Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in Alaska

VA awards tagged to Alaska

Department of Veterans Affairs as awarding agency, Alaska as place-of-performance: 4,802 records summing to $2,663,605,980.98. A Department of Veterans Affairs award coded outside AK is out. An award in Alaska from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Alaska (AK) excludes Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii. Place of performance is a state tag, not a travel-for-care catchment.

Four thousand eight hundred two awards is a mid-count VA file: many more rows than a thin Energy cell, far fewer than a USDA assistance flood. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 4,802 as 4,802 unique enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. The overlay Department of Veterans Affairs in Alaska is the both-keys table. Alaska federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Veterans Affairs is the agency book without an AK filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Anchorage-versus-Fairbanks clinic folklore is not a packet split. The dollar total stays statewide. Correlation is not causation: Alaska did not “cause” $2,663,605,980.98 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 036 × AK only.

Award rows are not unique veterans

$2,663,605,980.98 does not measure enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 036 and an AK place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 4,802 awards as a census of enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Alaska federal spending or Department of Veterans Affairs matched $2,663,605,980.98 and 4,802, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Washington and Oregon VA joins are other pairs, not addends.

Alaska is not a Pacific Northwest catchment

Place of performance AK is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Alaska (AK) excludes Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii. Place of performance is a state tag, not a travel-for-care catchment. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Anchorage-versus-Fairbanks clinic folklore is not a packet split. The dollar total stays statewide. This packet does not split $2,663,605,980.98 by city, county, or named facility. 4,802 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Mid-count VA file, still commitments

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $2,663,605,980.98 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Alaska confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Alaska’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 4,802-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $2,663,605,980.98.

Citing the VA–Alaska pair

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligated $2,663,605,980.98 on 4,802 awards coded to Alaska. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings.

Prefer Department of Veterans Affairs in Alaska if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Alaska federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to AK. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 parent without the AK filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,663,605,980.98.

A usable footnote names Department of Veterans Affairs, Alaska, $2,663,605,980.98, and 4,802. The compact headline $2.66 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $554,687 is $2,663,605,980.98 divided by 4,802. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Veterans Affairs obligated in Alaska?

USAspending.gov records $2,663,605,980.98 across 4,802 awards with awarding agency 036 and an Alaska tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. Department of Veterans Affairs in Alaska is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,663,605,980.98.

Is $2,663,605,980.98 a measure of enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings?

No. The packet publishes $2,663,605,980.98 and 4,802 awards for agency 036 inside AK coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this VA file have 4,802 awards?

That is the award-record count for 036 × AK. Combined with $2,663,605,980.98, the average is about $554,687. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 4,802 is not unique enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Veterans Affairs in Alaska is the overlay. Alaska federal spending and Department of Veterans Affairs are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $2,663,605,980.98. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.