Department of Veterans Affairs in Kentucky
Federal obligations from Department of Veterans Affairs to Kentucky
Total obligated
$7.59B
Awards
39K
USAspending.gov records $7,275,275,987.06 in Department of Veterans Affairs obligations under awarding agency 036 with place of performance in Kentucky, across 36,962 awards. Louisville and Lexington VA folklore, plus Fort Knox-adjacent talk, is the usual entry. Fort Knox is not a published subtotal, and a named Army post is not awarding agency 036. The pair is Department of Veterans Affairs and Kentucky — not Kentucky’s entire federal inflow and not cash already paid. Average obligation is about $196,831 ($7,275,275,987.06 ÷ 36,962).
Key figures
- VA in Kentucky: $7,275,275,987.06 across 36,962 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $196,831 per record, not a typical award size.
- Agency 036 × KY is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a program split.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote Department of Veterans Affairs in Kentucky if the live table moved.
- Kentucky federal spending and Department of Veterans Affairs are parents, not amounts to add into $7,275,275,987.06.
What the VA–Kentucky join is
Awarding agency 036 and place-of-performance state KY meet here. $7,275,275,987.06 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 Kentucky, and not an outlay register. Health care, benefits, and construction can share 036. A thick action file is not a ranking of Kentucky veterans against Indiana or Minnesota.
36,962 is a high row count for this dollar scale, so the mean is smaller than thin Energy-style books. Modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Dividing $7,275,275,987.06 by 36,962 yields about $196,831 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line.
Open Department of Veterans Affairs in Kentucky for the live filtered table, Kentucky federal spending for every awarding agency in the state extract, Department of Veterans Affairs for agency 036 without a Kentucky filter, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $7,275,275,987.06.
Awarding agency 036 as the VA side
USAspending labels awarding agency 036 as Department of Veterans Affairs. That code produced $7,275,275,987.06 when crossed with Kentucky place of performance. The agency-wide 036 hub does not require KY geography. The Kentucky hub does not require VA. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 36,962 awards.
A veteran census and a medical-versus-benefits split are unpublished. 36,962 awards is the thickest VA book in this slice, so the implied mean is relatively small. A second VA slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Kentucky’s 036 cell as a synonym for every VA account.
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Questions
- How much VA spending is coded to Kentucky?
- USAspending.gov lists $7,275,275,987.06 in Department of Veterans Affairs obligations across 36,962 Kentucky-coded awards. Agency 036 × KY is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Kentucky’s complete federal ledger. Department of Veterans Affairs in Kentucky is the live overlay for this pair. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $196,831, a ratio of those two facts only.
- Does this total include every VA program in Kentucky?
- The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup, not a program pie. $7,275,275,987.06 is the combined obligation sum for agency 036 inside Kentucky coding. Open Department of Veterans Affairs in Kentucky to inspect award lines. 36,962 is an action count, not a program count. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not invent a CFDA split from the department label.
- Is $7,275,275,987.06 cash already paid in Kentucky?
- 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 $7,275,275,987.06 as checks already cleared in Kentucky confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 36,962 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.
- Where is the live VA–Kentucky table?
- Department of Veterans Affairs in Kentucky is the overlay. Kentucky 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 $7,275,275,987.06. Place of performance is KY, not a county map. Obligations are not outlays.
USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.
How this pair fits
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