Glassbox VA · geography · FY2018

Delaware

GDX reports $477M of VA expenditures for Delaware in FY2018, across all categories. In the 3 categories that can be compared like-for-like, GDX reports $277M and USAspending shows $276M of obligations (99.7%). Every compared category is within the tolerance band set by all states this year.

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Category comparison · FY2018

GDX expenditure, USAspending obligations, coverage ratio

Category comparison for Delaware, FY2018
Category	GDX expenditure	USAspending obligations	Coverage ratio	Band (all states)	Status	Structural explanation
Compensation & Pension GDX source: USAspending.gov (plus FMS for certain C&P items), per the GDX data guide	$235M	$235M	100.1%	99.4%–101.3%	Within tolerance	VA states this GDX figure was taken from USAspending.gov, so a gap points to reporting revisions or state assignment rather than an independent difference.
Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment GDX source: USAspending.gov (plus FMS for non-beneficiary items), per the GDX data guide	$36.6M	$37.0M	100.9%	92.8%–116.5%	Within tolerance	VA states this GDX figure was taken from USAspending.gov, so a gap points to reporting revisions or state assignment rather than an independent difference. Education payments to schools can follow the school's location on one side and the student's residence on the other.
Insurance & Indemnities GDX source: VA Regional Office & Insurance Center (RO&IC), Philadelphia	$5.1M	$3.9M	75.8%	63.7%–103.4%	Within tolerance	Insurance payees are located by linked residence records in GDX (FY2024+ partly by ZIP code), by payee address on USAspending.
Construction GDX source: VA Financial Management System (FMS) / iFAMS	$601K	$613K	—	4.6%–2280%	Too small to compare	GDX reports less than $1M here; ratios on small amounts reflect rounding, not coverage.
Medical Care GDX source: VHA Allocation Resource Center (ARC) and FMS	$196M	—	—	—	Not comparable	Most of VA medical spending is the payroll and operating cost of VA hospitals and clinics, which is not an award and never appears on USAspending. VHA's cost-of-care assistance listings (64.009–64.050) are reported inconsistently from year to year, and contract place of performance follows the facility rather than the patient's home.
General Operating Expenses GDX source: FMS / iFAMS	$3.5M	—	—	—	Not comparable	Mostly salaries and overhead with no award record; the contract share that does exist is booked to the buying office, not to a beneficiary geography.
Loan Guaranty GDX source: FMS (through FY2023); VBA PA&I (FY2024+)	$0	—	—	—	Not comparable	USAspending records guaranteed loans by face value with zero federal obligation per loan; the budgetary cost (subsidy and claims) is not in the award file.

Compared categories · FY2018

Grey = GDX expenditure · teal = USAspending obligations (amber when outside tolerance)

Each pair is scaled to its own larger value.

Compensation & Pension100.1%
$235M
$235M
Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment100.9%
$36.6M
$37.0M
Insurance & Indemnities75.8%
$5.1M
$3.9M

Multi-year trend, compared categories

Sum of the categories compared in each year

GDX expenditureUSAspending obligationsBreaks mark years not compared.

What makes up the USAspending side · FY2018

Programs, recipients and offices

Benefit programs are reported to USAspending as county-level aggregate rows, not as named recipients, so they are listed by Assistance Listing. Construction is listed by contractor and awarding office (place of performance in Delaware).

Assistance listings

Obligations mapped into compared categories

VETERANS COMPENSATION FOR SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY
64.109 · Compensation & Pension · 36 rows
$208M
POST-9/11 VETERANS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE
64.028 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 36 rows
$31.8M
VETERANS DEPENDENCY AND INDEMNITY COMPENSATION FOR SERVICE-CONNECTED DEATH
64.110 · Compensation & Pension · 35 rows
$16.8M
PENSION FOR NON-SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY FOR VETERANS
64.104 · Compensation & Pension · 35 rows
$4.5M
LIFE INSURANCE FOR VETERANS - DIRECT PAYMENTS FOR INSURANCE
64.031 · Insurance & Indemnities · 137 rows
$3.9M
PENSION TO VETERANS SURVIVING SPOUSES, AND CHILDREN
64.105 · Compensation & Pension · 36 rows
$2.9M
BURIAL EXPENSES ALLOWANCE FOR VETERANS
64.101 · Compensation & Pension · 36 rows
$2.8M
VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION FOR DISABLED VETERANS
64.116 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 36 rows
$2.1M
SURVIVORS AND DEPENDENTS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE
64.117 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 36 rows
$1.4M
AUTOMOBILES AND ADAPTIVE EQUIPMENT FOR CERTAIN DISABLED VETERANS AND MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES
64.100 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 21 rows
$626K
SPECIALLY ADAPTED HOUSING FOR DISABLED VETERANS
64.106 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 15 rows
$533K
MONTGOMERY GI BILL SELECTED RESERVE; RESERVE EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
64.032 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 36 rows
$473K
ALL-VOLUNTEER FORCE EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE
64.124 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 36 rows
$92K

