Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in Connecticut

VA awards tagged to Connecticut

Department of Veterans Affairs as awarding agency, Connecticut as place-of-performance: 5,421 records summing to $3,384,750,458.92. A Department of Veterans Affairs award coded outside CT is out. An award in Connecticut from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Connecticut (CT) excludes New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. A Springfield-coded award is Massachusetts.

Five thousand four hundred twenty-one awards is a mid-to-high VA action file: thicker than a thin Energy cell, thinner than a USDA assistance flood. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 5,421 as 5,421 unique enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. The overlay Department of Veterans Affairs in Connecticut is the both-keys table. Connecticut federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Veterans Affairs is the agency book without a CT filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

West Haven clinic folklore is not a packet split. $3,384,750,458.92 stays statewide on 036 × CT. Correlation is not causation: Connecticut did not “cause” $3,384,750,458.92 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 036 × CT only.

5,421 rows are not 5,421 veterans

$3,384,750,458.92 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 a CT place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 5,421 awards as a census of enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Connecticut federal spending or Department of Veterans Affairs matched $3,384,750,458.92 and 5,421, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island VA joins are other pairs, not addends.

Connecticut, not a New England VA rollup

Place of performance CT is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Connecticut (CT) excludes New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. A Springfield-coded award is Massachusetts. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

West Haven clinic folklore is not a packet split. $3,384,750,458.92 stays statewide on 036 × CT. This packet does not split $3,384,750,458.92 by city, county, or named facility. 5,421 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Obligations, not clinic disbursements

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $3,384,750,458.92 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Connecticut confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Connecticut’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 5,421-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 $3,384,750,458.92.

Citing the VA–Connecticut join

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligated $3,384,750,458.92 on 5,421 awards coded to Connecticut. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings.

Prefer Department of Veterans Affairs in Connecticut if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Connecticut federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to CT. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 parent without the CT filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $3,384,750,458.92.

A usable footnote names Department of Veterans Affairs, Connecticut, $3,384,750,458.92, and 5,421. The compact headline $3.38 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $624,378 is $3,384,750,458.92 divided by 5,421. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

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

USAspending.gov records $3,384,750,458.92 across 5,421 awards with awarding agency 036 and a Connecticut 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 Connecticut is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $3,384,750,458.92.

Is $3,384,750,458.92 a measure of enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings?

No. The packet publishes $3,384,750,458.92 and 5,421 awards for agency 036 inside CT 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 5,421 awards?

That is the award-record count for 036 × CT. Combined with $3,384,750,458.92, the average is about $624,378. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 5,421 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 Connecticut is the overlay. Connecticut 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 $3,384,750,458.92. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.