Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in Colorado

VA’s Colorado-coded award book

Keep two filters in view. Awarding agency is Department of Veterans Affairs, agency 036. Geography is Colorado. The surviving file is $14,862,274,343.41 and 20,777 awards. Medical care, construction, and benefits-related vehicles can share the VA awarding-agency code. This packet does not classify the mix. Other awarding agencies inside Colorado sit on other pages even when the same metro hosts their work.

Dollars per record come to about $715,323. That mean mixes large assistance or contract vehicles with smaller actions. It is not a typical clinic visit and not a per-veteran payment. Unique recipients are unpublished. Colorado’s VA file is 20,777 award rows beside a mid-teens billion obligation sum. Row count is how often actions were written, not a Front Range access grade. This page does not rank Colorado.

What the VA–Colorado pair is not

This join is not a veteran census, a wait-time score, or a care-quality grade. $14,862,274,343.41 measures award obligations with a 036 awarding-agency code and a CO place-of-performance tag. Colorado’s Front Range and Western Slope share the CO tag. This packet does not split Denver from mountain counties. Neighbor-state awards stay in other cells.

Department of Veterans Affairs in Colorado is the overlay. Colorado federal spending still includes every other awarding agency in the state extract. Department of Veterans Affairs is the parent agency hub without a Colorado filter. All spending ties holds the rest of the join list. Correlation is not causation: sharing a state with VA does not mean the state caused the cell.

Obligation versus outlay on agency 036

Assistance and contract awards can obligate in one fiscal window and pay on a different schedule. $14,862,274,343.41 is the commitment sum. Treating it as cash already cleared in Colorado confuses obligations with outlays. The packet does not assign a fiscal year to the headline; treat $14,862,274,343.41 as the obligation total present in the indexed file.

Colorado’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 20,777-row VA cell leaves USAspending.gov. Net obligations can include de-obligations. The implied mean near $715,323 is dollars divided by records, not a typical clinic visit and not a per-veteran payment.

One CO tag, not Denver metro versus mountain counties

This packet does not split $14,862,274,343.41 by county, metro, or the Front Range and the Western Slope. 20,777 awards stay statewide. Neighboring Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska remain other state cells even when labor markets or projects cross those lines. Publishing Denver metro versus mountain counties as a subtotal would invent a number.

Place of performance can follow work in-state, a recipient address, or a reporting convention. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 hub without a Colorado filter. Use it for the agency book; use this page for the CO intersection only.

Citing VA in Colorado

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Veterans Affairs (036) obligated $14,862,274,343.41 on 20,777 awards coded to Colorado. Name VA and Colorado together. Keep the obligation word. If Department of Veterans Affairs in Colorado has refreshed, quote the overlay over this snapshot.

Peer VA-state joins use the same two facts—dollars and award counts—and still are not a ranking of VA importance. Colorado federal spending includes other agency cells that must not be added into this total. All spending ties is the index. Obligations are not outlays.

How to reuse the Colorado VA integers

Keep Department of Veterans Affairs, Colorado, $14,862,274,343.41, and 20,777 awards together. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. Do not treat 20,777 as unique organizations. Do not annualize without a year field. Colorado’s VA file is 20,777 award rows beside a mid-teens billion obligation sum. Row count is how often actions were written, not a Front Range access grade. This page does not rank Colorado.

Refresh from Department of Veterans Affairs in Colorado after ingests. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 parent without a Colorado filter. Colorado federal spending is the all-agency parent. All spending ties indexes other pairs. USAspending.gov is the source. Keep the obligation label on $14,862,274,343.41.

Questions

How much VA spending is coded to Colorado?

USAspending.gov lists $14,862,274,343.41 in Department of Veterans Affairs obligations across 20,777 Colorado-coded awards. Agency 036 × CO is an obligation join, not an outlay. Department of Veterans Affairs in Colorado is the live overlay. Later ingests can revise 20,777 awards; prefer the overlay if the table moved.

What programs sit inside the VA–Colorado total?

The packet does not split medical care, construction, and benefits vehicles. $14,862,274,343.41 is the combined obligation sum for awarding agency 036 inside Colorado coding. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote $14,862,274,343.41 and 20,777 together. Do not infer a program mix from the state tag alone.

Is $14,862,274,343.41 cash already spent in Colorado?

No. $14,862,274,343.41 is an obligation total on USAspending.gov, not an outlay register and not a Treasury payment file. Awards can obligate in one window and pay on another. SpendingVault indexes the pair; it does not convert 20,777 awards into cash already paid.

Where is the live VA–Colorado table?

Department of Veterans Affairs in Colorado is the overlay at /states/co/agencies/036/. Colorado federal spending and Department of Veterans Affairs are the parent hubs, not addends. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $14,862,274,343.41. Obligations are not outlays.