Construction contractors

PSC Y contracts performed in this state

GUARDIAN ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES CO INC
4 awards · largest action →
$355K
PATRIOT GOVERNMENT SERVICES, INC.
1 award · largest action →
$216K
3RD CONTRACTING CORPORATION
1 award · largest action →
$42K
VETERAN CONSTRUCTION AND UTILITY SERVICES INCORPORATED
1 award · largest action →
-$1

Awarding offices (construction)

Office that recorded the obligation

244-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 4 (36C244)
7 awards
$613K

Pattern · geographic reconciliation variance

Observations for Delaware, all years

Every year in which a compared category for Delaware sat outside the tolerance band. Evidence strength follows the site-wide formula; the note is the most applicable benign explanation.

Delaware — Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment, FY2022low · strength 0.79
GDX reports $22.1M of Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment expenditures for Delaware in FY2022; USAspending shows $24.9M of obligations under the same category definitions (112.8% of GDX). The ratio sits above the tolerance band set by 53 compared states that year (97.6% to 108.0%; median 102.8%). GDX figures are expenditures and USAspending figures are obligations; the difference is a variance to review, not a finding.
Benign explanation: For FY2012–FY2023 VA states that GDX Compensation & Pension and E&VRE (and FY2023 Insurance) were taken from USAspending.gov, so agreement is expected; a variance points to a later revision or a state-assignment difference.
Delaware — Construction, FY2021low · strength 0.43
GDX reports $7.6M of Construction expenditures for Delaware in FY2021; USAspending shows $320K of obligations under the same category definitions (4.2% of GDX). The ratio sits below the tolerance band set by 47 compared states that year (7.9% to 3651%; median 138.9%). GDX figures are expenditures and USAspending figures are obligations; the difference is a variance to review, not a finding.
Benign explanation: Construction and other multi-year awards are obligated up front and spent over several years: a state with a large new project shows USAspending well above GDX in the award year and below it later.

Pattern definition and thresholds: gdx-reconciliation-variance.

Context only

Categories GDX reports that are not compared

Shown so the state total is complete. These have no like-for-like USAspending counterpart; comparing them would report most of VA's own operating cost as a gap.

Category	GDX expenditure	How GDX places it	Why not compared
Medical Care	$196M	Patient's home residence, not the site of care (research is booked to the facility performing it).	Most of VA medical spending is the payroll and operating cost of VA hospitals and clinics, which is not an award and never appears on USAspending. VHA's cost-of-care assistance listings (64.009–64.050) are reported inconsistently from year to year, and contract place of performance follows the facility rather than the patient's home.
General Operating Expenses	$3.5M	Where the cost is booked in FMS/iFAMS — headquarters costs concentrate in the District of Columbia.	Mostly salaries and overhead with no award record; the contract share that does exist is booked to the buying office, not to a beneficiary geography.
Loan Guaranty	$0	Through FY2023: Travis County, TX (processing location). FY2024+: county of the loan.	USAspending records guaranteed loans by face value with zero federal obligation per loan; the budgetary cost (subsidy and claims) is not in the award file.

GDX also publishes an estimated veteran population of 70,798 and 16,905 unique VA patients for Delaware. Per-veteran figures are deliberately not shown: VA advises against dividing these categories by veteran population.

How this comparison is built

Like-for-like only: same state, same federal fiscal year (October–September), same category. USAspending programs are mapped to GDX categories by a published crosswalk.
Compared: Compensation & Pension, Education & VR&E, Insurance, and Construction (partly comparable). Not compared: Medical Care, General Operating Expenses, Loan Guaranty and Memorial Benefits — they are mostly VA payroll and operating cost, or are booked in ways that have no award counterpart.
GDX reports expenditures (money spent); USAspending reports obligations (commitments). A difference is listed as a variance to review only when the ratio sits outside the tolerance band derived from all states that year and exceeds 5 points and $1M.
For FY2012–FY2023 VA states that GDX Compensation & Pension and E&VRE were taken from USAspending.gov, so agreement in those years is expected rather than independent confirmation.

Full methodology, crosswalk and sources →

GDX expenditure: VA's estimate of money spent in the fiscal year, by state (an expenditure measure, closer to outlays than to obligations; VA notes it can differ from both), from VA's Geographic Distribution of VA Expenditures report.
USAspending obligations: Net obligations recorded on USAspending.gov in the same fiscal year (sum of every transaction's federal action obligation), for the programs mapped to the same GDX category.
Coverage ratio: USAspending ÷ GDX. 100% means the award record accounts for the same dollars VA reports as spent. Obligations and expenditures are different measures, so exact agreement is not expected.

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Source: VA NCVAS GDX FY2018 · USAspending.gov (VA, agency 036)