Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in Oklahoma

What the VA–Oklahoma join is

Awarding agency 036 and place-of-performance state OK meet here. $11,511,970,924.87 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 Oklahoma, 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. 25,020 is a substantial action file: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Dividing $11,511,970,924.87 by 25,020 yields about $460,111 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 Oklahoma’s 036 cell as a synonym for every VA account.

Open Department of Veterans Affairs in Oklahoma for the live filtered table, Oklahoma federal spending for every awarding agency in the state extract, Department of Veterans Affairs for agency 036 without a Oklahoma filter, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $11,511,970,924.87.

Awarding agency 036 as the VA side

USAspending labels awarding agency 036 as Department of Veterans Affairs. That code produced $11,511,970,924.87 when crossed with Oklahoma place of performance. The agency-wide 036 hub does not require OK geography. The Oklahoma hub does not require VA. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 25,020 awards.

This page reports veterans-affairs awarding activity that USAspending coded to Oklahoma. Correlation is not causation: Oklahoma did not “cause” $11,511,970,924.87 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 036 × OK 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.

Oklahoma as place of performance (OK)

Oklahoma on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to Oklahoma residents. Awards can list OK while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, New Mexico, or Colorado belong on those ties even when a Southern Plains story is the same. Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and the rest of the counties share one OK stamp. Place of performance is OK, not a county map.

Oklahoma federal spending shows how agency 036 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same geography. $11,511,970,924.87 is one column in that table, not the table. This packet does not split Oklahoma 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. $11,511,970,924.87 is that kind of sum for Department of Veterans Affairs inside Oklahoma 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.

Oklahoma’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 25,020-row VA cell leaves USAspending.gov. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $11,511,970,924.87 as given. Treat 25,020 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 Oklahoma

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligated $11,511,970,924.87 on 25,020 awards coded to Oklahoma. Name Department of Veterans Affairs and Oklahoma together. Keep the obligation word. If Department of Veterans Affairs in Oklahoma 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, Oklahoma, $11,511,970,924.87, and 25,020 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 parent without a Oklahoma 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–Oklahoma award mix

25,020 is a substantial action file: 25,020 rows against $11,511,970,924.87, with an implied mean of about $460,111. 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 25,020 as award records.

The overlay Department of Veterans Affairs in Oklahoma is the both-keys table. Oklahoma federal spending and Department of Veterans Affairs are parents. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Those hubs are not addends to $11,511,970,924.87.

Questions

How much VA spending is coded to Oklahoma?

USAspending.gov lists $11,511,970,924.87 in Department of Veterans Affairs obligations across 25,020 Oklahoma-coded awards. Agency 036 × OK is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Oklahoma’s complete federal ledger. Department of Veterans Affairs in Oklahoma is the live overlay for this pair. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $460,111, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does this total include every VA program in Oklahoma?

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. $11,511,970,924.87 is the combined obligation sum for agency 036 inside Oklahoma coding. This page will not invent a program pie. Open Department of Veterans Affairs in Oklahoma to inspect award lines. 25,020 remains an action count, not a program count.

Is $11,511,970,924.87 cash already paid in Oklahoma?

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 $11,511,970,924.87 as checks already cleared in Oklahoma confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 25,020 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live VA–Oklahoma table?

Department of Veterans Affairs in Oklahoma is the overlay. Oklahoma 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 $11,511,970,924.87. Place of performance is OK, not a county map. Obligations are not outlays.