Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in Delaware

VA awards tagged to Delaware

Department of Veterans Affairs as awarding agency, Delaware as place-of-performance: 2,085 records summing to $1,700,925,570.65. A Department of Veterans Affairs award coded outside DE is out. An award in Delaware from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Delaware (DE) excludes Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. A Wilmington, Pennsylvania-coded award is PA even if the veteran lives in Delaware.

Two thousand eighty-five awards is a moderate VA action file for a small state: not a handful of construction rows, not a national enrollment dump. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 2,085 as 2,085 unique veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings. The overlay Department of Veterans Affairs in Delaware is the both-keys table. Delaware federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Veterans Affairs is the agency book without a DE filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Wilmington versus Sussex clinic folklore is unpublished. Health care, benefits, and construction can share 036 without a published split. Correlation is not causation: Delaware did not cause $1,700,925,570.65 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 036 × DE only.

Award rows are not unique veterans

$1,700,925,570.65 does not measure veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 036 and a DE place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 2,085 awards as a census of veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Delaware federal spending or Department of Veterans Affairs matched $1,700,925,570.65 and 2,085, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey VA joins are other pairs, not addends.

Delaware, not a Delmarva catchment

Place of performance DE is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Delaware (DE) excludes Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. A Wilmington, Pennsylvania-coded award is PA even if the veteran lives in Delaware. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Wilmington versus Sussex clinic folklore is unpublished. Health care, benefits, and construction can share 036 without a published split. This packet does not split $1,700,925,570.65 by city, county, or named facility. 2,085 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Obligations ahead of clinic cash

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,700,925,570.65 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Delaware confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Delaware’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 2,085-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 $1,700,925,570.65.

Citing the VA–Delaware pair

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligated $1,700,925,570.65 on 2,085 awards coded to Delaware. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings.

Prefer Department of Veterans Affairs in Delaware if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Delaware federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to DE. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 parent without the DE filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,700,925,570.65.

A usable footnote names Department of Veterans Affairs, Delaware, $1,700,925,570.65, and 2,085. The compact headline $1.70 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $815,792 is $1,700,925,570.65 divided by 2,085. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

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

USAspending.gov records $1,700,925,570.65 across 2,085 awards with awarding agency 036 and a Delaware tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings. Department of Veterans Affairs in Delaware is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,700,925,570.65.

Is $1,700,925,570.65 a measure of veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings?

No. The packet publishes $1,700,925,570.65 and 2,085 awards for agency 036 inside DE 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 2,085 awards?

That is the award-record count for 036 × DE. Combined with $1,700,925,570.65, the average is about $815,792. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 2,085 is not unique veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live VA–Delaware table?

Department of Veterans Affairs in Delaware is the overlay. Delaware 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 $1,700,925,570.65. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays. Place of performance is DE.