Department of Veterans Affairs in California

The VA–California overlap

Filter to Department of Veterans Affairs. Filter to California place-of-performance. Forty-four thousand two hundred sixty-nine records remain, summing to $56,048,352,728.98. A VA award in Nevada is excluded. An Education award in California is excluded.

The implied mean is about $1.27 million per award. Construction, medical-center operations, and smaller supply actions can share the 44,269-row count. This packet does not publish that mix.

Department of Veterans Affairs in California is the overlay. California federal spending still includes USDA, DOE, NASA, and every other awarding agency in the state extract. Forty-four thousand two hundred sixty-nine VA actions in California are still award records, not patients. $56,048,352,728.98 is the obligation sum on those records. Department of Veterans Affairs in California does not publish unique veterans, unique campuses, or a VISN split.

Not a West Coast care report

Facility ratings, homelessness programs, and claims processing times are not USAspending fields. $56,048,352,728.98 does not grade VA healthcare in California. It sums award commitments with an 036 code and a CA tag.

Veteran population is unpublished. Dividing the dollar total by an invented headcount would manufacture a statistic. 44,269 awards are actions, not patients. California did not “pull” VA dollars by being large. The join is geography plus agency code. Causation is not in the packet. All spending ties keeps the pair in a list of intersections, not a ranking of need. California’s other agency-state joins on this site—Energy, USDA, NASA, Education—are different awarding-agency codes. Adding them to $56,048,352,728.98 would invent a hybrid. California federal spending is the all-agency parent; this cell stays 036.

Questions

How much has VA obligated in California?

USAspending.gov shows $56,048,352,728.98 in Department of Veterans Affairs obligations across 44,269 California-coded awards. Agency 036 × CA is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a veteran headcount. USAspending.gov is the originating system. Department of Veterans Affairs in California is the live overlay for this pair. $56,048,352,728.98 remains an obligation sum, not an outlay, across 44,269 awards.

Is this spending per California veteran?

No. The packet has no population field. $56,048,352,728.98 and 44,269 awards are the published facts. Per-veteran math would need a denominator that is not here. This packet publishes only the Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) join inside California coding. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote $56,048,352,728.98 and 44,269 together.

Does a large state total mean better VA care?

No. $56,048,352,728.98 is an obligation sum, not a quality metric. Care outcomes are not fields in this USAspending join. SpendingVault indexes the pair; it does not convert $56,048,352,728.98 into cash already paid. Later ingests can revise 44,269 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Veterans Affairs in California is the overlay. California federal spending and Department of Veterans Affairs are the parents. All spending ties lists other pairs. California federal spending and Department of Veterans Affairs are parent hubs, not addends. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $56,048,352,728.98. Obligations are not outlays.