Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in Michigan

What the VA–Michigan join is

Awarding agency 036 and place-of-performance state MI meet here. $12,180,922,959.50 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 Michigan, and not an outlay register. Veterans medical care, benefits, construction, and related instruments can all sit under awarding agency 036. The packet does not split VBA, VHA, or NCA. 33,382 is a substantial action file: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Dividing $12,180,922,959.50 by 33,382 yields about $364,895 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line, and it is not a VA hospital census, not a veteran headcount, and not a claims-backlog score. A second VA slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Michigan’s 036 cell as a synonym for every VA account.

Open Department of Veterans Affairs in Michigan for the live filtered table, Michigan federal spending for every awarding agency in the state extract, Department of Veterans Affairs for agency 036 without a Michigan filter, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $12,180,922,959.50.

Awarding agency 036 as the VA side

USAspending labels awarding agency 036 as Department of Veterans Affairs. That code produced $12,180,922,959.50 when crossed with Michigan place of performance. The agency-wide 036 hub does not require MI geography. The Michigan hub does not require VA. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 33,382 awards.

This page reports veterans-affairs awarding activity that USAspending coded to Michigan. Correlation is not causation: Michigan did not “cause” $12,180,922,959.50 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 036 × MI only. Veterans medical care, benefits, construction, and related instruments can all sit under awarding agency 036. The packet does not split VBA, VHA, or NCA.

Michigan as place of performance (MI)

Michigan on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to Michigan residents. Awards can list MI while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged Ohio, Indiana, or Wisconsin belong on those ties even when a Great Lakes story is the same. The Upper Peninsula and Lower Peninsula share one MI stamp. Place of performance is MI, not a county map.

Michigan federal spending shows how agency 036 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same geography. $12,180,922,959.50 is one column in that table, not the table. This packet does not split Michigan by county, metro, or congressional district. Awards that carry a different awarding-agency code stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to VA.

Obligations, not outlays

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $12,180,922,959.50 is that kind of sum for Department of Veterans Affairs inside Michigan 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.

Michigan’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 33,382-row VA cell leaves USAspending.gov. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $12,180,922,959.50 as given. Treat 33,382 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished.

How to cite VA in Michigan

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligated $12,180,922,959.50 on 33,382 awards coded to Michigan. Name Department of Veterans Affairs and Michigan together. Keep the obligation word. If Department of Veterans Affairs in Michigan has refreshed, quote the overlay over this snapshot. The pair is not a VA hospital census, not a veteran headcount, and not a claims-backlog score.

Keep Department of Veterans Affairs, Michigan, $12,180,922,959.50, and 33,382 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 parent without a Michigan filter. Do not add those parents to this cell. Sharing a state with VA does not mean campaign donations funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. This page reports one USAspending join.

Reading the VA–Michigan award mix

33,382 is a substantial action file: 33,382 rows against $12,180,922,959.50, with an implied mean of about $364,895. That mix is neither the thickest USDA-style action books nor the sparsest Energy-style files in this portfolio. It still does not publish a median, a program pie, or a unique-recipient count. Treat 33,382 as award records.

The overlay Department of Veterans Affairs in Michigan is the both-keys table. Michigan federal spending and Department of Veterans Affairs are parents. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Those hubs are not addends to $12,180,922,959.50.

Questions

How much VA spending is coded to Michigan?

USAspending.gov lists $12,180,922,959.50 in Department of Veterans Affairs obligations across 33,382 Michigan-coded awards. Agency 036 × MI is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Michigan’s complete federal ledger. Department of Veterans Affairs in Michigan is the live overlay for this pair. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $364,895, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does this total include every VA program in Michigan?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. Veterans medical care, benefits, construction, and related instruments can all sit under awarding agency 036. The packet does not split VBA, VHA, or NCA. $12,180,922,959.50 is the combined obligation sum for agency 036 inside Michigan coding. This page will not invent a program pie. Open Department of Veterans Affairs in Michigan to inspect award lines. 33,382 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $12,180,922,959.50 cash already paid in Michigan?

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 $12,180,922,959.50 as checks already cleared in Michigan confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 33,382 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live VA–Michigan table?

Department of Veterans Affairs in Michigan is the overlay. Michigan 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 $12,180,922,959.50. Place of performance is MI, not a county map. Obligations are not outlays.