Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in Missouri

What the VA–Missouri join is

Awarding agency 036 and place-of-performance state MO meet here. $11,212,012,660.07 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 Missouri, 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. 37,775 is a substantial action file: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Dividing $11,212,012,660.07 by 37,775 yields about $296,810 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 Missouri’s 036 cell as a synonym for every VA account.

Open Department of Veterans Affairs in Missouri for the live filtered table, Missouri federal spending for every awarding agency in the state extract, Department of Veterans Affairs for agency 036 without a Missouri filter, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $11,212,012,660.07.

Awarding agency 036 as the VA side

USAspending labels awarding agency 036 as Department of Veterans Affairs. That code produced $11,212,012,660.07 when crossed with Missouri place of performance. The agency-wide 036 hub does not require MO geography. The Missouri hub does not require VA. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 37,775 awards.

This page reports veterans-affairs awarding activity that USAspending coded to Missouri. Correlation is not causation: Missouri did not “cause” $11,212,012,660.07 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 036 × MO 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.

Missouri as place of performance (MO)

Missouri on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to Missouri residents. Awards can list MO while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, or Kentucky belong on those ties even when a Midwest or Mississippi River story is the same. St. Louis, Kansas City, and the rest of the counties share one MO stamp. Place of performance is MO, not a county map.

Missouri federal spending shows how agency 036 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same geography. $11,212,012,660.07 is one column in that table, not the table. This packet does not split Missouri 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. $11,212,012,660.07 is that kind of sum for Department of Veterans Affairs inside Missouri 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.

Missouri’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 37,775-row VA cell leaves USAspending.gov. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $11,212,012,660.07 as given. Treat 37,775 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 Missouri

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligated $11,212,012,660.07 on 37,775 awards coded to Missouri. Name Department of Veterans Affairs and Missouri together. Keep the obligation word. If Department of Veterans Affairs in Missouri 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, Missouri, $11,212,012,660.07, and 37,775 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 parent without a Missouri 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–Missouri award mix

37,775 is a substantial action file: 37,775 rows against $11,212,012,660.07, with an implied mean of about $296,810. 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 37,775 as award records.

The overlay Department of Veterans Affairs in Missouri is the both-keys table. Missouri federal spending and Department of Veterans Affairs are parents. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Those hubs are not addends to $11,212,012,660.07.

Questions

How much VA spending is coded to Missouri?

USAspending.gov lists $11,212,012,660.07 in Department of Veterans Affairs obligations across 37,775 Missouri-coded awards. Agency 036 × MO is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Missouri’s complete federal ledger. Department of Veterans Affairs in Missouri is the live overlay for this pair. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $296,810, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does this total include every VA program in Missouri?

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. $11,212,012,660.07 is the combined obligation sum for agency 036 inside Missouri coding. This page will not invent a program pie. Open Department of Veterans Affairs in Missouri to inspect award lines. 37,775 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $11,212,012,660.07 cash already paid in Missouri?

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 $11,212,012,660.07 as checks already cleared in Missouri confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 37,775 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live VA–Missouri table?

Department of Veterans Affairs in Missouri is the overlay. Missouri 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 $11,212,012,660.07. Place of performance is MO, not a county map. Obligations are not outlays.