Montana
GDX reports $1.7B of VA expenditures for Montana in FY2025, across all categories. In the 4 categories that can be compared like-for-like, GDX reports $904M and USAspending shows $900M of obligations (99.5%). Every compared category is within the tolerance band set by all states this year.
GDX expenditure, USAspending obligations, coverage ratio
| Category | GDX expenditure | USAspending obligations | Coverage ratio | Band (all states) | Status | Structural explanation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Compensation & Pension GDX source: VBA Office of Performance Analysis & Integrity (PA&I), county-level payment data | $852M | $852M | 100.0% | 100.0%–100.0% | Within tolerance | Within the band set by all states this year. |
Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment GDX source: VBA PA&I, county-level payment data | $44.2M | $44.4M | 100.4% | 99.8%–100.6% | Within tolerance | 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: Insurance Service Office of Budget and Oversight (payment records with SSN/address) | $1.9M | $2.0M | 103.2% | 98.9%–108.6% | 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 Office of Construction & Facilities Management (CFM), by station | $5.8M | $1.2M | 21.1% | 3.0%–5675% | Within tolerance | Construction 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 | $841M | — | — | — | 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. |
Loan Guaranty GDX source: FMS (through FY2023); VBA PA&I (FY2024+) | $1.0M | — | — | — | 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. |
Memorial Benefits GDX source: NCA Office of Finance Service; VBA PA&I | $3.9M | — | — | — | Not comparable | Mostly National Cemetery Administration operating cost with no award record; only the burial-allowance and grant pieces appear on USAspending. |
Compared categories · FY2025
Grey = GDX expenditure · teal = USAspending obligations (amber when outside tolerance)
Each pair is scaled to its own larger value.
- Compensation & Pension100.0%$852M$852M
- Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment100.4%$44.2M$44.4M
- Insurance & Indemnities103.2%$1.9M$2.0M
- Construction21.1%$5.8M$1.2M
Multi-year trend, compared categories
Sum of the categories compared in each year
Programs, recipients and offices
Assistance listings
Obligations mapped into compared categories
- VETERANS COMPENSATION FOR SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY64.109 · Compensation & Pension · 647 rows$799M
- VETERANS DEPENDENCY AND INDEMNITY COMPENSATION FOR SERVICE-CONNECTED DEATH64.110 · Compensation & Pension · 515 rows$44.0M
- POST-9/11 VETERANS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE64.028 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 557 rows$29.6M
- PENSION FOR NON-SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY FOR VETERANS64.104 · Compensation & Pension · 447 rows$7.2M
- SURVIVORS AND DEPENDENTS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE64.117 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 394 rows$6.9M
- VETERAN READINESS AND EMPLOYMENT64.116 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 384 rows$5.9M
- LIFE INSURANCE FOR VETERANS - DIRECT PAYMENTS FOR INSURANCE64.031 · Insurance & Indemnities · 319 rows$2.0M
- PENSION TO VETERANS SURVIVING SPOUSES, AND CHILDREN64.105 · Compensation & Pension · 296 rows$1.6M
- MONTGOMERY GI BILL SELECTED RESERVE64.032 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 236 rows$681K
- SPECIALLY ADAPTED HOUSING FOR DISABLED VETERANS64.106 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 17 rows$679K
- ALL-VOLUNTEER FORCE EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE64.124 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 116 rows$541K
- AUTOMOBILES AND ADAPTIVE EQUIPMENT FOR CERTAIN DISABLED VETERANS AND MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES64.100 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 5 rows$108K
- MONTHLY ALLOWANCE FOR CHILDREN OF VIETNAM VETERANS BORN WITH SPINA BIFIDA64.127 · Compensation & Pension · 35 rows$60K
- POST-VIETNAM ERA VETERANS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE64.120 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 6 rows$2K
Construction contractors
PSC Y contracts performed in this state
- GCH CONSTRUCTION COMPANY1 award · largest action →$1.2M
- COPPER CREEK, LLC1 award · largest action →$29K
Awarding offices (construction)
Office that recorded the obligation
- NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 19 (36C259)2 awards$1.1M
- PCAC (36C776)1 awards$132K
Observations for Montana, all years
- Montana — Construction, FY2021low · strength 0.68
GDX reports $7.9M of Construction expenditures for Montana in FY2021; USAspending shows $98K of obligations under the same category definitions (1.3% 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.
- Montana — Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment, FY2020low · strength 0.74
GDX reports $39.3M of Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment expenditures for Montana in FY2020; USAspending shows $42.2M of obligations under the same category definitions (107.4% of GDX). The ratio sits above the tolerance band set by 53 compared states that year (99.5% to 103.9%; median 101.7%). 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.
- Montana — Construction, FY2018low · strength 0.49
GDX reports $2.7M of Construction expenditures for Montana in FY2018; USAspending shows $36K of obligations under the same category definitions (1.4% of GDX). The ratio sits below the tolerance band set by 45 compared states that year (4.6% to 2280%; median 143.7%). 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.
Categories GDX reports that are not compared
| Category | GDX expenditure | How GDX places it | Why not compared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Care | $841M | 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. |
| Loan Guaranty | $1.0M | 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. |
| Memorial Benefits | $3.9M | Place of performance (NCA) and county of the beneficiary (VBA burial). | Mostly National Cemetery Administration operating cost with no award record; only the burial-allowance and grant pieces appear on USAspending. |
- 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.