP yearend re-estimates ................................................... (0.9) 32.3 

TARP Subsidy (income) (Note 5) .......................................... (11.9) (10.8) 

Other Federal entity subsidy (income) (Note 4) ..................... (63.4) (29.4) 

   Subtotal ............................................................................... 166.5 232.2

 

Items Affecting the Cash Balance Not Included in the budget: 

Net Transactions from financing activity: 

Borrowings from the public ................................................... 8,145.4 7,766.9 

Repayment of debt held by the public .................................. (7,444.0) (6,614.0)

Agency securities ................................................................... 0.7 (0.4) 

   Subtotal ............................................................................... 702.1 1,152.5

Transactions from monetary and other activity: 

Interest paid by Treasury on debt held by the public ............ (248.7) (234.3) 

Net TARP direct loans and equity investments activity ......... 31.7 52.3 

Net GSEs-mortgage-backed securities activity ..................... - 70.6 

Net loan receivable activity .................................................... (125.6) (153.7) 

Allocations of special drawing rights ...................................... (0.2) (0.7) 

Uninvested principal from the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) G 

Fund ....................................................................................... 119.9 - 

Other ...................................................................................... 34.7 (0.3)

   Subtotal ............................................................................... (188.2) (266.1)

 

Cash and other monetary assets: (Note 2)

Increase in Cash and other monetary assets ........................ 0.1 29.2

Balance, beginning of period ................................................. 206.2 177.0

Balance, end of period ........................................................... 206.3 206.2

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements. 

 

For budgetary purposes, the effect of the yearend downward re-estimates (reduction of net outlays) and upward re-estimates 

(increase of net outlays) is not recognized until the subsequent fiscal year. 
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United States Government               

Balance Sheets               

as of September 30               

          2012 

          (Restated

(In billions of dollars) 2013 Note 22) 

Assets: 

   Cash and other monetary assets (Note 2) ...................................................... 206.3 206.2 

   Accounts and taxes receivable, net (Note 3) .................................................. 103.2 111.2 

   Loans receivable, net (Note 4) ........................................................................ 1,022.3 859.6 

   TARP direct loans and equity investments, net (Note 5) ................................ 17.9 40.2 

   Inventories and related property, net (Note 6) ................................................ 311.1 299.0 

   Property, plant and equipment, net (Note 7) ................................................... 896.7 855.0 

   Debt and equity securities (Note 8) ................................................................ 107.8 110.2 

   Investments in GSEs (Note 9) ........................................................................ 140.2 109.3 

   Other assets (Note 10) .................................................................................... 162.8 157.6 

      Total assets .................................................................................................. 2,968.3 2,748.3 

   Stewardship land and heritage assets (Note 25) 

Liabilities: 

   Accounts payable (Note 11)............................................................................ 66.2 65.2 

   Federal debt securities held by the public and accrued interest (Note 12) .... 12,028.4 11,332.3 

   Federal employee and veteran benefits payable (Note 13) ............................ 6,538.3 6,274.0 

   Environmental and disposal liabilities (Note 14) ............................................. 349.1 339.0 

   Benefits due and payable (Note 15) ............................................................... 174.3 166.2 

   Insurance and guarantee program liabilities (Note 16) .................................. 130.0 156.4 

   Loan guarantee liabilities (Note 4) .................................................................. 59.2 74.6 

   Liabilities to GSEs (Note 9) ............................................................................. - 9.0 

   Other liabilities (Note 17) ................................................................................ 532.1 432.6 

   Total liabilities ............................................................................................... 19,877.6 18,849.3 

   Contingencies (Note 20) and Commitments (Note 21) 

Net Position: 

   Funds from Dedicated Collections (Note 22) .................................................. 3,143.7 3,147.8 

   Funds other than those from Dedicated Collections ....................................... (20,053.0) (19,248.8)

      Total net position .......................................................................................... (16,909.3) (16,101.0)

      Total liabilities and net position .................................................................... 2,968.3 2,748.3 

                 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.               
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United States Government

Statements of Social Insurance (Note 24) 

Present Value of Long-Range (75 Years, except Black Lung) Actuarial Projections 

(In billions of dollars) 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009

 Federal Old-age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (Social 

Security): 14 

Revenue (Contributions and Dedicated Taxes) from: 

 Participants who have attained eligibility age (age 62 and over) ......... 908 847 726 672 575 

 Participants who have not attained eligibility age ................................ 24,591 22,703 20,734 19,914 18,559 

 Future participants ............................................................................... 23,419 21,649 20,144 19,532 18,082 

 All current and future participants ..................................................... 48,918 45,198 41,603 40,118 37,217 

 Expenditures for Scheduled Future Benefits for: 

 Participants who have attained eligibility age (age 62 and over) ......... (11,021) (9,834) (8,618) (8,096) (7,465)

 Participants who have not attained eligibility age ................................ (40,591) (37,753) (34,042) (32,225) (30,207)

 Future participants ............................................................................... (9,600) (8,890) (8,100) (7,744) (7,223)

 All current and future participants ..................................................... (61,212) (56,477) (50,760) (48,065) (44,894)

 Present value of future expenditures in excess of future 

 revenue ............................................................................................ (12,294)1 (11,278)2 (9,157)3 (7,947)4 (7,677)5

Federal Hospital Insurance (Medicare Part A): 14 

 Revenue (Contributions and Dedicated Taxes) from:

 Participants who have attained eligibility age (age 65 and over) ......... 301 302 262 248 209 

Participants who have not attained eligibility age ................................ 8,147 7,929 7,581 7,216 6,348 

Future participants ............................................................................... 7,744 7,367 7,260 6,944 5,451 

All current and future participants ........................................................ 16,192 15,598 15,104 14,408 12,008 

Expenditures for Scheduled Future Benefits for:

Participants who have attained eligibility age (age 65 and over) ......... (3,422) (3,369) (2,923) (2,648) (2,958)

Participants who have not attained eligibility age ................................ (14,629) (14,919) (12,887) (12,032) (18,147)

Future participants ............................................................................... (2,913) (2,891) (2,546) (2,411) (4,673)

 All current and future participants ..................................................... (20,964) (21,179) (18,356) (17,091) (25,778)

Present value of future expenditures in excess of future 

revenue ............................................................................................ (4,772)1 (5,581)2 (3,252)3 (2,683)4 (13,770)5

Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance (Medicare Part B): 14 

 Revenue (Premiums) from:

 Participants who have attained eligibility age (age 65 and over) ......... 701 635 570 538 498 

Participants who have not attained eligibility age ................................ 4,073 3,826 3,651 3,460 4,224 

Future participants ............................................................................... 944 884 865 839 1,270 

 All current and future participants ..................................................... 5,718 5,344 5,086 4,836 5,992 

Expenditures for Scheduled Future Benefits for:

Participants who have attained eligibility age (age 65 and over) ......... (2,887) (2,646) (2,343) (2,166) (2,142)

Participants who have not attained eligibility age ................................ (15,075) (14,303) (13,489) (12,587) (16,342)

Future participants ............................................................................... (3,415) (3,211) (3,108) (2,984) (4,672)

 All current and future participants ..................................................... (21,377) (20,159) (18,940) (17,737) (23,156)

Present value of future expenditures in excess of future 

revenue 6 .......................................................................................... (15,659)1 (14,815)2 (13,854)3 (12,901)4 (17,165)5

 

Totals may not equal the sum of components due to rounding. 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements. 
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Statements of Social Insurance (Note 24), continued 

Present Value of Long-Range (75 Years, except Black Lung) Actuarial Projections 

(In billions of dollars) 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009

 

Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance (Medicare Part D): 14

Revenue (Premiums and State Transfers) from:

Participants who have attained eligibility age (age 65 and over) ..... 184 179 173 165 140

Participants who have not attained eligibility age ............................ 1,491 1,510 1,608 1,626 1,442

Future participants ........................................................................... 665 661 703 694 618

 All current and future participants ................................................. 2,340 2,349 2,484 2,486 2,199

Expenditures for Scheduled Future Benefits for:

Participants who have attained eligibility age (age 65 and over) ..... (722) (694) (695) (646) (595)

Participants who have not attained eligibility age ............................ (5,871) (5,866) (6,438) (6,355) (6,144)

Future participants ........................................................................... (2,617) (2,568) (2,817) (2,714) (2,632)

 All current and future participants ................................................. (9,211) (9,128) (9,950) (9,715) (9,371)

Present value of future expenditures in excess of future 

 revenue 6

 .................................................................................................. (6,871)1 (6,778)2 (7,466)3 (7,229)4 (7,172)5

 

Railroad Retirement:

Revenue (Contributions and Dedicated Taxes) from :

Participants who have attained eligibility ......................................... 7 7 6 5 5

Participants who have not attained eligibility ................................... 60 56 46 47 48

Future participants ........................................................................... 79 78 65 66 70

 All current and future participants ................................................. 146 141 117 118 123

Expenditures for Scheduled Future Benefits for:

Participants who have attained eligibility (123) (119) (109) (105) (102)

Participants who have not attained eligibility ................................... (96) (95) (86) (88) (91)

Future participants ........................................................................... (34) (34) (28) (27) (30)

 All current and future participants ................................................. (253) (248) (223) (220) (223)

Present value of future expenditures in excess of future 

revenue 7 .................................................................................................. (107)1 (107)2 (106)3 (103)4 (100)5

 

Black Lung (Part C):

Present value of future revenue in excess of future 

expenditures 8 ............................................................................................. 59 510 511 612 613

 

Total present value of future expenditures in excess of future 

revenue .............................................................................................. (39,698) (38,554) (33,830) (30,857) (45,878)

Totals may not equal the sum of components due to rounding.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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Statements of Social Insurance (Note 24), continued

Present Value of Long-Range (75 Years, except Black Lung) Actuarial Projections

 

(In billions of dollars) 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 

Social Insurance Summary 14   

Participants who have attained eligibility age:   

Revenue (e.g., Contributions and dedicated taxes) ......................... 2,101 1,970 1,737 1,628 1,427 

Expenditures for scheduled future benefits ..................................... (18,175) (16,662) (14,688) (13,661) (13,262)

 Present value of future expenditures in excess of future revenue ........................................................................... (16,074) (14,692) (12,951) (12,033) (11,835)

Participants who have not attained eligibility age: 

Revenue (e.g., Contributions and dedicated taxes) ......................... 38,362 36,024 33,620 32,263 30,621 Expenditures for scheduled future benefits ..................................... (76,262) (72,936) (66,942) (63,287) (70,931) Present value of future expenditures in excess of future revenue ........................................................................... (37,900) (36,912) (33,322) (31,024) (40,310) 

 Closed-group – Total present value of future expenditures in excess of future revenue ....................................................... (53,974) (51,604) (46,272) (43,057) (52,145) 

 Future participants: Revenue (e.g., Contributions and dedicated taxes) ......................... 32,851 30,639 29,037 28,075 25,491 Expenditures for scheduled future benefits ..................................... (18,575) (17,589) (16,594) (15,875) (19,224) Present value of future revenue in excess of future expenditure................................................................................ 14,276 13,050 12,443 12,200 6,267 

Open-group – Total present value of future expenditures in 

excess of future revenue ................................................................. (39,698) (38,554) (33,830) (30,857) (45,878)

1   The projection period is 1/1/2013‐12/31/2087 and the valuation date is 1/1/2013. 2   The projection period is 1/1/2012‐12/31/2086 and the valuation date is 1/1/2012. 3   The projection period is 1/1/2011‐12/31/2085 and the valuation date is 1/1/2011. 4   The projection period is 1/1/2010‐12/31/2084 and the valuation date is 1/1/2010. 5   The projection period is 1/1/2009‐12/31/2083 and the valuation date is 1/1/2009. 6   These amounts represent the present value of the future transfers from the General Fund of the Treasury to the Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust

Fund. These future intragovernmental transfers are included as income in both HHS’ and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Financial Reports

but are not income from the Governmentwide perspective of this report. 7   These amounts approximate the present value of the future financial interchange and the future advances from the General Fund of the Treasury to the

Social Security Equivalent Benefit Account and future repayments from the Social Security Equivalent Benefit Account to the General Fund (see discussion

of Railroad Retirement Program in the unaudited required supplementary information section of this report). They are included as income in the Railroad

Retirement Financial Report but are not income from the Governmentwide perspective of this report. 8   Does not include interest expense accruing on the outstanding debt. 9   The projection period is 9/30/2013‐9/30/2040 and the valuation date is 9/30/2013. 10   The projection period is 9/30/2012‐9/30/2040 and the valuation date is 9/30/2012. 11   The projection period is 9/30/2011‐9/30/2040 and the valuation date is 9/30/2011. 12   The projection period is 9/30/2010‐9/30/2040 and the valuation date is 9/30/2010. 13   The projection period is 9/30/2009‐9/30/2040 and the valuation date is 9/30/2009. 14   Current participants for the Social Security and Medicare programs are assumed to be the “closed‐group” of individuals who are at least 15 years of age

at the start of the projection period, and are participating as either taxpayers, beneficiaries, or both.      

