Glassbox VA · geography · FY2012

New York

GDX reports $4.8B of VA expenditures for New York in FY2012, across all categories. In the 4 categories that can be compared like-for-like, GDX reports $2.3B and USAspending shows $2.3B of obligations (101.4%). 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 New York, FY2012
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	$1.7B	$1.7B	100.0%	100.0%–100.0%	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	$414M	$414M	100.0%	100.0%–100.0%	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	$92.7M	$89.0M	95.9%	64.0%–120.8%	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	$34.5M	$70.3M	203.9%	4.9%–2528%	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	$2.4B	—	—	—	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	$126M	—	—	—	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 · FY2012

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

Each pair is scaled to its own larger value.

Compensation & Pension100.0%
$1.7B
$1.7B
Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment100.0%
$414M
$414M
Insurance & Indemnities95.9%
$92.7M
$89.0M
Construction203.9%
$34.5M
$70.3M

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 · 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 New York).

Assistance listings

Obligations mapped into compared categories

VETERANS COMPENSATION FOR SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY
64.109 · Compensation & Pension · 742 rows
$1.4B
POST-9/11 VETERANS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE
64.028 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 742 rows
$351M
VETERANS DEPENDENCY AND INDEMNITY COMPENSATION FOR SERVICE-CONNECTED DEATH
64.110 · Compensation & Pension · 627 rows
$156M
PENSION FOR NON-SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY FOR VETERANS
64.104 · Compensation & Pension · 722 rows
$117M
LIFE INSURANCE FOR VETERANS - DIRECT PAYMENTS FOR INSURANCE
64.031 · Insurance & Indemnities · 744 rows
$89.0M
PENSION TO VETERANS SURVIVING SPOUSES, AND CHILDREN
64.105 · Compensation & Pension · 710 rows
$51.1M
VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION FOR DISABLED VETERANS
64.116 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 654 rows
$26.7M
ALL-VOLUNTEER FORCE EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE
64.124 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 727 rows
$18.7M
SURVIVORS AND DEPENDENTS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE
64.117 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 672 rows
$10.9M
GRANTS TO STATES FOR CONSTRUCTION OF STATE HOME FACILITIES
64.005 · Construction · 2 rows
$9.9M
MONTGOMERY GI BILL SELECTED RESERVE; RESERVE EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
64.032 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 670 rows
$4.8M
AUTOMOBILES AND ADAPTIVE EQUIPMENT FOR CERTAIN DISABLED VETERANS AND MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES
64.100 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 150 rows
$2.4M
BURIAL EXPENSES ALLOWANCE FOR VETERANS
64.101 · Compensation & Pension · 225 rows
$564K
POST-VIETNAM ERA VETERANS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE
64.120 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 29 rows
$23K
VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND REHABILITATION FOR VIETNAM VETERANS' CHILDREN WITH SPINA BIFIDA OR OTHER COVERED BIRTH DEFECTS
64.128 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 1 rows
$5K

Construction contractors

PSC Y contracts performed in this state

CONCENTRIC GROUP, LLC
21 awards · largest action →
$7.0M
REGIMENT CONSTRUCTION CORP
6 awards · largest action →
$6.1M
E.B. GALAXY CONSTRUCTION INC.
3 awards · largest action →
$4.8M
AM BUILD COMPANY LLC
1 award · largest action →
$4.8M
U.S. INNOVATIVE CONSTRUCTION, LLC
4 awards · largest action →
$3.7M
PRIMARY COLORS CONTRACTING INC.
8 awards · largest action →
$3.4M
IRON SWORD ENTERPRISES, LLC
6 awards · largest action →
$3.2M
INNOVATIVE SUPPORT SOLUTIONS, INC.
1 award · largest action →
$3.0M
U.S. VETERANS CONSTRUCTION & MANAGEMENT CORP.
6 awards · largest action →
$3.0M
WELCH CONSTRUCTION INC.
8 awards · largest action →
$2.6M

Awarding offices (construction)

Office that recorded the obligation

242-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 02
71 awards
$26.1M
243-NETWORK CONTRACTING OFFICE 03
75 awards
$25.2M
PCAC NATIONAL ENERGY BUSINESS CENTER
8 awards
$5.3M
OFFICE OF CONSTRUCTION & FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
4 awards
$3.6M
NATIONAL CEMETERY ADMINISTRATION
2 awards
$85K
VBA FIELD CONTRACTING
4 awards
$76K

Pattern · geographic reconciliation variance

Observations for New York, all years

Every year in which a compared category for New York 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.

Category	GDX expenditure	How GDX places it	Why not compared
Medical Care	$2.4B	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	$126M	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 918,093 and 231,781 unique VA patients for New York. 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 FY2012 · USAspending.gov (VA, agency 036)