Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in Louisiana

What the VA–Louisiana join is

Awarding agency 036 and place-of-performance state LA meet here. $8,259,971,752.58 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 Louisiana, and not an outlay register. Health care, benefits, and construction can share 036. A high row count against $8.26 billion yields a smaller mean than thin VA books; that is not a quality ranking.

23,193 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 Unique recipients are unpublished.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 $8,259,971,752.58 by 23,193 yields about $356,141 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 Louisiana for the live filtered table, Louisiana federal spending for every awarding agency in the state extract, Department of Veterans Affairs for agency 036 without a Louisiana filter, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $8,259,971,752.58.

Awarding agency 036 as the VA side

USAspending labels awarding agency 036 as Department of Veterans Affairs. That code produced $8,259,971,752.58 when crossed with Louisiana place of performance. The agency-wide 036 hub does not require LA geography. The Louisiana hub does not require VA. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 23,193 awards.

A veteran census, a storm-recovery score, and a medical-versus-benefits split are unpublished. 23,193 awards is an action count, not a patient roster. A second VA slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Louisiana’s 036 cell as a synonym for every VA account.

Louisiana as place of performance (LA)

Louisiana on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to Louisiana residents. Awards can list LA while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged Texas, Mississippi, or Arkansas stay on those ties even when the Gulf Coast labor market crosses the line. Orleans Parish and north Louisiana share one LA stamp.

Louisiana federal spending shows how agency 036 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same geography. $8,259,971,752.58 is one column in that table, not the table. This packet does not split Louisiana by county, metro, or congressional district.

Obligations, not outlays

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $8,259,971,752.58 is that kind of sum for Department of Veterans Affairs inside Louisiana 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.

Louisiana’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 23,193-row VA cell leaves USAspending.gov. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $8,259,971,752.58 as given. Treat 23,193 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors.

How to cite VA in Louisiana

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligated $8,259,971,752.58 on 23,193 awards coded to Louisiana. Name Department of Veterans Affairs and Louisiana together. Keep the obligation word. If Department of Veterans Affairs in Louisiana has refreshed, quote the overlay over this snapshot.

Keep Department of Veterans Affairs, Louisiana, $8,259,971,752.58, and 23,193 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 parent without a Louisiana 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 Louisiana?

USAspending.gov lists $8,259,971,752.58 in Department of Veterans Affairs obligations across 23,193 Louisiana-coded awards. Agency 036 × LA is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Louisiana’s complete federal ledger. Department of Veterans Affairs in Louisiana is the live overlay for this pair. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $356,141, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does this total include every VA program in Louisiana?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup, not a program pie. $8,259,971,752.58 is the combined obligation sum for agency 036 inside Louisiana coding. Open Department of Veterans Affairs in Louisiana to inspect award lines. 23,193 is an action count, not a program count. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not invent a CFDA split from the department label.

Is $8,259,971,752.58 cash already paid in Louisiana?

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 $8,259,971,752.58 as checks already cleared in Louisiana confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 23,193 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live VA–Louisiana table?

Department of Veterans Affairs in Louisiana is the overlay. Louisiana 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 $8,259,971,752.58. Place of performance is LA, not a county map. Obligations are not outlays.