Totals may not equal the sum of components due to rounding.      

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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United States Government

Statement of Changes in Social Insurance Amounts 

for the Year Ended September 30, 2013 (Note 24) 

 

 

 Social Medicare Medicare 

(In billions of dollars) Security1 HI1 SMI1 Other2 Total

 

Net present value (NPV) of future revenue less              

future expenditures for current and future 

 participants (the “open group”) over the next 75              

years, beginning of the year .................................. (11,278) (5,581) (21,593) (102) (38,554)

Reasons for changes in the NPV during the year: 

Changes in valuation period ................................... (543) (285) (983) (2) (1,813)

Changes in demographic data and              

   assumptions ........................................................ (681) 724 (330) 2 (285)

Changes in economic data and assumptions (273) - - (273)

Changes in law or policy ......................................... (553) 31 2 - (520)

Changes in methodology and              

   programmatic data .............................................. 1,034 - - - 1,034 

Changes in economic and other health care              

   assumptions ........................................................ - 31 (125) - (94)

Change in projection base ...................................... - 308 499 - 807 

Net change in open group measure (1,016) 809 (937) - (1,144)

Open group measure, end of year .............................. (12,294) (4,772) (22,530) (102) (39,698)

 

Totals may not equal the sum of components due to rounding. 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements. 

 

1 Amounts represent changes between valuation dates 1/1/2012 and 1/1/2013. 

2 Includes Railroad Retirement changes between valuation dates 1/1/2012 and 1/1/2013 and Black Lung changes between 9/30/2012 and

9/30/2013. 
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Statement of Changes in Social Insurance Amounts 

for the Year Ended September 30, 2012 (Note 24) 

 

 

 Social Medicare Medicare 

(In billions of dollars) Security1 HI1 SMI1 Other2 Total

 

Net present value (NPV) of future revenue less            

future expenditures for current and future 

 participants (the “open group”) over the next 75            

years, beginning of the year ................................. (9,157) (3,252) (21,320) (101) (33,830)

Reasons for changes in the NPV during the year: 

 Change in valuation period .................................... (473) (125) (1,013) (2) (1,613)

Changes in demographic data and assumptions .. (140) (97) 752 3 518

Changes in economic data and assumptions ....... (1,037) - - (2) (1,039)

Changes in law or policy ........................................ - 153 40 - 193

Changes in methodology and programmatic data . (471) - - - (471)

Changes in economic and other health care 

 assumptions .......................................................... - (2,546) (55) - (2,601)

Change in projection base ..................................... - 286 3 289

Net change in open group measure ...................... (2,121) (2,329) (273) (1) (4,724)

Open group measure, end of year ............................ (11,278) (5,581) (21,593) (102) (38,554)

 

Totals may not equal the sum of components due to rounding.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements. 

1 Amounts represent changes between valuation dates 1/1/2011 and 1/1/2012.    2 Includes Railroad Retirement changes between valuation dates 1/1/2011 and 1/1/2012 and Black Lung changes between 9/30/2011 and

9/30/12. 

                    

                       

                       
 

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INTRODUCTION: Airport and Airway Trust Fund 

The Airport and Airway Trust Fund was established on 

the books of Treasury in fiscal year 1971, according to 

provisions of the Airport and Airway Revenue Act of 1970 

[49 United States Code 1742(a), repealed]. The Tax Equity 

and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (Public Law 97-248, 

dated September 3, 1982) reestablished the trust fund in the 

Internal Revenue Code (26 United States Code 9502) 

effective September 1, 1982. 

Treasury transfers from the general fund to the trust 

fund amounts equivalent to the taxes received from 

transportation of persons and property by air, gasoline and 

jet fuel used in commercial and noncommercial aircraft, 

and an international arrival and departure tax. The Omnibus 

Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-508, 

dated November 5, 1990) increased rates for the excise 

taxes transferred to the fund. 

Treasury bases these transfers on estimates made by the 

Secretary of the Treasury. These are subject to adjustments 

in later transfers in the amount of actual tax receipts. 

The FAA Modernization and Reform Act 2012 (Public 

Law 112-095), effective February 14, 2012, extended the 

aviation excise taxes until September 30, 2015. The Act 

included provisions that: 

 Retained the existing passenger ticket, flight 

segment, and freight waybill taxes. The flight segment tax 

is indexed to the Consumer Price Index; effective calendar 

year 2014, the tax is $4.00. It also retained a special rule 

applied to flights between the continental United States and 

Alaska or Hawaii. This departure tax is indexed to the 

Consumer Price Index; effective calendar year 2014, the tax 

is $8.70. 

 Retained the existing tax per person for 

international flights that begin or end in the United States. 

The tax is indexed to the Consumer Price Index; effective 

calendar year 2014, the tax is $17.50. 

 Retained the existing tax on payments to airlines 

for frequent flyer and similar awards by banks and credit 

card companies, merchants and frequent flyer program 

partners, such as other airlines, hotels and rental car 

companies, and other businesses. 

 Retained the commercial aviation fuel tax and the 

general aviation jet fuel/gas taxes. 

 Imposed a new surtax on fuel used in aircraft that is 

part of a fractional ownership program; the surtax applies to 

fuel used after March 31, 2012. It also changed the 

classification of transportation as part of a fractional 

ownership program from commercial aviation to 

noncommercial aviation. 

 Repealed the excise tax exemption for 

transportation by small aircraft operating on nonestablished 

lines. (IRS defines the term “operated on an established 

line” to mean operated with some degree of regularity 

between definite points). 

When the provisions of 26 United States Code 9602(b) 

are met, amounts available in the trust fund exceed outlay 

requirements, Treasury invests excess amounts in public 

debt securities and credits the interest to the fund. 

Additional sums from the general fund also are credited as 

authorized and made available, by law, if they are needed to 

meet outlay requirements. 

Treasury makes available to the Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), Department of Transportation 

(DOT), amounts required for outlays to carry out the 

Airport and Airway program. The Secretary of the Treasury 

makes other charges to the trust fund to transfer certain 

refunds of taxes and certain outfits, under section 34 of the 

Internal Revenue Code (IRC). 

Annual reports to Congress, required by 26 U.S.C. 9602 

(a), are submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, after 

consultation with the Secretary of Transportation. These 

reports are required to cover the financial condition and 

results of operations of the trust fund during the past fiscal 

year and those expected during the next 5 fiscal years. 
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TABLE TF-1.—Airport and Airway Trust Fund 

Results of Operations, Fiscal Year 2013 

[Source: DOT] 

Description IRC section (26 United States Code) Amount

Balance Oct. 1, 2012* ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... $11,623,031,953

Receipts: 

Excise taxes (transferred from general fund): Liquid fuel in a fractional ownership flight............................................. 4043...................................................................................... 8,920,522

Liquid fuel other than gasoline.............................................................. 4041...................................................................................... 548,702,810

Gasoline................................................................................................ 4081...................................................................................... 14,665,328

Transportation by airseats, berths, etc ................................................. 4261 (a) (b)........................................................................... 8,769,362,010

Use of international travel facilities ....................................................... 4261 (c)................................................................................. 2,911,287,681

Transportation of property, cargo ......................................................... 4271 ...................................................................................... 618,896,419

Gross excise taxes ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 12,871,834,769

Less refunds of taxes (reimbursed to general fund): Liquid fuel other than gasoline.................................................................. 4041...................................................................................... 13,260,754

Gasoline ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5,014,220

Total refunds of taxes ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 18,274,974

Net taxes ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 12,853,559,795

Interest on investments ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 234,670,305

Total receipts .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 13,088,230,100

Offsetting collections ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 110,000,000

Expenses: Operations .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 4,796,000,000

Grants in aid................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 3,653,396,193

Facilities and equipment............................................................................................................................................................................................. 2,848,772,426

Research, engineering, and development.................................................................................................................................................................. 158,301,077

Air carriers ................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 161,000,000

Total expenses ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 11,617,469,696

Offsetting collections ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 110,000,000

Balance Sept. 30, 2013 .................................................................................................................................................................................................. $13,203,792,357

*Adjusted for actuals 

Airport and Airway Trust Fund 

Expected Condition and Results of Operations, Fiscal Years 2014-2018 

[In millions of dollars. Source: DOT] 

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Balance Oct. 1 ............................................................................ 13,203 13,523 12,889 13,071 13,677

Receipts: 

Excise taxes, net of refunds.................................................... 13,347 13,814 14,407 14,926 15,426

Interest on investments........................................................... 248 254 258 310 393

$100 Surcharge ...................................................................... - 967 1,008 1,050 1,089

Offsetting collections............................................................... 46 46 46 46 46

Total receipts ...................................................................... 13,641 15,081 15,719 16,332 16,954

Expenses: 

Gross Outlays ......................................................................... 13,321 15,714 15,537 15,726 15,739

Balance Sept. 30......................................................................... 13,523 12,889 13,071 13,677 14,892

 
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INTRODUCTION: Uranium Enrichment 

Decontamination and Decommissioning (D&D) Fund 

The Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and 

Decommissioning Fund was established on the books of the 

Treasury in fiscal year 1993, according to provisions of the 

Energy Policy Act of 1992 (42 United States Code 2297g). 

Receipts represent (1) fees collected from domestic public 

utilities based on their pro rata share of purchases of 

separative work units from the Department of Energy (DOE) 

and (2) appropriations toward the Government contribution 

based on the balance of separative work unit purchases. 

Expenditures from the fund are for the purpose of (1) 

decontamination and decommissioning of the three gaseous 

diffusion plants, (2) remedial actions and related 

environmental restoration costs at the gaseous diffusion 

plants, and (3) reimbursement to uranium/thorium producers 

for the costs of decontamination, decommissioning, 

reclamation, and remedial action of uranium/thorium sites 

that are incident to sales to the U.S. Government. 

Amounts available in the fund exceeding current needs 

may be invested by the Secretary of the Treasury in 

obligations of the United States (1) having maturities 

congruent with the needs of the fund and (2) bearing interest 

at rates determined appropriate, taking into consideration the 

current average market yield on outstanding marketable 

obligations of the United States with remaining periods to 

maturity comparable to these investments. 

The Secretary of the Treasury is required by 42 United 

States Code 2297g(b)(1) to provide an annual report to 

Congress, after consultation with the Secretary of Energy. 

This report must present the financial condition and the 

results of operations of the fund during the preceding fiscal 

year. 

The Energy Policy Act of 1992 (42 United States Code 

2297g-1, as amended) authorizes funding to ensure annual 

deposits to the fund of $518.2 million before adjustments for 

inflation. The Act stipulates that the Government deposit 

$369.6 million, adjusted for inflation, annually. The Act also 

calls for deposits of $150 million from domestic public 

utility assessments. The assessments were authorized for 15 

years with the final assessment scheduled for fiscal year 

2007. 

