U.S. Treasury Judgment Fund — Aggregated Payments Dataset (2008–2025)

A structured aggregation of 113,969 payments made from the U.S. Treasury Judgment Fund between fiscal year 2008 and 2025, totaling $59.9 billion. The Judgment Fund is the permanent appropriation Congress created in 1956 (31 U.S.C. § 1304) to pay settlements and court judgments against the federal government. To our knowledge, this is the first public systematic aggregation of this data. The underlying records are available via the Bureau of the Fiscal Service payment search but have never been published in aggregated, analysis-ready form. Key findings: FY2020 payments spiked to $14.2B — ~10x normal volume — with 89% from a single citation category Top paying agencies: CMS ($13.6B), DOE ($13.3B), DOI ($6.0B) Federal medical malpractice under FTCA: 2,196 cases, $1.27B; VA is the largest payer Largest single payment: $1.9 billion Full analysis: https://settlementinsight.com/research/federal-government-payments Methodology: https://settlementinsight.com/methodology