Department of Veterans Affairs in Massachusetts

What the VA–Massachusetts join is

Awarding agency 036 and place-of-performance state MA meet here. $8,868,638,819.56 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 Massachusetts, and not an outlay register. Health care, benefits administration, and construction can share awarding agency 036. The harvest does not split those books, so do not quote the cell as ‘Boston VA payroll.’

10,985 is a mid-thickness book: not a handful of oversized rows, not a farm-program flood of small actions. Modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Dividing $8,868,638,819.56 by 10,985 yields about $807,341 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 Massachusetts for the live filtered table, Massachusetts federal spending for every awarding agency in the state extract, Department of Veterans Affairs for agency 036 without a Massachusetts filter, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $8,868,638,819.56.

Awarding agency 036 as the VA side

USAspending labels awarding agency 036 as Department of Veterans Affairs. That code produced $8,868,638,819.56 when crossed with Massachusetts place of performance. The agency-wide 036 hub does not require MA geography. The Massachusetts hub does not require VA. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 10,985 awards.

Veteran headcount, disability-versus-medical splits, and hospital rankings are not in the facts. $8.87 billion is an obligation sum, not a census of veterans in the Commonwealth. A second VA slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Massachusetts’s 036 cell as a synonym for every VA account.

Questions

How much VA spending is coded to Massachusetts?

USAspending.gov lists $8,868,638,819.56 in Department of Veterans Affairs obligations across 10,985 Massachusetts-coded awards. Agency 036 × MA is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Massachusetts’s complete federal ledger. Department of Veterans Affairs in Massachusetts is the live overlay for this pair. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $807,341, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does this total include every VA program in Massachusetts?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. Health care, benefits administration, and construction can share awarding agency 036. The harvest does not split those books, so do not quote the cell as ‘Boston VA payroll.’ $8,868,638,819.56 is the combined obligation sum for agency 036 inside Massachusetts coding. This page will not invent a program pie. Open Department of Veterans Affairs in Massachusetts to inspect award lines. 10,985 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $8,868,638,819.56 cash already paid in Massachusetts?

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 $8,868,638,819.56 as checks already cleared in Massachusetts confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 10,985 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live VA–Massachusetts table?

Department of Veterans Affairs in Massachusetts is the overlay. Massachusetts 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 $8,868,638,819.56. Place of performance is MA, not a county map. Obligations are not outlays.