Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in Kentucky

What the VA–Kentucky join is

Awarding agency 036 and place-of-performance state KY meet here. $7,275,275,987.06 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Veterans Affairs’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Kentucky, and not an outlay register. Health care, benefits, and construction can share 036. A thick action file is not a ranking of Kentucky veterans against Indiana or Minnesota.

36,962 is a high row count for this dollar scale, so the mean is smaller than thin Energy-style books. Modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Dividing $7,275,275,987.06 by 36,962 yields about $196,831 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line.

Open Department of Veterans Affairs in Kentucky for the live filtered table, Kentucky federal spending for every awarding agency in the state extract, Department of Veterans Affairs for agency 036 without a Kentucky filter, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $7,275,275,987.06.

Awarding agency 036 as the VA side

USAspending labels awarding agency 036 as Department of Veterans Affairs. That code produced $7,275,275,987.06 when crossed with Kentucky place of performance. The agency-wide 036 hub does not require KY geography. The Kentucky hub does not require VA. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 36,962 awards.

A veteran census and a medical-versus-benefits split are unpublished. 36,962 awards is the thickest VA book in this slice, so the implied mean is relatively small. A second VA slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Kentucky’s 036 cell as a synonym for every VA account.

Kentucky as place of performance (KY)

Kentucky on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to Kentucky residents. Awards can list KY while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, or West Virginia stay on those ties even when the Ohio River is the commute. Jefferson County and eastern Kentucky share one KY stamp.

Kentucky federal spending shows how agency 036 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same geography. $7,275,275,987.06 is one column in that table, not the table. This packet does not split Kentucky by county, metro, or congressional district.

Obligations, not outlays

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $7,275,275,987.06 is that kind of sum for Department of Veterans Affairs inside Kentucky coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them.

Kentucky’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 36,962-row VA cell leaves USAspending.gov. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $7,275,275,987.06 as given. Treat 36,962 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors.

How to cite VA in Kentucky

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligated $7,275,275,987.06 on 36,962 awards coded to Kentucky. Name Department of Veterans Affairs and Kentucky together. Keep the obligation word. If Department of Veterans Affairs in Kentucky has refreshed, quote the overlay over this snapshot.

Keep Department of Veterans Affairs, Kentucky, $7,275,275,987.06, and 36,962 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 parent without a Kentucky filter. Do not add those parents to this cell. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished.

Questions

How much VA spending is coded to Kentucky?

USAspending.gov lists $7,275,275,987.06 in Department of Veterans Affairs obligations across 36,962 Kentucky-coded awards. Agency 036 × KY is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Kentucky’s complete federal ledger. Department of Veterans Affairs in Kentucky is the live overlay for this pair. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $196,831, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does this total include every VA program in Kentucky?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup, not a program pie. $7,275,275,987.06 is the combined obligation sum for agency 036 inside Kentucky coding. Open Department of Veterans Affairs in Kentucky to inspect award lines. 36,962 is an action count, not a program count. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not invent a CFDA split from the department label.

Is $7,275,275,987.06 cash already paid in Kentucky?

No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $7,275,275,987.06 as checks already cleared in Kentucky confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 36,962 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live VA–Kentucky table?

Department of Veterans Affairs in Kentucky is the overlay. Kentucky federal spending and Department of Veterans Affairs are the parents. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Those hubs are not addends. Keep both sides of the join when citing $7,275,275,987.06. Place of performance is KY, not a county map. Obligations are not outlays.