Federal expenditures include retirement and disability payments, other direct payments, grants, procurement, and salaries and wages. Retirement and disability programs include federal employee retirement and disability benefits, Social Security payments of all types, selected Veterans Administration programs, and selected other federal programs. Examples of items in this category are Medicare benefits, unemployment compensation, housing assistance, and agricultural assistance. The grants category represents the federal obligation incurred at the time the grant was awarded. This category includes formula grants, project grants, and block grants.
Procurement refers to governmental purchases and contracts.
Agencies such as Agriculture, Education, Energy, and the Postal Service can receive procurement contracts. The salaries category includes salaries and wages for military personnel, postal employees, and employees of the FBI and CIA, to name a few. For Ohio this was the smallest category of federal expenditures. Other includes direct payments to individuals other than for retirement and disability and direct payments other than to individuals. All educational programs conducted by Ohio State University Extension are available to clientele on a nondiscriminatory basis without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, gender, age, disability or Vietnam-era veteran status.