Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in Wyoming

A high-count VA file on Wyoming

Department of Veterans Affairs as awarding agency, Wyoming as place-of-performance: 7,134 records summing to $1,388,853,816.09. A Department of Veterans Affairs award coded outside WY is out. An award in Wyoming from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Wyoming (WY) excludes Colorado, Montana, Idaho, Utah, South Dakota, and Nebraska. Place of performance is WY, not a Rocky Mountain catchment.

Seven thousand one hundred thirty-four records is a thick VA action file: many more rows than a thin Energy cell, still a record count rather than unique veterans. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 7,134 as 7,134 unique enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. The overlay Department of Veterans Affairs in Wyoming is the both-keys table. Wyoming federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Veterans Affairs is the agency book without a WY filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Cheyenne is unpublished as a metro share of $1,388,853,816.09. The join stays statewide. Correlation is not causation: Wyoming did not cause $1,388,853,816.09 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 036 × WY only.

Award rows are not unique veterans

$1,388,853,816.09 does not measure enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 036 and a WY place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 7,134 awards as a census of enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Wyoming federal spending or Department of Veterans Affairs matched $1,388,853,816.09 and 7,134, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Colorado, Montana, and Nebraska VA joins are other pairs, not addends.

Wyoming statewide, not a Cheyenne-versus-Casper split

Place of performance WY is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Wyoming (WY) excludes Colorado, Montana, Idaho, Utah, South Dakota, and Nebraska. Place of performance is WY, not a Rocky Mountain catchment. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Cheyenne is unpublished as a metro share of $1,388,853,816.09. The join stays statewide. This packet does not split $1,388,853,816.09 by city, county, or named facility. 7,134 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Obligations ahead of clinic cash already paid

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,388,853,816.09 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Wyoming confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Wyoming’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 7,134-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 $1,388,853,816.09.

Citing the VA–Wyoming pair

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligated $1,388,853,816.09 on 7,134 awards coded to Wyoming. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings.

Prefer Department of Veterans Affairs in Wyoming if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Wyoming federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to WY. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 parent without the WY filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,388,853,816.09.

A usable footnote names Department of Veterans Affairs, Wyoming, $1,388,853,816.09, and 7,134. The compact headline $1.39 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $194,681 is $1,388,853,816.09 divided by 7,134. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

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

USAspending.gov records $1,388,853,816.09 across 7,134 awards with awarding agency 036 and a Wyoming tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. Department of Veterans Affairs in Wyoming is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,388,853,816.09.

Is $1,388,853,816.09 a measure of enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings?

No. The packet publishes $1,388,853,816.09 and 7,134 awards for agency 036 inside WY 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 7,134 awards?

That is the award-record count for 036 × WY. Combined with $1,388,853,816.09, the average is about $194,681. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 7,134 is not unique enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Veterans Affairs in Wyoming is the overlay. Wyoming 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 $1,388,853,816.09. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.