Between fiscal years 1993 and 2007, the total 

Government contribution amount authorized by the Act was 

$6,281.0 million. During that time span, the Government 

contributed only $5,362.4 million to the fund. The resulting 

shortfall in authorized Government contributions was, 

therefore, $918.6 million. 

The Government continued to make annual contributions 

to eliminate this shortfall. Through fiscal year 2009 

contributions, the overall shortfall (after adjustments for 

inflation) was $40.6 million. Also, during fiscal year 2009, 

the Government designated $390 million of American 

Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding for the 

fund’s mission. The ARRA funding was not an actual 

deposit into the fund’s invested balances, but it provides a 

dollar for dollar reduction in the required outlays from the 

invested balances. The DOE recognizes the ARRA funding 

as an offset to the Government’s contribution shortfall, 

thereby satisfying the Government’s contribution responsibility. 
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TABLE TF-2.—Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund 

Results of Operations, Fiscal Year 2013 

[Source: DOE] 

Balance Oct. 1, 2012 ................................................................................................................................................................................. $4,990,361

Receipts: 

Fees collected........................................................................................................................................................................................ -

Penalties collected ................................................................................................................................................................................. -

Interest on investments.......................................................................................................................................................................... 87,831,653

Total receipts...................................................................................................................................................................................... 87,831,653

Outlays: 

DOE, decontamination and decommissioning activities........................................................................................................................ 426,682,510 

Cost of investments................................................................................................................................................................................ -338,812,051

Total outlays....................................................................................................................................................................................... 87,870,459

Balance Sept. 30, 2013 .............................................................................................................................................................................. $4,951,555

Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund 

Expected Condition and Results of Operations, Fiscal Years 2014-2018 

[In thousands of dollars. Source: DOE] 

 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Balance Oct. 1 ......................................................................... 4,952 4,952 4,952 4,952 4,952

Receipts: 

Fees collected...................................................................... -----

Interest collected.................................................................. 62,370 52,248 41,729 30,804 19,460

Total receipts ................................................................... 62,370 52,248 41,729 30,804 19,460

Outlays: 

DOE, decontamination and decommissioning fund ............ 554,823 568,509 578,174 588,003 597,999

Costs of investments ........................................................... -492,453 -516,261 -536,445 -557,199 -578,539

Total outlays..................................................................... 62,370 52,248 41,729 30,804 19,460

Balance Sept. 30...................................................................... 4,952 4,952 4,952 4,952 4,952
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INTRODUCTION: Black Lung Disability Trust Fund 

The Black Lung Disability Trust Fund was established on 

the books of the Treasury in fiscal year 1978 according to the 

Black Lung Benefits Revenue Act of 1977 (Public Law 95-

227). The Black Lung Benefits Revenue Act of 1981 (Public 

Law 97-119) reestablished the fund in the Internal Revenue 

Code (IRC), 26 United States Code 9501. 

The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 

1985 (Public Law 99-272), enacted April 7, 1986, provided 

for an increase in the coal tax rates effective April 1, 1986, 

through December 31, 1995, and a 5-year forgiveness of 

interest retroactive to October 1, 1985. The 5-year moratorium 

on interest payments ended on September 30, 1990. Payment 

of interest on advances resumed in fiscal year 1991. The 

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (Public Law 

100-203, title X, section 10503), signed December 22, 1987, 

extended the temporary increase in the coal tax through 

December 31, 2013. 

The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 

(Public Law 110-343, title I, subtitle B, section 113), enacted 

October 3, 2008, restructured the Trust Fund Debt by 1) 

refinancing the outstanding principal of the repayable 

advances and unpaid interest on such advances and 2) 

providing a one time Appropriation to the Trust Fund in an 

amount sufficient to pay to the general fund of the Treasury 

the difference between the market value of the outstanding 

repayable advances, plus accrued interest and the proceeds 

from the obligations issued by the Trust Fund to the 

Secretary of the Treasury. The Act also extends the 

temporary increase in the coal tax through December 31, 

2018, and allows the prepayment of the Trust Fund debt 

prior to the maturity date. 

The Code designates the following receipts to be 

appropriated and transferred from the general fund of the 

Treasury to the trust fund: excise taxes on coal sold; taxable 

expenditures of self-dealing by, and excess contributions to, 

private black lung benefit trusts; reimbursements by 

responsible mine operators; and related fines, penalties and 

interest charges. 

Estimates made by the Secretary of the Treasury 

determine monthly transfers of amounts for excise taxes to the 

trust fund subject to adjustments in later transfers to actual tax 

receipts. 

After retirement of the current indebtedness, amounts 

available in the fund exceeding current expenditure 

requirements will be invested by the Secretary of the Treasury 

in interest-bearing public debt securities. Any interest earned 

will be credited to the fund. Also credited, if necessary, will 

be repayable advances from the general fund to meet outlay 

requirements exceeding available revenues. 

To carry out the program, amounts are made available to 

the Department of Labor (DOL). Also charged to the fund are 

administrative expenses incurred by the Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS) and the Treasury, repayments of 

advances from the general fund and interest on advances. 

The Code requires the Secretary of the Treasury to submit 

an annual report to Congress after consultation with the 

Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of HHS [26 United 

States Code 9602(a)]. The report must present the financial 

condition and results of operations of the fund during the past 

fiscal year and the expected condition and operations of the 

fund during the next 5 fiscal years. 
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TABLE TF-3.—Black Lung Disability Trust Fund 

Results of Operations, Fiscal Year 2013 

[Source: DOL] 

Balance Oct. 1, 2012 ........................................................................................................................................................................................... $96,917,182

Receipts: 

Excise taxes (transferred from general fund): 

$1.10 tax on underground coal .................................................................................................................................................................... 256,993,968

$0.55 tax on surface coal............................................................................................................................................................................. 199,413,053

4.4 percent tax on underground coal........................................................................................................................................................... 6,121,800

4.4 percent tax on surface coal.................................................................................................................................................................... 70,700,511

Fines, penalties, and interest....................................................................................................................................................................... 905,669

Collection—responsible mine operators...................................................................................................................................................... 19,236,759

Recovery of prior year funds........................................................................................................................................................................ -

Repayable advances from the general fund ................................................................................................................................................ 401,000,000

Total receipts ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 954,371,760

Net receipts .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 954,371,760

Outlays: 

Treasury administrative expenses ................................................................................................................................................................... 527,385

Salaries and expenses—DOL—Departmental Management.......................................................................................................................... 23,930,933

Salaries and expenses—DOL—Office of Inspector General .......................................................................................................................... 310,323

Salaries and expenses—DOL—Employment Standards Administration ........................................................................................................ 31,227,793

Total outlays ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 55,996,434

Expenses: 

Program expenses—DOL................................................................................................................................................................................ 199,691,308

Repayable advances and interest ................................................................................................................................................................... 214,372,360

Repayment of bond principal ........................................................................................................................................................................... 396,403,116

Interest on principal debt .................................................................................................................................................................................. 56,035,884

Total expenses ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 866,502,668

Balance Sept. 30, 2013 ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 128,789,840

Cumulative debt, end of year ............................................................................................................................................................................... $4,634,844,901

 

Black Lung Disability Trust Fund 

Expected Condition and Results of Operations, Fiscal Years 2014-2018 

[In thousands of dollars. Source: DOL] 

 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Balance Oct. 1 ........................................................................................ 128,790 128,790 128,790 128,790 128,790

Receipts: 

Excise taxes....................................................................................... 562,000 572,000 547,000 550,000 570,000

Advances from the general fund........................................................ 541,696 685,087 872,329 1,081,100 1,298,248

Fines, penalties, and interest ............................................................. 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000

Total receipts ................................................................................. 1,105,696 1,259,087 1,421,329 1,633,100 1,870,248

Outlays: 

Benefit payments ............................................................................... 172,373 163,733 154,823 146,392 139,236

Administrative expenses.................................................................... 59,081 60,074 60,074 60,074 60,074

Repayable advances ......................................................................... 401,000 541,696 685,087 872,329 1,081,100

Interest on repayable advances ........................................................ 393 975 3,836 13,783 29,190

Repayment of principal debt.............................................................. 397,383 395,769 396,213 393,126 385,968

Interest on principal debt ................................................................... 75,466 96,840 121,295 147,397 174,680

Total outlays ................................................................................... 1,105,696 1,259,087 1,421,328 1,633,101 1,870,248

Balance Sept. 30.................................................................................... 128,790 128,790 128,791 128,789 128,790

Cumulative debt, end of year ................................................................. 4,237,462 3,841,693 3,445,480 3,052,354 2,666,386

Note.—Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. 
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INTRODUCTION: Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund 

The Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund was established on 

the books of the Treasury on April 1, 1987, according to the 

Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-

662, November 17, 1986) (26 United States Code 9505). 

Amounts in the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund are 

available as provided by appropriation acts for making 

expenditures to carry out section 210(a) of the Water 

Resources Development Act of 1986. The appropriations act 

for the Department of Transportation (DOT) for fiscal year 

1995 (Public Law 103-331, September 28, 1994), section 

339, waived collection of charges or tolls on the Saint 

Lawrence Seaway in accordance with section 13(b) of the 

Act of May 13, 1954 (as in effect on April 1, 1987). 

Legislation was passed in the North American Free Trade 

Agreement Implementation Act (Public Law 103-182, 

section 683), which amends paragraph (3) of section 9505(c) 

of the IRC of 1986, to authorize payment of up to $5 million 

annually to Treasury for all expenses of administration 

incurred by the Treasury, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 

and the Department of Commerce (Commerce) related to the 

administration of subchapter A of chapter 36 (relating to 

harbor maintenance tax). Section 201 of the Water 

Resources Development Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-303) 

authorizes use of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for 

construction of dredged material disposal facilities 

associated with the operation and maintenance of Federal 

navigation projects for commercial navigation. 

A summary judgment issued October 25, 1995, by the 

United States Court of International Trade in the case United 

States Shoe Corp. v. United States (Court No. 94-11-00668) 

found the Harbor Maintenance fee unconstitutional under the 

Export Clause of the Constitution (Article I, section 9, clause 

5) and enjoined the Customs Service from collecting the fee. 

The decision was affirmed by the Supreme Court on 

March 31, 1998 (118 Supreme Court 1290). With the tax on 

exports no longer collected, revenues have been reduced by 

approximately 30 percent. 

The Code requires the Secretary of the Treasury to 

submit an annual report to Congress [26 United States Code 

9602(a)]. The report must present the financial condition and 

results of operations of the fund during the past fiscal year 

and the expected condition and operations of the fund during 

the next 5 fiscal years. 

TABLE TF-4.—Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund 

Results of Operations, Fiscal Year 2013 

[Source: Department of the Army Corps of Engineers] 

Balance Oct. 1, 2012*............................................................................................................................................................................................................. $6,950,042,771 

Receipts: 

Excise taxes: 

Imports ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1,139,832,309

Exports............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... -

Domestic ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 122,800,912

Passengers ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 11,843,062

Foreign trade...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 248,827,286

Interest on investments...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 172,714,203 

Total receipts............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1,696,017,772 

Expenses: 

Corps of Engineers ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 855,203,419

Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation/DOT .................................................................................................................................................. 30,571,661

Administrative cost for Department of Homeland Security (Customs)............................................................................................................................... 3,274,000

Operating expenses, miscellaneous returns....................................................................................................................................................................... - 

Total expenses................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 889,049,080 

Balance Sept. 30, 2013 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. $7,757,011,463 

* Beginning balance adjusted to reconcile with Treasury Statement in which the ending balance 

would also change. 
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Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund 

Expected Condition and Results of Operations, Fiscal Years 2014-2018* 

[In millions of dollars. Source: Department of the Army Corps of Engineers] 

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Balance Oct. 1 ..................................................................................................... 7,757.0 8,676.1 9,718.2 10,900.5 12,237.1

Receipts: 

Harbor maintenance fee .................................................................................. 1,617.9 1,695.8 1,764.0 1,818.6 1,879.3

Interest on investments.................................................................................... 225.5 280.0 370.6 489.0 562.7

Total receipts ............................................................................................... 9,600.4 10,651.9 11,852.8 13,208.1 14,679.1

Outlays: 

Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, legislative proposal 

not subject to paygo .....................................................................................

