Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in Vermont

VA awards tagged to Vermont

Department of Veterans Affairs as awarding agency, Vermont as place-of-performance: 4,995 records summing to $918,927,678.08. A Department of Veterans Affairs award coded outside VT is out. An award in Vermont from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Vermont (VT) excludes New York, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. A Hanover-coded award is New Hampshire even if the river story sounds similar.

Four thousand nine hundred ninety-five awards is a high-count VA file. Recurring instruments can thicken a list without each row being a new unique veterans. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 4,995 as 4,995 unique unique veterans, unique clinics, or a census of hospital beds. The overlay Department of Veterans Affairs in Vermont is the both-keys table. Vermont federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Veterans Affairs is the agency book without an VT filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Burlington, Montpelier, and Rutland share one VT stamp. VHA, VBA, and other VA components can share awarding-agency 036 without a published bureau pie. Correlation is not causation: Vermont did not cause $918,927,678.08 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 036 × VT only.

4,995 rows are not 4,995 veterans

$918,927,678.08 does not measure unique veterans, unique clinics, or a census of hospital beds. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 036 and an VT place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 4,995 awards as a census of unique veterans, unique clinics, or a census of hospital beds. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Vermont federal spending or Department of Veterans Affairs matched $918,927,678.08 and 4,995, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighbor-state VA joins are other pairs, not addends. Dividing $918,927,678.08 by 4,995 yields about $183,969.51 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical VA line and not a published median.

Vermont, not a Champlain VA rollup

Place of performance VT is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Vermont (VT) excludes New York, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. A Hanover-coded award is New Hampshire even if the river story sounds similar. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Burlington, Montpelier, and Rutland share one VT stamp. This packet does not split $918,927,678.08 by city, county, or named facility. 4,995 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

A high-count VA file, still obligations

Even a thick file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $918,927,678.08 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Vermont confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Vermont's own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 4,995-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 $918,927,678.08.

What this pair does not prove

A large VA total in Vermont does not mean the agency caused Vermont's fiscal mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Keep $918,927,678.08 labeled as agency 036 obligations with Vermont place of performance. Neighbor VA cells among New York, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts are separate joins. This page does not rank Vermont as a winner or loser.

Recipient names are unpublished in this packet. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to explain $918,927,678.08. Place-of-performance VT can differ from a vendor mailroom. A Hanover-coded award is New Hampshire even if the river story sounds similar. A later ingest can restate $918,927,678.08 and 4,995 without changing the join definition: awarding agency 036 crossed with Vermont.

Citing VA in Vermont

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligated $918,927,678.08 on 4,995 awards coded to Vermont. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as unique veterans, unique clinics, or a census of hospital beds.

Prefer Department of Veterans Affairs in Vermont if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Vermont federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to VT. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 parent without the VT filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $918,927,678.08.

A usable footnote names Department of Veterans Affairs, Vermont, $918,927,678.08, and 4,995. The implied mean near $183,969.51 is $918,927,678.08 divided by 4,995. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset; they do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has the Department of Veterans Affairs obligated in Vermont?

USAspending.gov records $918,927,678.08 across 4,995 awards with awarding agency 036 and a Vermont tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unique veterans, unique clinics, or a census of hospital beds. Department of Veterans Affairs in Vermont is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $918,927,678.08.

Is $918,927,678.08 a measure of unique veterans?

No. The packet publishes $918,927,678.08 and 4,995 awards for agency 036 inside VT coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays. The implied mean is about $183,969.51, a ratio of two packet facts.

Is this a Burlington-only VA total?

No. $918,927,678.08 and 4,995 awards are statewide Vermont place of performance. Burlington, Montpelier, and Rutland share one VT stamp. This packet does not publish a city split. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live VA–Vermont table?

Department of Veterans Affairs in Vermont is the overlay. Vermont 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 $918,927,678.08. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.