Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in West Virginia (agency 036)

What the Veterans Affairs–West Virginia join is

Awarding agency 036 and place-of-performance state WV meet here. $4,816,945,941 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Veterans Affairs’s nationwide budget, not West Virginia’s entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. VA medical-center folklore and statewide clinic stories may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a patient census.

18,396 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — tens of thousands of award actions behind a multi-billion obligation total. A long row list can mix small supply actions with larger instruments. The join does not rank West Virginia against other states and does not name hospitals inside the extract.

Open Department of Veterans Affairs in West Virginia for the filtered table, West Virginia federal spending for the next hub, Department of Veterans Affairs for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

A long VA award list under one West Virginia filter

Dividing $4,816,945,941 by 18,396 yields about $261,847 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical medical-center contract. Repeat awards and modifications still add rows; the listed count is not a unique-recipient census and not a count of veterans served. Facility names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars.

Va medical-center folklore and statewide clinic stories is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Agency names and recipient rows live on the overlay table, not in this narrative’s extra columns.

Agency 036 without a West Virginia overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Department of Veterans Affairs page aggregates 036 without requiring WV geography. The West Virginia federal spending page aggregates all agencies with West Virginia place of performance. Only Department of Veterans Affairs in West Virginia applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 18,396 awards and $4,816,945,941.

Place of performance in West Virginia is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list WV while later work occurs in Virginia or Ohio. VA awards coded to those states do not sit in this total even if the vendor’s mailroom is in Charleston. This packet does not split Huntington from Martinsburg or Beckley.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $4,816,945,941 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in West Virginia over-reads the field.

Award count 18,396 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the West Virginia–VA overlay. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

What this pair does not prove

A large VA total in West Virginia does not mean the agency caused West Virginia’s veteran mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between veteran geography and VA awards is expected; it is not a finding about care quality or waste.

Keep $4,816,945,941 labeled as agency 036 obligations with West Virginia place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. An agency name that appears near a donor occupation is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline into USAspending.

How to cite the West Virginia–VA pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 036 (Department of Veterans Affairs), West Virginia place of performance, $4,816,945,941 in obligations, and 18,396 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $4,816,945,941 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $261,847 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical medical-center contract.

Department of Veterans Affairs in West Virginia, West Virginia federal spending, Department of Veterans Affairs, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $4,816,945,941 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Huntington-versus-Martinsburg folklore is not a metro split in this packet. A long award list is still a record count, including modifications. Unique recipients are not published here. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has Veterans Affairs obligated in West Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $4,816,945,941 in obligations for awarding agency 036 with West Virginia place of performance, covering 18,396 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Veterans Affairs’s nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Does this total include every West Virginia VA hospital?

The extract lists 18,396 award actions totaling $4,816,945,941. Average obligation per award is about $261,847, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical medical-center contract. Unique recipients are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is this a Huntington-only VA total?

No. $4,816,945,941 and 18,396 awards are statewide West Virginia place of performance. This packet does not split Huntington from Martinsburg or Beckley. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live VA–West Virginia table?

Department of Veterans Affairs in West Virginia is the overlay. West Virginia federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of Veterans Affairs shows agency 036 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.