---- -

Corps of Engineers operation, maintenance, 

and administrative expenses .......................................................................

834.2 842.5 858.0 875.0 898.5

Corps of Engineers construction ..................................................................... 55.8 56.4 59.0 60.0 60.0

Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation/DOT............................... 30.3 30.8 31.3 32.0 32.5

Administrative expenses for Department of Homeland Security

(Customs Service) ...................................................................................................

4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0

Total outlays................................................................................................. 924.3 933.7 952.3 971.0 995.0

Balance Sept. 30.................................................................................................. 8,676.1 9,718.2 10,900.5 12,237.1 13,684.1

* Outyear projections are for planning purposes and are based on economic conditions and 

agencies’ best projections of revenues and expenses. 
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INTRODUCTION: Hazardous Substance Superfund 

The Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund was 

established on the books of the Treasury in fiscal year 1981, 

in accordance with section 221 of the Hazardous Substance 

Response Revenue Act of 1980 [42 United States Code 

9631(a), repealed]. The trust fund was renamed the 

Hazardous Substance Superfund (Superfund) and relocated 

in accordance with section 517 of the Superfund 

Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 [Public Law 

99-499, dated October 17, 1986 (26 United States Code 

9507)]. 

The authority to collect excise taxes on petroleum and 

chemicals, and an environmental tax for all corporations 

with modified alternative taxable income in excess of $2 

million, expired in 1995. To implement the Superfund 

program, amounts are appropriated from the Superfund to 

the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for 

programmatic and administrative expenses. 

An annual report to Congress by the Secretary of 

Treasury is required by 26 United States Code 9602(a). 

These reports present the financial condition of the 

Superfund and the results of operation for the past fiscal 

year, and its expected condition during the next 5 fiscal 

years. 

TABLE TF-5.—Hazardous Substance Superfund1, 2, 3

Results of Operations, Fiscal Year 2013 

[Source: EPA] 

Balance Oct. 1, 2012 ...................................................................................................................................................................................... $79,600,000

Receipts: 

Crude and petroleum .................................................................................................................................................................................. -

Certain chemicals........................................................................................................................................................................................ -

Corporate environmental ............................................................................................................................................................................ -

General fund appropriation ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1,035,000,000

Cost recoveries ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 35,000,000

Fines and penalties..................................................................................................................................................................................... 3,000,000

Interest on investments............................................................................................................................................................................... 47,000,000

Offsetting collections................................................................................................................................................................................... -

Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry offsetting collections.................................................................................................. -

Sequestered Resources and Rescission3 .................................................................................................................................................. 76,000,000

Total receipts........................................................................................................................................................................................... 1,196,000,000

Expenses: 

EPA expense .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 1,115,000,000

Other expenses........................................................................................................................................................................................... 10,600,000

Total expenses........................................................................................................................................................................................ 1,125,000,000

Balance Sept. 30, 2013 ................................................................................................................................................................................... $150,000,000

1

 Reporting in this Superfund Trust Fund table is consistent with previously reported 

presentations. However, the structure of this table may not accurately reflect the status of 

this trust fund. As a result, this table may be revised in future reports and other resources 

should be utilized for accurate trust fund reporting. 

2

 Reporting excludes the Iron Mountain account in the Hazardous Substance Superfund 

Trust Fund. 

3 Balance as of September 30, 2013, includes the temporarily sequestered resources that 

came available with the appropriation on October 1, 2013. 
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Hazardous Substance Superfund 

Expected Condition and Results of Operations, Fiscal Years 2014-20181, 2

[In millions of dollars. Source: EPA] 

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Balance Oct. 1 ................................................................................................. 150 228 173 187 197

Receipts: 

Interest ......................................................................................................... 84 105 124 139 148

Recoveries ................................................................................................... 98 98 98 98 98

Fines and penalties...................................................................................... 2 2 2 2 2

Taxes3 .......................................................................................................... - --- -

Offsetting collections.................................................................................... - --- -

General revenues ........................................................................................ 1,008 861 916 902 892

Total receipts ........................................................................................... 1,192 1,066 1,140 1,141 1,140

Appropriations4................................................................................................. 1,089 1,089 1,089 1,089 1,089

Other expenses................................................................................................ 25 32 37 42 44

Balance Sept. 30.............................................................................................. 228 173 187 197 204

1

 Reporting in this Superfund Trust Fund table is consistent with previously reported 

presentations. However, the structure of this table may not accurately reflect the status of 

this trust fund. As a result, this table may be revised in future reports and other resources 

should be utilized for accurate trust fund reporting. 

2

 The 2014 balance includes the temporarily sequestered resources that came available with 

the appropriation on October 1, 2013. 

3

 Tax policy decisions have not been made as of January 17, 2014. 

4

 As directed in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014. 
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INTRODUCTION: Highway Trust Fund 

The Highway Trust Fund was established on the books 

of the Treasury in fiscal year 1957, according to provisions 

of the Highway Revenue Act of 1956 (Act of June 29, 1956, 

chapter 462, section 209). It has been amended and extended 

by various highway surface transportation and other acts 

since 1959. Section 1110(d) of the Safe, Accountable, 

Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy For 

Users (SAFETEA-LU) (Public Law 109-59) extended the 

Highway Trust Fund to be available for making expenditures 

before September 30, 2009 (October 1, 2009, in the case of 

expenditures for administrative expenses). 

Amounts equivalent to taxes on gasoline, diesel fuel, 

special motor fuels, certain tires, heavy trucks and trailers, 

and heavy vehicle use are designated by the Act to be 

appropriated and transferred from the general fund of the 

Treasury to the trust fund. These transfers are made twice 

monthly based on estimates by the Secretary of the Treasury, 

subject to later adjustments to reflect the amount of actual 

tax receipts. Amounts available in the fund exceeding outlay 

requirements are invested in non-interest-bearing public debt 

securities. 

Within the fund is a mass transit account, funded by a 

portion of the excise tax collections under sections 4041 and 

4081 of the IRC (title 26 United States Code). The funds 

from this account are used for expenditures in accordance 

with chapter 53 of title 49 United States Code, the 

Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 

(Public Law 102-240), the Transportation Equity Act for the 

21st Century (TEA-21), and SAFETEA-LU. The remaining 

excise taxes are included in a separate account within the 

trust fund commonly referred to as the highway account. 

Expenditures from this account are made according to the 

provisions of various transportation acts. 

Amounts required for outlays to carry out the eligible 

surface transportation programs are made available to the 

responsible operating administrations within the Department 

of Transportation. Other charges to the trust fund are made 

by the Secretary of the Treasury for transfer of certain taxes 

to the Land and Water Conservation Fund and the Aquatic 

Resources Trust Fund. 

The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 

Secretary of Transportation, is required to submit annual 

reports to Congress by section 9602(a) of title 26 United 

States Code. These reports cover the financial condition and 

results of operations of the fund for the past fiscal year and 

expected condition and operations during the next 5 fiscal 

years. 

In addition, the Secretary of the Treasury is required by 

26 U.S.C. 9503(d)(7) to report to specified Congressional 

Committees any estimate which he, in consultation with the 

Secretary of Transportation, makes pursuant to 26 U.S.C. 

9503(d)(1) or any determination which he makes pursuant to 

26 U.S.C. 9503(d)(2). The Congressional Committees are 

the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of 

Representatives, the Committee on Finance of the Senate, 

the Committees on the Budget of both Houses, the 

Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the 

House of Representatives, and the Committee on 

Environment and Public Works of the Senate. 
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TABLE TF-6.—Highway Trust Fund 

Results of Operations, Fiscal Year 2013 

[Source: DOT] 

Description IRC section (26 United States Code) Amount

Balance Oct. 1, 2012 ........................................................................................................................................................................................... $14,925,029,309

Receipts: Excise taxes (transferred from general fund): Gasoline ....................................................................................................... 4081 .......................................................................... 23,462,805,235

Diesel and special motor fuels ..................................................................... 4041 .......................................................................... 9,468,623,333

Highway tires ................................................................................................ 4071 .......................................................................... 359,314,762

Retail tax on trucks....................................................................................... 4051 .......................................................................... 3,197,406,580

Heavy vehicle use ........................................................................................ 4481 .......................................................................... 1,090,600,624

Total excise taxes .................................................................................................................................................................................... 37,578,750,533

Less refunds and tax credits (reimbursed to general fund): 

Diesel fuel..................................................................................................................................................................................................... -

Gasoline ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... -

Total refunds and tax credits.................................................................................................................................................................... -

Less transfers: 

To Land and Water Conservation Fund....................................................................................................................................................... 1,000,000

To Aquatic Resources Trust Fund ............................................................................................................................................................... 459,007,000

To Airport and Airway Trust Fund ................................................................................................................................................................ 670,938,244

To general fund—Rescission Section 1007(b) of P.L. 111-18 .................................................................................................................... -

Total transfers .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 1,130,945,244

Other income: 

Fines and penalties ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 15,454,279

Interest ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6,452,546

Transfer from TIFIA loan subsidy re-estimate ............................................................................................................................................. -

Transfer from the General Fund1 ................................................................................................................................................................. 5,883,800,000

Total other income ................................................................................................................................................................................... -

Net receipts .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 42,353,512,114

Expenses: 

Federal Highway Administration: 

Federal aid to highways ............................................................................................................................................................................... 41,742,174,308

Right-of-way revolving fund ......................................................................................................................................................................... -16,380,481

Appalachian Development Highway System ............................................................................................................................................... 2,326,482

Other ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 16,373,609

Total ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 41,744,493,918

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ............................................................................................................................................... 544,912,559

Federal Transit Administration ..................................................................................................................................................................... 8,098,183,171

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: 

Operations and research ......................................................................................................................................................................... 109,991,831

Highway traffic safety grants .................................................................................................................................................................... 517,609,022

National driver register ............................................................................................................................................................................. 214,810

Total ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 627,815,663

Federal Railroad Administration ...................................................................................................................................................................... -

Other agencies ............................................................................................................................................................................................. -

Total expenses ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 51,015,405,311

Balance Sept. 30, 2013 ........................................................................................................................................................................................ $6,263,136,112

1

 Transfer of $6,200,000 pursuant to P.L. 112-141 of which #316,200,000 was 

sequestered. 

Note.—Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. 
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Highway Trust Fund 

Expected Condition and Results of Operations, Fiscal Years 2014-2018 

[In billions of dollars. Source: DOT] 

Combined Statement Highway and Mass Transit Accounts 

 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Balance Oct. 1 ............................................................... 6 3 -12 -28 -44

Receipts: 

Excise taxes, net of refunds....................................... 38 38 39 39 40

Interest, net ................................................................ - - - - -

Total receipts ......................................................... 38 38 39 39 40

Adjustments1 .......................................................... 12 - - - -

Outlays........................................................................... 53 53 55 55 55

Balance Sept. 30............................................................ 3 -12 -28 -44 -59

 

Mass Transit Account 

 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

 

Balance Oct. 1 .................................................................... 2 1 -2 -7 -11

Receipts: 

Excise taxes, net of refunds............................................ 5 5 5 5 5

Interest, net ..................................................................... - - - - -

Total receipts .............................................................. 7 6 3 -2 -6

Flex fund transfers .......................................................... 1 1 1 1 1

Adjustments1 ................................................................... 2 - - - -

Outlays ................................................................................ 9 9 10 11 11

Balance Sept. 30................................................................. 1 -2 -7 -11 -16

 

Highway Account 

 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

 

Balance Oct. 1 ......................................................................... 4 2 -10 -22 -32

Receipts: 

Excise taxes, net of refunds................................................. 33 33 34 34 35

Interest, net .......................................................................... - - - - -

Total receipts ................................................................... 37 35 24 13 2

Flex fund transfers ............................................................... -1 -1 -1 -1 -1

Adjustments1 ........................................................................ 10 - - - -

Outlays..................................................................................... 44 44 44 44 44

Balance Sept. 30...................................................................... 2 -10 -22 -32 -43

Unfunded authorizations (EOY)............................................... 91 100 110 120 131

Forty-eight-month revenue estimate ........................................ 131 133 135 136 138

 

1

 Adjustment pursuant to Section 40201 of Public Law 112-141. Note.—Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. 
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TABLE TF-6A.—Highway Trust Fund * 

The following information is released according to the 

provisions of the Byrd Amendment [codified at 26 United 

States Code 9503(d)] and represents data concerning the 

Highway Trust Fund. The figure described as “unfunded 

authorizations” is the latest estimate received from the DOT 

for fiscal year 2013. 

