Puerto Rico
GDX reports $2.7B of VA expenditures for Puerto Rico in FY2025, across all categories. In the 4 categories that can be compared like-for-like, GDX reports $1.6B and USAspending shows $1.6B of obligations (98.9%). 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 | $1.5B | $1.5B | 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 | $74.6M | $74.6M | 100.1% | 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) | $1.3M | $1.3M | 102.5% | 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 | $32.0M | $14.9M | 46.5% | 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 | $1.1B | — | — | — | 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+) | -$386K | — | — | — | 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 | $18.0M | — | — | — | 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%$1.5B$1.5B
- Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment100.1%$74.6M$74.6M
- Insurance & Indemnities102.5%$1.3M$1.3M
- Construction46.5%$32.0M$14.9M
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 · 933 rows$1.3B
- VETERANS DEPENDENCY AND INDEMNITY COMPENSATION FOR SERVICE-CONNECTED DEATH64.110 · Compensation & Pension · 740 rows$79.3M
- PENSION FOR NON-SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY FOR VETERANS64.104 · Compensation & Pension · 794 rows$49.1M
- POST-9/11 VETERANS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE64.028 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 892 rows$39.3M
- PENSION TO VETERANS SURVIVING SPOUSES, AND CHILDREN64.105 · Compensation & Pension · 793 rows$29.6M
- SURVIVORS AND DEPENDENTS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE64.117 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 885 rows$24.9M
- VETERAN READINESS AND EMPLOYMENT64.116 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 780 rows$5.9M
- MONTGOMERY GI BILL SELECTED RESERVE64.032 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 803 rows$3.1M
- LIFE INSURANCE FOR VETERANS - DIRECT PAYMENTS FOR INSURANCE64.031 · Insurance & Indemnities · 356 rows$1.3M
- SPECIALLY ADAPTED HOUSING FOR DISABLED VETERANS64.106 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 15 rows$587K
- AUTOMOBILES AND ADAPTIVE EQUIPMENT FOR CERTAIN DISABLED VETERANS AND MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES64.100 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 26 rows$475K
- ALL-VOLUNTEER FORCE EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE64.124 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 156 rows$416K
- MONTHLY ALLOWANCE FOR CHILDREN OF VIETNAM VETERANS BORN WITH SPINA BIFIDA64.127 · Compensation & Pension · 84 rows$136K
- POST-VIETNAM ERA VETERANS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE64.120 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 11 rows$4K
- VETERAN RAPID RETRAINING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM64.130 · Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment · 1 rows$3K
Construction contractors
PSC Y contracts performed in this state
- $12.5M
- CARIBE TECNO CRL1 award · largest action →$1.3M
- VENERGY GROUP LLC3 awards · largest action →$600K
- WALSH PUERTO RICO, LLC1 award · largest action →$484K
- $20K
- $8K
Awarding offices (construction)
Office that recorded the obligation
- OFFICE OF CONSTRUCTION & FACILITIES MGMT (36C10F)3 awards$14.3M
- 248-NETWORK CONTRACT OFFICE 8 (36C248)6 awards$628K
Observations for Puerto Rico, all years
- Puerto Rico — Insurance & Indemnities, FY2019low · strength 0.65
GDX reports $3.1M of Insurance & Indemnities expenditures for Puerto Rico in FY2019; USAspending shows $1.8M of obligations under the same category definitions (57.6% of GDX). The ratio sits below the tolerance band set by 52 compared states that year (60.6% to 109.0%; median 82.1%). GDX figures are expenditures and USAspending figures are obligations; the difference is a variance to review, not a finding.
Benign explanation: The sources place dollars differently: GDX follows the beneficiary's residence or the project site; USAspending follows the reported place of performance or the recipient's address.
- Puerto Rico — Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment, FY2018low · strength 0.77
GDX reports $45.1M of Education & Vocational Rehabilitation/Employment expenditures for Puerto Rico in FY2018; USAspending shows $54.8M of obligations under the same category definitions (121.7% of GDX). The ratio sits above the tolerance band set by 53 compared states that year (92.8% to 116.5%; median 103.4%). 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.
- Puerto Rico — Insurance & Indemnities, FY2016low · strength 0.94
GDX reports $4.3M of Insurance & Indemnities expenditures for Puerto Rico in FY2016; USAspending shows $1.9M of obligations under the same category definitions (45.4% of GDX). The ratio sits below the tolerance band set by 52 compared states that year (61.4% to 106.3%; median 82.6%). GDX figures are expenditures and USAspending figures are obligations; the difference is a variance to review, not a finding.
Benign explanation: The sources place dollars differently: GDX follows the beneficiary's residence or the project site; USAspending follows the reported place of performance or the recipient's address.
- Puerto Rico — Insurance & Indemnities, FY2015low · strength 0.82
GDX reports $5.2M of Insurance & Indemnities expenditures for Puerto Rico in FY2015; USAspending shows $2.6M of obligations under the same category definitions (49.1% of GDX). The ratio sits below the tolerance band set by 52 compared states that year (58.1% to 111.7%; median 83.0%). GDX figures are expenditures and USAspending figures are obligations; the difference is a variance to review, not a finding.
Benign explanation: The sources place dollars differently: GDX follows the beneficiary's residence or the project site; USAspending follows the reported place of performance or the recipient's address.
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 | $1.1B | 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 | -$386K | 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 | $18.0M | 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.