Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in California
Department of Veterans Affairs obligations coded to California total $56,048,352,728.98 on USAspending.gov, across 44,269 awards. Awarding-agency 036 and California (CA) meet here. California’s size does not, by itself, explain the cell: population is not a packet fact, and this page will not invent a per-veteran ratio. The dollars are obligations, not outlays.
Key figures
- VA in California: $56,048,352,728.98 across 44,269 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $1.27 million per record, not spending per veteran.
- Agency 036 × CA is not a care-quality score.
- Cite obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.
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Veteran population is unpublished.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.
When obligations outrun cash
Medical-center and construction vehicles often commit ahead of payment. $56,048,352,728.98 should be cited as obligations on the 44,269 awards. It is not a statement that Treasury already paid that amount in California.
Sacramento’s budget is a different series. Mixing it with USAspending.gov leaves the award file this page cites. California’s 44,269 VA records sit beside USDA, Energy, NASA, and Education joins that use other agency codes. Adding those cells to $56,048,352,728.98 would invent a hybrid statewide total. Department of Veterans Affairs in California stays 036. Unique veterans remain unpublished; 44,269 is an action count, including modifications.
One CA tag for a large state
Northern, Central, and Southern California medical-center maps are unpublished. $56,048,352,728.98 and 44,269 awards stay statewide. A VISN table would be a different extract.
Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 hub without a California filter. Use it for the agency book; use this page for the CA cell only. A later ingest can move 44,269 and $56,048,352,728.98 together or separately. Recheck Department of Veterans Affairs in California rather than editing this snapshot by hand. Community-care versus medical-center shares remain unpublished; do not invent them from the mean.
Citing VA in California
Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Veterans Affairs (036) obligated $56,048,352,728.98 on 44,269 awards coded to California. Keep both names. Keep “obligations.”
Quote Department of Veterans Affairs in California if the overlay has moved. A mean near $1.27 million is dollars divided by records, not spending per veteran. California federal spending is the all-agency parent. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 parent. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Prefer the overlay after ingests. Keep the obligation label on $56,048,352,728.98. USAspending.gov is the source, not a wait-time dashboard.
Reusing the California VA integers
Keep Department of Veterans Affairs, California, $56,048,352,728.98, and 44,269 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 hub without a California filter.
Do not per-veteran the dollar total. Do not call 44,269 a visit count. Do not grade wait times from an obligation sum. Population and quality metrics are unpublished. Refresh from Department of Veterans Affairs in California after ingests. Keep the obligation label on $56,048,352,728.98. USAspending.gov is the source.
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.
USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.