The 48-month revenue estimates for the highway and 

mass transit accounts, respectively, include the latest 

estimates received from Treasury’s Office of Tax Analysis 

for excise taxes, net of refunds. They represent net highway 

receipts for those periods beginning at the close of fiscal 

year 2013. 

Highway Account 

[In billions of dollars. Source: DOT] 

Commitments (unobligated balances plus unpaid obligations, fiscal year 2015) .............................................................................................................. 90

less: 

Cash balance (fiscal year 2015) ......................................................................................................................................................................................... -10 

Unfunded authorizations (fiscal year 2015)........................................................................................................................................................................ 100

48-month revenue estimate (fiscal years 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019)............................................................................................................................ 133

. 

Mass Transit Account 

[In billions of dollars. Source: DOT] 

Commitments (unobligated balances plus unpaid obligations, fiscal year 2015) .............................................................................................................. 25

less: 

Cash balance (fiscal year 2015) ......................................................................................................................................................................................... -2 

Unfunded authorizations (fiscal year 2015)........................................................................................................................................................................ 27 

48-month revenue estimate (fiscal years 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019)............................................................................................................................ 25

Note.—Estimates are based on Fiscal Year 2015 President’s Budget assumptions. Note.—Detail may not add to totals due to rounding. 
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INTRODUCTION: Inland Waterways Trust Fund 

The Inland Waterways Trust Fund was established by the 

Treasury in fiscal year 1984, pursuant to section 203 of the 

Inland Waterways Revenue Act of 1978 (Public Law 95-

502) and continued pursuant to section 1405 of the Water 

Resources Development Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-662, 

codified at 26 United States Code 9506). Under 26 United 

States Code 9506(b), amounts from taxes on fuel used in 

commercial transportation on inland waterways, as 

determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, are 

appropriated to the trust fund. 

The Technical and Miscellaneous Revenue Act of 1988 

(Public Law 100-647, approved November 10, 1988) 

increased the tax each year, 1990 through 1995. These 

amounts are transferred quarterly from the general fund 

based on estimates made by the Secretary, subject to 

adjustments in later transfers to the amounts of actual tax 

receipts. 

The Secretary of the Treasury invests in interest-bearing 

obligations of the United States that portion of the trust fund, 

in his judgment, not required to meet current withdrawals. 

The interest on, and proceeds from, the sale or redemption of 

any obligation held in the trust fund is credited to the trust 

fund. The Inland Waterways Revenue Act of 1978 (Public 

Law 95-502) provides that amounts in the trust fund shall be 

available as provided, by appropriations acts, for 

construction and rehabilitation expenditures for navigation 

on the inland and intracoastal waterways of the United States 

described in 33 United States Code 1804. Expenditures must 

be otherwise authorized by law. 

Annual reports to Congress are required by 26 United 

States Code 9602(a) to be submitted by the Secretary of the 

Treasury. These reports are required to cover the financial 

condition and the results of operations of the fund during the 

past fiscal year and its expected condition and operations 

during the next 5 fiscal years. 

TABLE TF-7.—Inland Waterways Trust Fund 

Results of Operations, Fiscal Year 2013 

[Source: Department of the Army Corps of Engineers] 

Balance Oct. 1, 2012 ........................................................................................................................................................................................... $45,935,897

Receipts: 

Fuel taxes/revenues......................................................................................................................................................................................... 75,110,280

Interest on investments.................................................................................................................................................................................... 42,910

Gain on sale of investments ............................................................................................................................................................................ -

Total receipts ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 75,153,190

Transfers: 

Corps of Engineers .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 86,167,807

Balance Sept. 30, 2013........................................................................................................................................................................................ $34,921,280

Inland Waterways Trust Fund 

Expected Condition and Results of Operations, Fiscal Years 2014-2018* 

[In millions of dollars. Source: Department of the Army Corps of Engineers] 

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Balance Oct. 1 ....................................................................................................... 35 26 20 19 19

Receipts: 

Fuel taxes.......................................................................................................... 85 86 89 90 91

Interest on investments ..................................................................................... - - - - -

Total receipts ................................................................................................. 85 86 89 90 91

Transfers: 

Corps of Engineers ........................................................................................... 94 92 90 90 90

Balance Sept. 30 ................................................................................................... 26 20 19 19 20

* Outyear projections are based on economic conditions and agencies’ best projections of 

revenues and expenditures. 
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INTRODUCTION: Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund 

The Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Trust 

Fund was established in fiscal year 1981 according to 

provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 

Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-510, 

codified at 26 United States Code 9508), as amended by the 

Superfund Amendments and Re-authorization Act of 1986 

(Public Law 99-499, dated October 17, 1986), sections 13163I 

and 13242(d)(42) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 

of 1993 (Public Law 103-66, dated August 10, 1993), and 

section 1032(e)(13) of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1987 

(Public Law 105-34, dated August 5, 1997). 

The LUST Trust Fund is financed by taxes collected on 

gasoline, diesel fuels, special motor fuels, aviation fuels and 

fuels used in commercial transportation on inland 

waterways. Amounts available in the LUST Trust Fund, 

exceeding current expenditure requirements, are invested by 

the Secretary of the Treasury in interest-bearing Government 

securities (e.g., Treasury bills). All interest earned is credited 

directly to the LUST Trust Fund. 

To carry out the LUST program, amounts are 

appropriated for the LUST Trust Fund to the EPA for 

programmatic and administrative expenses. 

An annual report to Congress by the Secretary of the 

Treasury is required by 26 United States Code 9602(a). 

These reports present the financial condition of the LUST 

Trust Fund and results of operations for the past fiscal year 

and its expected condition and operations during the next 5 

fiscal years. 

TABLE TF-8.—Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund 

Results of Operations, Fiscal Year 20131

[Source: EPA] 

Balance Oct. 1, 2012 ...................................................................................................................................................................................... $1,157,000,000 

Receipts: 

Taxes.......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 162,000,000

Interest........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 23,000,000

Sequestered Resources2 ........................................................................................................................................................................... 5,000,000 

Gross tax receipts .................................................................................................................................................................................. 190,000,000 

Undisbursed balances: 

Environmental Protection Agency Leaking Underground Storage Tank balances ................................................................................... -

Total undisbursed balances ................................................................................................................................................................... -

Expenses: 

Environmental Protection Agency Leaking Underground Storage Tank expenses .................................................................................. 104,000,000

Other expenses ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 3,000,000 

Total expenses ....................................................................................................................................................................................... $107,000,000 

Balance Sept. 30, 2013 .................................................................................................................................................................................. $1,240,000,000 

1

 Reporting in this trust fund table is consistent with previously reported presentations. 

However, the structure of this table may not accurately reflect the status of this trust fund. 

As a result, this table may be revised in future reports and other resources should be 

utilized for accurate trust fund reporting. 

2

 Balances as of September 30, 2013 include the temporarily sequestered resources that 

came available with the appropriation on October 1, 2013. 

Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund 

Expected Condition and Results of Operations, Fiscal Years 2014-20181, 2

[In millions of dollars. Source: EPA] 

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Balance Oct. 1 ................................................................................................................. 1,240 1,346 1,458 1,598 1,752

Receipts: 

Taxes3 ......................................................................................................................... 178 179 180 181 182

Interest3 ....................................................................................................................... 30 42 55 68 80

Total receipts ........................................................................................................... 201 207 235 249 262

Appropriations4 ................................................................................................................ 95 95 95 95 95

Other Expenses .............................................................................................................. - - - - -

Balance Sept. 30 ............................................................................................................. 1,346 1,458 1,598 1,752 1,919

1

 Reporting in this trust fund table is consistent with previously reported presentations. 

However, the structure of this table may not accurately reflect the status of the trust fund. 

As a result, this table may be revised in future reports and other resources should be 

utilized for accurate trust fund reporting. 

2 The 2014 balance includes the temporarily sequestered resources that came available 

with the appropriation on October 1, 2013. 

3 Taxes and Interest are estimated. 

4 As directed in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014. 
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INTRODUCTION: Nuclear Waste Fund 

The Nuclear Waste Fund was established on the books of 

the Treasury in fiscal year 1983, according to section 302 of 

the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 [Public Law 97-425, 

codified at 42 United States Code 10222I]. Receipts 

represent fees collected from public utilities based on 

electricity generated by nuclear power reactors and spent 

nuclear fuel. Expenditures from the fund are for purposes of 

radioactive waste disposal activities. 

Amounts available in the fund exceeding current needs 

may be invested by the Secretary of the Treasury in 

obligations of the United States (1) having maturities in 

tandem with the needs of the waste fund and (2) bearing 

interest at rates determined appropriate, taking into 

consideration the current average market yield on 

outstanding marketable obligations of the United States with 

remaining periods to maturity comparable to the maturities 

of such investments, except that the interest rate on such 

investments shall not exceed the average interest rate 

applicable to existing borrowings. 

An annual report to Congress by the Secretary of the 

Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary of the 

Department of Energy (DOE), is required by 42 United 

States Code 10222(e)(1). This report must present the 

financial condition and the results of operations of the waste 

fund during the preceding fiscal year. 

TABLE TF-9.—Nuclear Waste Fund 

Results of Operations, Fiscal Year 2013 

[Source: DOE] 

Balance Sept. 30, 2012........................................................................................................................................................................................ $1,897,408

Receipts: 

Fees collected.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 733,753,204 

Penalties and interest on fee payments........................................................................................................................................................... -

Interest on investments.................................................................................................................................................................................... 1,162,423,483 

Total receipts................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1,896,176,687

Nonexpenditure transfers: 

SF-1151 transfers in (+)................................................................................................................................................................................... -

SF-1151 transfers out (-).................................................................................................................................................................................. -3,400,000

Net nonexpenditure transfers....................................................................................................................................................................... -3,400,000

Outlays: 

DOE radioactive waste disposal activities ....................................................................................................................................................... 2,611,602

Cost investments.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 1,890,139,973

Total outlays................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1,892,751,575

Balance Sept. 30, 2013 ........................................................................................................................................................................................ $1,922,520
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CHARTS TF-A and B.—Major Trust Funds 

[Data depicted in these charts are derived from the Trust Fund tables, which are provided by various 

Government agencies. See tables TF-1, TF-3, TF-5, TF-6 and TF-9.] 
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INTRODUCTION: Reforestation Trust Fund 

The Reforestation Trust Fund was established on the 

books of the Treasury in fiscal year 1981 to continue 

through September 30, 1985, according to provisions of 

Title III—Reforestation, of the Recreational Boating Safety 

and Facilities Improvement Act of 1980 [Public Law 96-

451, codified at 16 United States Code 1606a(a)]. 

The act provides that the Secretary of the Treasury shall 

transfer to the trust fund tariffs, limited to not more than $30 

million for any fiscal year, received in the Treasury from 

October 1, 1979, through September 30, 1985, on (1) rough 

and primary wood products and wood waste; (2) lumber, 

flooring and moldings; and (3) wood veneers, plywood, 

other wood-veneer assemblies and building boards. Public 

Law 99-190, title II, 99 Statutes at Large 1245, extended the 

receipts for the trust fund. Amounts available in the 

reforestation trust fund exceeding current withdrawals are 

invested in interest-bearing obligations of the United States 

or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest 

by the United States. The interest on, and the proceeds from 

the sale or redemption of, any obligations are credited to the 

trust fund. 

