Department of Veterans Affairs in Alabama

What the VA–Alabama join is

Awarding agency 036 and place-of-performance state AL meet here. $13,128,939,680.78 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Veterans Affairs’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Alabama, and not an outlay register. Veterans medical care, benefits, construction, and related instruments can all sit under awarding agency 036. The packet does not split VBA, VHA, or NCA. 26,149 is a substantial action file: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Dividing $13,128,939,680.78 by 26,149 yields about $502,082 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line, and it is not a VA hospital census, not a veteran headcount, and not a claims-backlog score. A second VA slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Alabama’s 036 cell as a synonym for every VA account.

Open Department of Veterans Affairs in Alabama for the live filtered table, Alabama federal spending for every awarding agency in the state extract, Department of Veterans Affairs for agency 036 without a Alabama filter, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $13,128,939,680.78.

Awarding agency 036 as the VA side

USAspending labels awarding agency 036 as Department of Veterans Affairs. That code produced $13,128,939,680.78 when crossed with Alabama place of performance. The agency-wide 036 hub does not require AL geography. The Alabama hub does not require VA. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 26,149 awards.

This page reports veterans-affairs awarding activity that USAspending coded to Alabama. Correlation is not causation: Alabama did not “cause” $13,128,939,680.78 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 036 × AL only. Veterans medical care, benefits, construction, and related instruments can all sit under awarding agency 036. The packet does not split VBA, VHA, or NCA.

Questions

How much VA spending is coded to Alabama?

USAspending.gov lists $13,128,939,680.78 in Department of Veterans Affairs obligations across 26,149 Alabama-coded awards. Agency 036 × AL is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Alabama’s complete federal ledger. Department of Veterans Affairs in Alabama is the live overlay for this pair. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $502,082, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does this total include every VA program in Alabama?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. Veterans medical care, benefits, construction, and related instruments can all sit under awarding agency 036. The packet does not split VBA, VHA, or NCA. $13,128,939,680.78 is the combined obligation sum for agency 036 inside Alabama coding. This page will not invent a program pie. Open Department of Veterans Affairs in Alabama to inspect award lines. 26,149 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $13,128,939,680.78 cash already paid in Alabama?

No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $13,128,939,680.78 as checks already cleared in Alabama confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 26,149 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live VA–Alabama table?

Department of Veterans Affairs in Alabama is the overlay. Alabama federal spending and Department of Veterans Affairs are the parents. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Those hubs are not addends. Keep both sides of the join when citing $13,128,939,680.78. Place of performance is AL, not a county map. Obligations are not outlays.