Glassbox VA · geography · FY2012

Minnesota

GDX reports $2.0B of VA expenditures for Minnesota in FY2012, across all categories. In the 4 categories that can be compared like-for-like, GDX reports $1.0B and USAspending shows $1.1B of obligations (103.8%). Every compared category is within the tolerance band set by all states this year.

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Category comparison · FY2012

GDX expenditure, USAspending obligations, coverage ratio

Category comparison for Minnesota, FY2012
CategoryGDX expenditureUSAspending obligationsCoverage ratioBand (all states)StatusStructural explanation
Compensation & Pension
GDX source: USAspending.gov (plus FMS for certain C&P items), per the GDX data guide
$864M$864M100.0%100.0%–100.0%Within toleranceVA 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
$134M$134M100.0%100.0%–100.0%Within toleranceVA 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
$31.1M$31.5M101.3%64.0%–120.8%Within toleranceInsurance 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
$3.1M$41.6M1325%4.9%–2528%Within toleranceConstruction is obligated up front and spent over several years; single-year ratios swing with project phasing.
Medical Care
GDX source: VHA Allocation Resource Center (ARC) and FMS
$865M———Not comparableMost 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
$81.5M———Not comparableMostly 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 comparableUSAspending 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 · FY2012

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

Each pair is scaled to its own larger value.

  1. Compensation & Pension100.0%
  2. Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment100.0%
  3. Insurance & Indemnities101.3%
  4. Construction1325%

Multi-year trend, compared categories

Sum of the categories compared in each year

$0$643M$1.3B$1.9B$2.6B1213141516171819202122232425FY2012 GDX $1.0BFY2012 USAspending $1.1BFY2013 GDX $1.2BFY2013 USAspending $1.2BFY2014 GDX $1.3BFY2014 USAspending $1.4BFY2015 GDX $1.3BFY2015 USAspending $1.3BFY2016 GDX $1.4BFY2016 USAspending $1.6BFY2017 GDX $1.4BFY2017 USAspending $1.5BFY2018 GDX $1.3BFY2018 USAspending $1.3BFY2019 GDX $1.5BFY2019 USAspending $1.5BFY2020 GDX $1.5BFY2020 USAspending $1.6BFY2021 GDX $1.6BFY2021 USAspending $1.7BFY2022 GDX $1.8BFY2022 USAspending $2.0BFY2023 GDX $1.9BFY2023 USAspending $1.9BFY2024 GDX $2.0BFY2024 USAspending $2.0BFY2025 GDX $2.4BFY2025 USAspending $2.4B
GDX expenditureUSAspending obligationsBreaks mark years not compared.
What makes up the USAspending side · FY2012

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 Minnesota).

Assistance listings

Obligations mapped into compared categories

  • VETERANS COMPENSATION FOR SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY
    64.109 · Compensation & Pension · 1,040 rows
    $748M
  • POST-9/11 VETERANS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE
    64.028 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 984 rows
    $91.1M
  • VETERANS DEPENDENCY AND INDEMNITY COMPENSATION FOR SERVICE-CONNECTED DEATH
    64.110 · Compensation & Pension · 753 rows
    $66.3M
  • PENSION FOR NON-SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY FOR VETERANS
    64.104 · Compensation & Pension · 905 rows
    $37.7M
  • LIFE INSURANCE FOR VETERANS - DIRECT PAYMENTS FOR INSURANCE
    64.031 · Insurance & Indemnities · 1,012 rows
    $31.5M
  • GRANTS TO STATES FOR CONSTRUCTION OF STATE HOME FACILITIES
    64.005 · Construction · 3 rows
    $22.8M
  • VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION FOR DISABLED VETERANS
    64.116 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 709 rows
    $12.6M
  • PENSION TO VETERANS SURVIVING SPOUSES, AND CHILDREN
    64.105 · Compensation & Pension · 827 rows
    $11.1M
  • AUTOMOBILES AND ADAPTIVE EQUIPMENT FOR CERTAIN DISABLED VETERANS AND MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES
    64.100 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 107 rows
    $7.1M
  • SURVIVORS AND DEPENDENTS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE
    64.117 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 756 rows
    $6.5M
  • ALL-VOLUNTEER FORCE EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE
    64.124 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 808 rows
    $6.3M
  • SPECIALLY ADAPTED HOUSING FOR DISABLED VETERANS
    64.106 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 13 rows
    $5.1M
  • MONTGOMERY GI BILL SELECTED RESERVE; RESERVE EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
    64.032 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 865 rows
    $4.9M
  • STATE CEMETERY GRANTS
    64.203 · Construction · 1 rows
    $1.4M
  • BURIAL EXPENSES ALLOWANCE FOR VETERANS
    64.101 · Compensation & Pension · 130 rows
    $221K
  • POST-VIETNAM ERA VETERANS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE
    64.120 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 2 rows
    $2K

Construction contractors

PSC Y contracts performed in this state

Awarding offices (construction)

Office that recorded the obligation

  • 656-ST CLOUD VA MEDICAL CENTER
    31 awards
    $16.7M
  • NATIONAL CEMETERY ADMINISTRATION
    4 awards
    $579K
  • 618-MINNEAPOLIS VA MEDICAL CENTER
    3 awards
    $96K
  • PCAC NATIONAL ENERGY BUSINESS CENTER
    2 awards
    $2K
Pattern · geographic reconciliation variance

Observations for Minnesota, all years

Every year in which a compared category for Minnesota sat outside the tolerance band. Evidence strength follows the site-wide formula; the note is the most applicable benign explanation.
No variances outside tolerance in any compared year.

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.
CategoryGDX expenditureHow GDX places itWhy not compared
Medical Care$865MPatient'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$81.5MWhere 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$0Through 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 369,295 and 112,407 unique VA patients for Minnesota. Per-veteran figures are deliberately not shown: VA advises against dividing these categories by veteran population.

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 FY2012 · USAspending.gov (VA, agency 036)