The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture is 

authorized to obligate available sums in the trust fund 

(including any amounts not obligated in previous years) for 

(1) reforestation and timber stand improvement and (2) 

administrative costs of the Government for these activities. 

Annual reports are required by 16 United States Code 

1606aI (1) to be submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, 

after consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, on the 

financial condition and the results of the operations of the 

trust fund during the past fiscal year and on its expected 

condition and operations during the next fiscal year. 

TABLE TF-10.—Reforestation Trust Fund 

Results of Operations, Fiscal Year 2013 

[Source: Department of Agriculture] 

Balance Oct. 1, 2012 ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 6,164,994

Receipts: 

Excise taxes (tariffs)......................................................................................................................................................................................... 30,000,000

Redemption of investment ............................................................................................................................................................................... -

Total receipts................................................................................................................................................................................................ 30,000,000

Expenses: 

Expenditure ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 29,279,923

Total expenses............................................................................................................................................................................................. 29,279,923

Adjustment ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... -

Balance Sept. 30, 2013 ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 6,885,071

Reforestation Trust Fund 

Expected Condition and Results of Operations, Fiscal Year 2014 

[In thousands of dollars. Source: Department of Agriculture] 

Balance Oct. 1..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6,885

Receipts: 

Excise taxes (tariffs)........................................................................................................................................................................................ 30,000

Redemption of investment .............................................................................................................................................................................. -

Total receipts............................................................................................................................................................................................... 30,000

Outlays ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 30,000

Balance Sept. 30 ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 6,885
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INTRODUCTION: Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund 

The Aquatic Resources Trust Fund (ARTF) was 

established on the books of the Treasury pursuant to the 

Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 [Public Law 98-369, division 

A, title X, section 1016(a), approved July 18, 1984]. The 

ARTF was restructured and renamed the Sport Fish 

Restoration and Boating Trust Fund by the Safe, 

Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: 

A Legacy for Users or “SAFETEA-LU” [Public Law 109-

59, title XI, subtitle B, part 2, section 11115, approved 

August 10, 2005,] as amended by the Sportfishing and 

Recreational Boating Safety Amendments Act of 2005 

[Public Law 109-74, approved September 29, 2005]. 

Section 3 of the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration 

Act, 16 United States Code 777, provides authorization of 

appropriations to the states to carry out the provisions of the 

act, and Section 4 provides the division of the remaining 

annual appropriation not authorized in Section 3. 

SAFETEA-LU comprehensively amended Section 3 and 

reauthorized the Sport Fish Restoration Program (for fiscal 

years 2006-2009) to permanently appropriate boating safety 

funds; to modify distribution of funds whereby all accounts 

receive a fixed percentage of the total fund annually; and to 

modify the excise tax on certain sport fishing equipment. 

From October 1, 2010, through June 30, 2012, the authority 

for SAFETEA-LU was extended via several public laws. In 

June 2012, Public Law 112-141, Moving Ahead for Progress 

in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), established new authority 

for Section 4 through September 30, 2014. 

Effective October 1, 2005, motorboat fuel taxes (less $1 

million transferred to the Land and Water Conservation 

Fund) and small engine gasoline taxes [pursuant to the 

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, Public Law 

101-508, title XI, section 11211(i) (2) and (3)] were 

transferred from the Highway Trust Fund to the Sport Fish 

Restoration and Boating Trust Fund. In addition, amounts 

equivalent to the excise taxes received on sport fishing 

equipment and import duties on fishing tackle, yachts, and 

pleasure craft are appropriated into the fund. 

Amounts in the trust fund are used, as provided by 

appropriation acts, for the purposes of carrying out the 

Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act, approved 

August 9, 1950; Section 7404(d) of the Transportation 

Equity Act for the 21st Century; and the Coastal Wetlands 

Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (each as in effect 

on the date of enactment of the MAP-21). 

The general provisions of 26 United States Code 9602(b) 

are responsible for making amounts available in the fund 

exceeding outlay requirements to be invested in public debt 

securities with the interest credited to the fund. 

As required by 26 United States Code 9602(a), annual 

reports to Congress must be submitted by the Secretary of 

the Treasury. These reports will cover the financial condition 

and results of operations of the fund during the past fiscal 

year and those expected during the next 5 fiscal years. 
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TABLE TF-11.—Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund 

Sport Fish Restoration Results of Operations, Fiscal Year 2013 

[Source: Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Funds Management Branch] 

Balance Oct. 1, 20121 ............................................................................................................................................................................................ $676,360,716

Revenue: 

Tax revenue: 

Gas, motorboat .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 337,500,000

Fish equipment............................................................................................................................................................................................... 65,192,370

Tackle boxes .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1,451,395

Rods and poles .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 9,152,857

Electronic outboard motors ............................................................................................................................................................................ 4,264,721

Customs/import duties ................................................................................................................................................................................... 45,807,314

Gas, motorboat small engines ....................................................................................................................................................................... 121,507,000

Total, tax revenue ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 584,875,657

Investment revenue: 

Interest on investments (accrual basis) ......................................................................................................................................................... 5,654,812

Loss on sale of securities............................................................................................................................................................................... -

Total, investment revenue.......................................................................................................................................................................... 5,654,812

Total revenue ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 590,530,469

Nonexpenditure appropriations: 

Interior ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ -439,065,796

Interior (U.S. Coast Guard)............................................................................................................................................................................ -114,728,918

Interior (Corps of Engineers).......................................................................................................................................................................... -80,310,243

Total appropriations ................................................................................................................................................................................... -634,104,957

Balance Sept. 30, 20132 ........................................................................................................................................................................................ $632,786,228

1

 This year the beginning equity balance was misstated by $ 2.00 due to rounding. 2 The Balance for September 30, 2013, does not tie to the September 30, 2013, published 

financial statement 3310 end balance. The equity balance is not affected throughout the 

entirety of the fiscal year, but changes for the beginning of the following fiscal year, after 

adjusting/closing entries are made. The balance shown here for September 30, 2013, reflects 

the net activity for fiscal year 2013 and adjusting/closing entries made in October 2013. 

Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund 

Sport Fish Expected Condition and Results of Operations, Fiscal Years 2014-2018 

[In thousands of dollars. Source: Department of the Interior] 

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Balance Oct. 1 ..................................................................................... 632,786 656,587 679,483 706,164 737,628

Receipts/revenue: 

Taxes ............................................................................................ 607,000 629,000 654,000 684,000 718,000

Interest .......................................................................................... 12,403 13,299 14,981 16,445 18,377

Transfers....................................................................................... - - - - -

Total receipts ............................................................................ 619,403 642,299 668,981 700,445 736,377

Expenses: 

Expenses/transfers ....................................................................... 595,602 619,403 642,300 668,981 700,445

Total expenses.......................................................................... 595,602 619,403 642,300 668,981 700,445

Balance Sept. 30............................................................................... 656,587 679,483 706,164 737,628 773,560
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INTRODUCTION: Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund 

The Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund was established on the 

books of the Treasury by section 8033 of the Omnibus Budget 

Reconciliation Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-509). It was made 

effective on January 1, 1990, by section 7811(m)(3) of the 

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 (Public Law 

101-239) and amended by section 9001of the Oil Pollution 

Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-380). The Energy Improvement 

and Extension Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-343) increased 

the barrel tax on petroleum from five cents per barrel to eight 

cents from 2009 through 2016, and to nine cents in 2017. The 

act also repeals the requirement that the tax be suspended 

when the unobligated balance exceeds $2.7 billion. 

Amounts equivalent to the taxes received from the 

environmental tax on petroleum, but only to the extent of the 

Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund rate, are appropriated to the 

fund. 

Certain amounts were transferred from other funds and 

were appropriated to the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund as 

provided by 26 United States Code 9509(b). Certain paid 

penalties and amounts recovered for damages are also 

appropriated to the fund. 

Amounts in the fund are available for oil spill cleanup 

costs and certain other related purposes as provided by 

appropriations acts or section 6002(b) of the Oil Pollution Act 

of 1990 (Public Law 101-380). 

When the provisions of 26 United States Code 9602(b) are 

met, amounts available in the fund exceeding outlay 

requirements are invested in public debt securities. Interest is 

credited to the fund. 

Annual reports to Congress, required by 26 United States 

Code 9602(a), are submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury. 

These reports are required to cover the financial condition and 

results of operations of the fund during the past fiscal year and 

those expected during the next 5 fiscal years. 
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TABLE TF-12.—Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund 

Results of Operations, Fiscal Year 2013 

[Source: Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Funds Management Branch] 

Balance Oct. 1, 20121 .................................................................................................................................................................................................... $2,366,997,912

Revenue: 

Drawback claims........................................................................................................................................................................................................ -20,908,090

Other income.............................................................................................................................................................................................................. -

Trans-Alaska Pipeline liability fund deposit ............................................................................................................................................................... -

Cost recoveries .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 125,353,027

Fines and penalties.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 402,451,172

Excise taxes ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 430,223,785

Net revenue before interest ................................................................................................................................................................................... 937,119,894

Investment income: 

Interest on investments.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 17,322,988

Realized gain ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. -

Total investment income ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 17,322,988

Total revenue ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 954,442,882

Expenditures: 

Treasury administrative expense—BFS.................................................................................................................................................................... -165,000

Nonexpenditure transfers: 

Transfer to Denali commission .................................................................................................................................................................................. -6,708,757

Transfer to Interior...................................................................................................................................................................................................... -28,838,165

Transfer to EPA.......................................................................................................................................................................................................... -17,290,451

Transfer to PHMSA.................................................................................................................................................................................................... -7,016,450

Transfer to U.S. Coast Guard-70x8312 (claims) ....................................................................................................................................................... -84,636,182

Transfer to U.S. Coast Guard-70x8349 (Emer Fund) ............................................................................................................................................... -45,480,849

Transfer to U.S. Coast Guard-annual (earmarked) ................................................................................................................................................... -42,693,583

Total nonexpenditure transfers .............................................................................................................................................................................. -232,664,437

Total expenditure/nonexpenditure transfers .......................................................................................................................................................... -232,829,437

Balance Sept. 30, 2013 .................................................................................................................................................................................................. $3,088,611,357

1

 The Balance for September 30, 2013, does not tie to the September 30, 2013, published 

financial statement 3310 end balance. The equity balance is not affected throughout the 

entirety of the fiscal year, but changes for the beginning of the following fiscal year, after 

adjusting/closing entries are made. The balance shown here for September 30, 2013, 

reflects the net activity for fiscal year 2013 and adjusting/closing entries made in October 

2013. 

Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund 

Expected Condition and Results of Operations, Fiscal Years 2014-2018 

[In millions of dollars. Source: Department of Homeland Security] 

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Balance Oct. 1 ............................................................................................... 3,089 3,707 4,430 5,038 5,694

Estimated receipts ......................................................................................... 1,026 920 805 853 856

Estimated expenses ...................................................................................... 408 197 197 197 197

Balance Sept. 30............................................................................................ 3,707 4,430 5,038 5,694 6,353
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INTRODUCTION: Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund 

The Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund was created 

on the books of the Treasury by section 9202 of the Revenue 

Act of 1987 (Public Law 100-203, approved December 22, 

1987). Excise taxes on diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, measles, 

mumps, rubella, polio, hepatitis B, haemophilus influenza type 

b, varicella, rotavirus, pneumococcal conjugate vaccines, 

hepatitis A (26 United States Code 4131), and trivalent 

influenza are appropriated into the trust fund, which is the 

source of funds to pay compensation awards for a vaccinerelated injury or death occurring after October 1, 1988, as well 

as program administrative expenses. Additionally, two new 

vaccines have been added for coverage effective February 1, 

2007; the meningococcal vaccine and the human 

papillomavirus vaccine. 

Annual reports to Congress, required by 26 United States 

Code 9602(a), are submitted by the Secretary of the 

Treasury. These reports are required to cover the financial 

condition and results of operations of the fund during the past 

fiscal year and those expected during the next 5 fiscal years. 

