Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in Rhode Island

VA awards tagged to Rhode Island

Department of Veterans Affairs as awarding agency, Rhode Island as place-of-performance: 2,979 records summing to $1,547,163,938.43. A Department of Veterans Affairs award coded outside RI is out. An award in Rhode Island from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Rhode Island (RI) excludes Massachusetts and Connecticut. A Boston-coded award is Massachusetts even if the veteran lives in Providence.

Two thousand nine hundred seventy-nine awards is a moderate VA action file for a small state. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 2,979 as 2,979 unique veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings. The overlay Department of Veterans Affairs in Rhode Island is the both-keys table. Rhode Island federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Veterans Affairs is the agency book without an RI filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Health care, benefits, and construction can share 036. This packet does not name a medical center or a VISN inside $1,547,163,938.43. Correlation is not causation: Rhode Island did not cause $1,547,163,938.43 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 036 × RI only.

Award rows are not unique veterans

$1,547,163,938.43 does not measure veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 036 and an RI place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 2,979 awards as a census of veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Rhode Island federal spending or Department of Veterans Affairs matched $1,547,163,938.43 and 2,979, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Massachusetts and Connecticut VA joins are other pairs, not addends.

Rhode Island, not a Providence VA catchment

Place of performance RI is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Rhode Island (RI) excludes Massachusetts and Connecticut. A Boston-coded award is Massachusetts even if the veteran lives in Providence. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Health care, benefits, and construction can share 036. This packet does not name a medical center or a VISN inside $1,547,163,938.43. This packet does not split $1,547,163,938.43 by city, county, or named facility. 2,979 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Obligations ahead of clinic cash

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,547,163,938.43 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Rhode Island confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Rhode Island’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 2,979-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $1,547,163,938.43.

Citing the VA–Rhode Island pair

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligated $1,547,163,938.43 on 2,979 awards coded to Rhode Island. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings.

Prefer Department of Veterans Affairs in Rhode Island if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Rhode Island federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to RI. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 parent without the RI filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,547,163,938.43.

A usable footnote names Department of Veterans Affairs, Rhode Island, $1,547,163,938.43, and 2,979. The compact headline $1.55 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $519,357 is $1,547,163,938.43 divided by 2,979. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Veterans Affairs obligated in Rhode Island?

USAspending.gov records $1,547,163,938.43 across 2,979 awards with awarding agency 036 and a Rhode Island tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings. Department of Veterans Affairs in Rhode Island is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,547,163,938.43.

Is $1,547,163,938.43 a measure of veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings?

No. The packet publishes $1,547,163,938.43 and 2,979 awards for agency 036 inside RI coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this VA file have 2,979 awards?

That is the award-record count for 036 × RI. Combined with $1,547,163,938.43, the average is about $519,357. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 2,979 is not unique veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live VA–Rhode Island table?

Department of Veterans Affairs in Rhode Island is the overlay. Rhode Island federal spending and Department of Veterans Affairs are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $1,547,163,938.43. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays. Place of performance is RI.