Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in Idaho

VA awards tagged to Idaho

Department of Veterans Affairs as awarding agency, Idaho as place-of-performance: 12,358 records summing to $3,470,437,997.20. A Department of Veterans Affairs award coded outside ID is out. An award in Idaho from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Idaho (ID) excludes Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana. A Spokane-coded award is Washington.

Twelve thousand three hundred fifty-eight awards is a high-count VA action file: many more rows than a thin Energy cell, still a record count rather than unique veterans. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 12,358 as 12,358 unique enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. The overlay Department of Veterans Affairs in Idaho is the both-keys table. Idaho federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Veterans Affairs is the agency book without an ID filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Boise-versus-eastern-Idaho clinic folklore is not a packet split. $3,470,437,997.20 stays statewide. Correlation is not causation: Idaho did not “cause” $3,470,437,997.20 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 036 × ID only.

Award rows are not unique veterans

$3,470,437,997.20 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 ID place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 12,358 awards as a census of enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Idaho federal spending or Department of Veterans Affairs matched $3,470,437,997.20 and 12,358, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Washington, Oregon, and Montana VA joins are other pairs, not addends.

Idaho, not a Pacific Northwest VA rollup

Place of performance ID is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Idaho (ID) excludes Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana. A Spokane-coded award is Washington. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Boise-versus-eastern-Idaho clinic folklore is not a packet split. $3,470,437,997.20 stays statewide. This packet does not split $3,470,437,997.20 by city, county, or named facility. 12,358 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. $3,470,437,997.20 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Idaho confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Idaho’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 12,358-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 $3,470,437,997.20.

Citing the VA–Idaho pair

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligated $3,470,437,997.20 on 12,358 awards coded to Idaho. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings.

Prefer Department of Veterans Affairs in Idaho if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Idaho federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to ID. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 parent without the ID filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $3,470,437,997.20.

A usable footnote names Department of Veterans Affairs, Idaho, $3,470,437,997.20, and 12,358. The compact headline $3.47 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $280,825 is $3,470,437,997.20 divided by 12,358. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

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

USAspending.gov records $3,470,437,997.20 across 12,358 awards with awarding agency 036 and an Idaho 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 Idaho is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $3,470,437,997.20.

Is $3,470,437,997.20 a measure of enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings?

No. The packet publishes $3,470,437,997.20 and 12,358 awards for agency 036 inside ID 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 12,358 awards?

That is the award-record count for 036 × ID. Combined with $3,470,437,997.20, the average is about $280,825. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 12,358 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 Idaho is the overlay. Idaho 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 $3,470,437,997.20. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.