TABLE TF-13.—Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund 

Results of Operations, Fiscal Year 2013 

[Source: Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Funds Management Branch] 

Balance Oct. 1, 20121 .......................................................................................................................................................................................... $3,471,159,326

Receipts: 

Excise tax receipts ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 204,531,836

Interest on investments .................................................................................................................................................................................... 61,535,841

Total receipts ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 266,067,677

Expenditure appropriations: 

U.S. Court of Federal Claims expenses .......................................................................................................................................................... -4,661,407

U.S. Department of Justice expenses ............................................................................................................................................................. -7,670,583

GF transfer—program management ................................................................................................................................................................ -

Total outlays ................................................................................................................................................................................................. -12,331,990

Nonexpenditure appropriations: 

Health resources .............................................................................................................................................................................................. -280,429,010

Total outlays/transfers .................................................................................................................................................................................. -292,761,000

Backout of payable balance—Transfer to equity ......................................................................................................................................... 7,403,768

Balance Sept. 30, 2013 ........................................................................................................................................................................................ $3,451,869,771

1

 The Balance for September 30, 2013, does not tie to the September 30, 2013, published 

financial statement 3310 end balance. The equity balance is not affected throughout the 

entirety of the fiscal year, but changes for the beginning of the following fiscal year, after 

adjusting/closing entries are made. The balance shown here for September 30, 2013, 

reflects the net activity for fiscal year 2013 and adjusting/closing entries made in October 

2013. 

Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund 

Expected Condition and Results of Operations, Fiscal Years 2014-2018 

[In thousands of dollars. Source: Department of Health and Human Services ] 

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Balance Oct. 1 ............................................................................................... 3,451,869 3,425,308 3,398,304 3,370,843 3,342,911

Receipts (from tax) ........................................................................................ 210,668 216,988 223,498 230,203 237,109

Interest on investments .............................................................................. 63,382 65,284 67,242 69,259 71,337

Total receipts ......................................................................................... 274,050 282,272 290,740 299,462 308,446

Outlays: 

U.S. Court of Federal Claims expenses .................................................... 3,718 3,718 3,718 3,718 3,718

U.S. Department of Justice expenses ....................................................... 8,051 8,051 8,051 8,051 8,051

Total outlays ............................................................................................... 11,769 11,769 11,769 11,769 11,769

Nonexpenditure transfers: 

Transfers to health resources .................................................................... 288,842 297,507 306,432 315,625 325,094

Total outlays/transfers ........................................................................... 300,611 309,276 318,201 327,394 336,863

Balance Sept. 30............................................................................................ 3,425,308 3,398,304 3,370,843 3,342,911 3,314,494
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INTRODUCTION: Wool Research, Development, 

and Promotion Trust Fund 

The Wool Research, Development, and Promotion Trust 

Fund was established in fiscal year 2000 with a sunset 

provision effective January, 1, 2004, according to provisions 

of the Trade and Development Act of 2000 (Public Law 

106-200, signed May 18, 2000). The Trade Act of 2002 

(Public Law 107-210, signed August 6, 2002) extended the 

sunset provision to January 1, 2006. The Miscellaneous 

Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 2004 (Public Law 

108-429, signed December 3, 2004) extended the sunset 

provision to 2008. The Pension Protection Act of 2006 

(Public Law 109-280, signed August 17, 2006) extended the 

sunset provision to 2010. The Emergency Economic 

Stabilization Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-343, signed 

October 3, 2008) extended the sunset provision to 2015. 

The Act provides that the Secretary of the Treasury shall 

transfer to the trust fund out of the general fund of the U.S. 

Treasury amounts determined to be equivalent to the duty 

received on articles under chapters 51 and 52 of the 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States. The 

amount to be transferred is limited to $2,500,000 in any 

fiscal year and may be invested in U.S. Treasury securities. 

The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to provide grants 

to a nationally recognized council established for the 

development of the United States wool market for the 

following purposes: 

 Assist United States wool producers in improving 

the quality of wool and wool production methods for wool 

produced in the United States. 

 Disseminate information on improvements to United 

States wool producers. 

 Assist United States wool producers in developing 

and promoting the wool market. 

Annual reports to Congress are required on the financial 

condition and the results of the operations of the trust fund 

during the past fiscal year and on its expected condition and 

operations during the next fiscal year. 

TABLE TF-14.—Wool Research, Development, and Promotion Trust Fund 

Results of Operations, Fiscal Year 2013 

[In thousands of dollars. Source: Department of Agriculture] 

Balance Oct. 1, 2012 ................................................................................................................................................................................................ -

Receipts: 

Harmonized tariff ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2,250

Sequestration ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ -115

Total receipts ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2,135

Expenses: 

Expenditure ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2,135

Total expenses .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2,135

Balance Sept. 30, 2013 ............................................................................................................................................................................................ -

Wool Research, Development, and Promotion Trust Fund 

Expected Condition and Results of Operations, Fiscal Year 2014 

[In thousands of dollars. Source: Department of Agriculture] 

Balance Oct. 1, 2013 ................................................................................................................................................................................................ -

Receipts: 

Harmonized tariff ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2,250

Sequestration ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ -162

Total receipts ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2,088

Expenses: 

Expenditure ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2,088

Total expenses .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2,088

Balance Sept. 30 ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... -
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INTRODUCTION: Agriculture Disaster Relief Trust Fund 

The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (Public 

Law 110-246) created the “Agriculture Disaster Relief Trust 

Fund” (Disaster Trust Fund). The Disaster Trust Fund is 

described in Section 902 of the public law. 

The Disaster Trust Fund is appropriated an amount 

equivalent to 3.08 percent of the amounts received in the 

general fund of the Treasury of the United States during fiscal 

years 2008 through 2011 attributable to the duties collected on 

articles entered, or withdrawn from the warehouse, for 

consumption under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States. The collection activity is made by the U.S. 

Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP). The CBP transfers the funds monthly to the 

Disaster Trust Fund Receipt Account. 

The Disaster Trust Fund shall make amounts available 

for the purpose of expenditures to meet obligations of the 

United States incurred under Section 901 of the Trade Act of 

1974 and Section 531 of the Federal Crop Insurance Act. 

The Disaster Trust Fund will be used to make payments to 

farmers and ranchers under five disaster programs. 

 Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments 

Program (SURE) 

 Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) 

 Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) 

 Tree Assistance Program (TAP) 

 Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honey Bees, 

and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP) 

The Farm Service Agency shall invest such portions of 

the Disaster Trust Fund that is not required to meet current 

payment amounts. Investments may only be made in interest 

bearing obligations of the United States. 

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 

2009 (Public Law 111-5) created the “Agriculture Disaster 

Relief Trust Fund, Recovery Act” (Disaster Trust FundRecovery Act). The Disaster Trust Fund-Recovery Act 

provided for additional payments to farmers and ranchers from 

the SURE and TAP programs. The additional payments are 

tracked separately to meet the ARRA reporting requirements. 

The Disaster Trust Fund has indefinite borrowing 

authority via repayable advances. 

Annual reports to Congress, required by 19 United States 

Code 2497(a), are submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury. 

These reports are required to cover the financial condition and 

results of operations of the fund during the past fiscal year and 

those expected during the next 5 fiscal years. 

TABLE TF-15.—Agriculture Disaster Relief Trust Fund 

Results of Operations, Fiscal Year 2013 

[In thousands of dollars. Source: Department of Agriculture] 

Cumulative debt, start of year .................................................................................................................................................................................. $1,801,041

Balance Oct. 1, 2012 ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 209,353

Receipts: 

Transferred from customers................................................................................................................................................................................. 115

Borrowing authority .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 1,595,315

Interest ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. -

Total receipts .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1,595,430

Outlays: 

Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments Program..................................................................................................................................... 1,761,707

Livestock Forage Disaster Program .................................................................................................................................................................... 1,359

Livestock Indemnity Program............................................................................................................................................................................... 141

Tree Assistance Program .................................................................................................................................................................................... 2,089

Emergency Assistance of Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program......................................................................................... 286

Other .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1,835

Total benefit payments..................................................................................................................................................................................... 1,760,627

Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments Program..................................................................................................................................... 201

Tree Assistance Program .................................................................................................................................................................................... -

Total benefit payments—Recovery Act ........................................................................................................................................................... 201

Interest ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. -

Total outlays ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1,760,828

Interchange Authority Transfer to Emergency Conservation Program ........................................................................................................... -

Balance Sept. 30 ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 43,955

Cumulative debt, end of year* .................................................................................................................................................................................. $3,396,356

*The Cumulative debt, end of year reflect an adjusted Cumulative balance by $794,250. 

FSA FACTS II reported $2,602,106 as Cumulative debt, end of year. 
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Agriculture Disaster Relief Trust Fund Trust Fund 

Expected Condition and Results of Operations, Fiscal Years 2014-2018 

[In thousands of dollars. Source: Department of Health and Human Services ] 

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Cumulative debt, start of year............................................................................. 3,396,356 3,396,356 3,396,356 3,395,401 1,723,938

Balance Oct. 1 .................................................................................................... 43,955 1,955 955 - -

Receipts: 

Transferred from customers ........................................................................... - - -- -

Borrowing authority......................................................................................... - - -- -

Interest ............................................................................................................ - - - - -

Total receipts .............................................................................................. - - - - -

Outlays: 

Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments Program................................ 42,000 1,000 - - -

Livestock Forage Disaster Program............................................................... - - -- -

Livestock Indemnity Program ......................................................................... - - -- -

Tree Assistance Program............................................................................... - - -- -

Emergency Assistance of Livestock, Honey Bees, and FarmRaised Fish Program .................................................................................. - - - - -

Total benefit payments ............................................................................... 42,000 1,000 - - -

Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments Program................................ - - -- -

Tree assistance program................................................................................ - - -- -

Total benefit payments—Recovery Act ...................................................... - - -- -

Interest ............................................................................................................ - - - - -

Total outlays ................................................................................................ 42,000 1,000 - - -

Authority to repay outstanding debt1 .......................................................... - - 955 1,671,463 1,723,938

Balance Sept. 30............................................................................................. 1,955 955 - - -

Cumulative debt, end of year .......................................................................... 3,396,356 3,396,356 3,395,401 1,723,938 -

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Research Paper Series 

Available through the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy 

9002. “Historical Trends in the U.S. Cost of Capital.” Robert Gillingham and John S. Greenlees. December 1990. 

9003. “The Effect of Marginal Tax Rates on Capital Gains Revenue: Another Look at the Evidence.” Robert Gillingham and 

John S. Greenlees. December 1990. 

9004. “An Econometric Model of Capital Gains Realization Behavior.” Robert Gillingham, John S. Greenlees, and Kimberly 

D. Zieschang. August 1990. 

9101. “The Impact of Government Deficits on Personal and National Saving Rates.” (Revised) Michael R. Darby, Robert 

Gillingham, and John S. Greenlees. February 1991. 

9102. “Social Security and the Public Debt.” James E. Duggan. October 1991. 

9201. “Issues in Eastern European Social Security Reform.” John C. Hambor. June 1992. 

9202. “Life-Health Insurance Markets.” John S. Greenlees and James E. Duggan. July 1992. 

9203. “Property-Casualty Insurance Markets.” Lucy Huffman and David Bernstein. August 1992. 

9301. “The Bank-Reported Data in the U.S. Balance of Payments: Basic Features and an Assessment of their Reliability.” 

Michael Cayton. February 1993. 

9302. “The Returns Paid to Early Social Security Cohorts.” James E. Duggan, Robert Gillingham, and John S. Greenlees. 

April 1993. 

9303. “Distributional Effects of Social Security: The Notch Issue Revisited.” James E. Duggan, Robert Gillingham, and John 

S. Greenlees. Revised April 1995. 

9501. “Progressive Returns to Social Security? An Answer from Social Security Records.” James E. Duggan, Robert 

Gillingham, and John S. Greenlees. November 1995. 

9701. “Housing Bias in the CPI and Its Effects on the Budget Deficit and Social Security Trust Fund.” James E. Duggan, 

Robert Gillingham, and John S. Greenlees. January 1997. 

9702. “An Improved Method for Estimating the Total Taxable Resources of the States.” Michael Compson and John 

Navratil. December 1997. 

2001-01. “Some Regulatory and Institutional Barriers to Congestion Pricing at Airports.” Edward Murphy and John D. 

Worth. May 2001. 

2001-02. “Actuarial Nonequivalence in Early and Delayed Social Security Benefit Claims.” James E. Duggan and 

Christopher J. Soares. June 2001. 
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2003-01. “Annuity Risk: Volatility and Inflation Exposure in Payments from Immediate Life Annuities.” Christopher J. 

Soares and Mark Warshawsky. January 2003. 

2005-01. “Possible Alternatives to the Medicare Trustees’ Long-Term Projections of Health Spending.” Jason D. Brown and 

Ralph M. Monaco. January 2005. 

2005-02. “The Long-Term Real Interest Rate for Social Security.” James A. Girola. March 2005. 

2006-01. “Implications of Returns on Treasury Inflation-Indexed Securities for Projections of the Long-Term Real Interest 

Rate.” James A. Girola. March 2006. 

2007-01. “Mortality and Lifetime Income Evidence from Social Security Records.” James E. Duggan, Robert Gillingham, 

and John S. Greenlees. December 2006. 

2007-02. “The Impact of Post-9/11 Visa Policies on Travel to the United States.” Brent Neiman and Phillip L. Swagel. 

June 2007. 

2008-01. “Prefunding Social Security Benefits to Achieve Intergenerational Fairness: Can It Be Done in the Social Security 

Trust Fund?” Randall P. Mariger. December 2008. 

2008-02. “Do Social Security Surpluses Pay Down Publicly Held Debt? Evidence from Budget Data.” Randall P. Mariger. 

December 2008. 

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1500 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Room 4409 MT 

Washington, DC 20220 

Telephone (202) 622-1519 or fax (202) 622-4112
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Glossary 

With References to Applicable Sections and Tables 

Source: Bureau of the Fiscal Service 

Amounts outstanding and in circulation (USCC)—Includes 

all issues by the Bureau of the Mint purposely intended as a 

medium of exchange. Coins sold by the Bureau of the Mint at 

premium prices are excluded; however, uncirculated coin sets 

sold at face value plus handling charge are included. 

Average discount rate (PDO-1, -2)—In Treasury bill auctions, 

purchasers tender competitive bids on a discount rate basis. 

The average discount rate is the weighted, or adjusted, 

average of all bids accepted in the auction. 

Budget authority (“Federal Fiscal Operations”)—Congress 

passes laws giving budget authority to Government entities, 

which gives the agencies the power to spend Federal funds. 

Congress can stipulate various criteria for the spending of 

these funds. For example, Congress can stipulate that a given 

agency must spend within a specific year, number of years, or 

any time in the future. 

The basic forms of budget authority are appropriations, 

authority to borrow, contract authority, and authority to 

obligate and expend offsetting receipts and collections. The 

period of time during which Congress makes funds available 

may be specified as 1-year, multiple-year, or no-year. The 

available amount may be classified as either definite or 

indefinite; a specific amount or an unspecified amount can 

be made available. Authority also may be classified as 

current or permanent. Permanent authority requires no 

current action by Congress. 

Budget deficit—The total, cumulative amount by which 

budget outlays (spending) exceed budget receipts (income). 

Cash management bills (PDO-1)—Marketable Treasury 

bills of irregular maturity lengths, sold periodically to fund 

short-term cash needs of Treasury. Their sale, having higher 

minimum and multiple purchase requirements than those of 

other issues, is generally restricted to competitive bidders. 

Competitive tenders (“Treasury Financing Operations”)—

A bid to purchase a stated amount of one issue of Treasury 

securities at a specified yield or discount. The bid is accepted 

if it is within the range accepted in the auction. (See 

Noncompetitive tenders.) 

Currency no longer issued (USCC)—Old and new series 

gold and silver certificates, Federal Reserve notes, national 

bank notes, and 1890 Series Treasury notes. 

Debt outstanding subject to limitation (FD-6)—The debt 

incurred by the Treasury subject to the statutory limit set by 

Congress. Until World War I, a specific amount of debt was 

authorized to each separate security issue. Beginning with the 

Second Liberty Loan Act of 1917, the nature of the limitation 

was modified until, in 1941, it developed into an overall limit 

on the outstanding Federal debt. As of September 2013, the 

debt limit was 16,699,421 million; the limit may change from 

year to year. 

Pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 3101(b): By the Continuing 

Appropriations Act, 2014, Public Law 113-46, the Statutory 

Debt Limit has been suspended and shall not apply for the 

period beginning October 17, 2013, and ending on February 7, 

2014. 

Discount—The interest deducted in advance when purchasing 

notes or bonds. (See Accrued discount.) 

Discount rate (PDO-1)—The difference between par value 

and the actual purchase price paid, annualized over a 360-day 

year. Because this rate is less than the actual yield (couponequivalent rate), the yield should be used in any comparison 

with coupon issue securities. 

Dollar coins (USCC)—Include standard silver and nonsilver 

coins. 

Domestic series (FD-2)—Nonmarketable, interest- and noninterest-bearing securities issued periodically by Treasury to 

the Resolution Funding Corporation (RFC) for investment of 

funds authorized under section 21B of the Federal Home Loan 

Bank Act (12 United States Code 1441b). 

Federal intrafund transactions (“Federal Fiscal Operations”)—Intrabudgetary transactions in which payments and 

receipts both occur within the same Federal fund group 

(Federal funds or trust funds). 

Federal Reserve notes (USCC)—Issues by the U.S. 

Government to the public through the Federal Reserve banks 

and their member banks. They represent money owed by the 

Government to the public. Currently, the item “Federal 

Reserve notes—amounts outstanding” consists of new series 

issues. The Federal Reserve note is the only class of currency 

currently issued. 

Foreign-targeted issue (PDO-2)—Foreign-targeted issues 

were notes sold between October 1984 and February 1986 to 

foreign institutions, foreign branches of U.S. institutions, 

foreign central banks or monetary authorities, or to 

international organizations in which the United States held 

membership. Sold as companion issues, they could be 

converted to domestic (normal) Treasury notes with the same 

maturity and interest rates. Interest was paid annually. 
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Fractional coins (USCC)—Coins minted in denominations 

of 50, 25, and 10 cents, and minor coins (5 cents and 1 cent). 

Government account series (FD-2)—Certain trust fund 

statutes require the Secretary of the Treasury to apply monies 

held by these funds toward the issuance of nonmarketable 

special securities. These securities are sold directly by 

Treasury to a specific Government agency, trust fund, or 

account. Their rate is based on an average of market yields on 

outstanding Treasury obligations, and they may be redeemed 

at the option of the holder. Roughly 80 percent of these are 

issued to five holders: the Federal Old-Age and Survivors 

Insurance Trust Fund; the civil service retirement and 

disability fund; the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund; the 

military retirement fund; and the Unemployment Trust Fund. 

Interfund transactions (“Federal Fiscal Operations”)—

Transactions in which payments are made from one fund 

group (either Federal funds or trust funds) to a receipt account 

in another group. 

International Monetary Fund transactions (“Exchange 

Stabilization Fund”, ESF-1)—(IMF) Established by the 

United Nations, the IMF promotes international trade, stability 

of exchange, and monetary cooperation. Members are allowed 

to draw from the fund. 

Intrabudgetary transactions (“Federal Fiscal Operations”)—

These occur when payment and receipt both occur within the 

budget, or when payment is made from off-budget Federal 

entities whose budget authority and outlays are excluded from 

the budget totals. 

Noncompetitive tenders (“Treasury Financing Operations”)—This is a tender or bid to purchase a stated par 

amount of securities at the highest yield or discount rate 

awarded to competitive bidders for a single-price auction. 

Obligations (“Federal Fiscal Operations”)—An unpaid 

commitment to acquire goods or services. 

Off-budget Federal entities (“Federal Fiscal Operations”)—

Federally owned and controlled entities whose transactions are 

excluded from the budget totals under provisions of law. Their 

receipts, outlays, and surplus or deficit are not included in 

budget receipts, outlays, or deficits. Their budget authority is 

not included in totals of the budget. 

Outlays (“Federal Fiscal Operations”)—Payments on 

obligations in the form of cash, checks, the issuance of bonds 

or notes, or the maturing of interest coupons. 

Par value—The face value of bonds or notes, including 

interest. 

Quarterly financing (“Treasury Financing Operations”)—

Treasury has historically offered packages of several 

“coupon” security issues on the 15th of February, May, 

August, and November, or on the next working day. These 

issues currently consist of a 3-year note, a 10-year note, and a 

30-year bond. Treasury sometimes offers additional amounts 

of outstanding long-term notes or bonds, rather than selling 

new security issues. (See Reopening.) 

Receipts (“Federal Fiscal Operations”)—Funds collected 

from selling land, capital, or services, as well as collections 

from the public (budget receipts), such as taxes, fines, duties, 

and fees. 

Reopening (PDO-2)—The offer for sale of additional 

amounts of outstanding issues, rather than an entirely new 

issue. A reopened issue will always have the same maturity 

date, CUSIP-number, and interest rate as the original issue. 

Special drawing rights (“Exchange Stabilization Fund,” 

ESF-1)—International assets created by IMF that serve to 

increase international liquidity and provide additional 

international reserves. SDRs may be purchased and sold 

among eligible holders through IMF. (See IMF.) 

SDR allocations are the counterpart to SDRs issued by 

IMF based on members’ quotas in IMF. Although shown in 

Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) statements as liabilities, 

they must be redeemed by ESF only in the event of 

liquidation of, or U.S. withdrawal from, the SDR department 

of IMF or cancellation of SDRs. 

SDR certificates are issued to the Federal Reserve 

System against SDRs when SDRs are legalized as money. 

Proceeds of monetization are deposited into an ESF account 

at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. 

Spot (“Foreign Currency Positions”)—Due for receipt or 

delivery within 2 workdays. 

State and local government series (SLGS) (FD-2)—Special 

nonmarketable certificates, notes, and bonds offered to State 

and local governments as a means to invest proceeds from 

their own tax-exempt financing. Interest rates and maturities 

comply with IRS arbitrage provisions. SLGS are offered in 

both time deposit and demand deposit forms. Time deposit 

certificates have maturities of up to 1 year. Notes mature in 1 

to 10 years and bonds mature in more than 10 years. Demand 

deposit securities are 1-day certificates rolled over with a rate 

adjustment daily. 

Statutory debt limit (FD-6)—By Act of Congress there is a 

limit, either temporary or permanent, on the amount of public 

debt that may be outstanding. When this limit is reached, 

Treasury may not sell new debt issues until Congress 

increases or extends the limit. For a detailed listing of changes 

in the limit since 1941, see the Budget of the United States 

Government. (See debt outstanding subject to limitation.) 

STRIPS (PDO-2)—Separate Trading of Registered Interest 

and Principal Securities. Long-term notes and bonds may be 

divided into principal and interest-paying components, which 

may be transferred and sold in amounts as small as $1,000. 

STRIPS are sold at auction at a minimum par amount, varying 

for each issue. The amount is an arithmetic function of the 

issue’s interest rate. 
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Treasury bills—The shortest term Federal security (maturity 

dates normally varying from 3 to 12 months), are sold at a 

discount. 

Trust fund transaction (“Federal Fiscal Operations”)—

An intrabudgetary transaction in which both payments and 

receipts occur within the same trust fund group. 

United States—Includes the 50 States, District of Columbia, 

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Midway 

Island, Virgin Islands, Wake Island, and all other territories 

and possessions. 

U.S. notes (USCC)—Legal tender notes of five different 

issues: 1862 ($5-$1,000 notes); 1862 ($1-$2 notes); 1863 ($5-

$1,000 notes); 1863 ($1-$10,000 notes); and 1901 ($10 notes).