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Award obligations from USAspending, with detail archived for FFY 2024 · 6 sub-agencies.
VA provides health care, disability compensation, education benefits, and other services for veterans. It is consistently one of the larger awarding and outlay agencies. Award figures on The Ledger come from archived USAspending awarding-agency rollups (obligations). That is not the same as every dollar the agency outlays.
Obligations · FFY 2024
$238.4B
Awarding agency VA
Transactions
547,760
Award transactions in FFY 2024
Share of awards
4.82%
Of archived awarding-agency obligations in FFY 2024
MTS outlays · FFY 2025
$376.6B
Matched Monthly Treasury Statement line
| Fiscal year | Obligations |
|---|---|
| FFY 2024 | $238.4B |
| FFY 2023 | $256.9B |
| FFY 2022 | $290.7B |
| FFY 2021 | $254.2B |
| FFY 2018 | $193.0B |
| FFY 2017 | $203.1B |
| FFY 2016 | $198.1B |
| Category | Amount |
|---|---|
| Direct payments | $168.1B |
| Contracts | $66.9B |
| Grants | $2.2B |
| Other | $1.2B |
| IDVs | $26.7M |
| Loans | −$42.4M |
| Sub-agency | Code | Obligations | Transactions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under Secretary for Benefits/Veterans Benefits Administration | — | $168.7B | 379,664 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | VA | $66.9B | 126,212 |
| Under Secretary for Health/Veterans Health Administration | — | $2.7B | 41,451 |
| Directory/National Cemetery Administration | NCA | $43.0M | 433 |
| Fiscal year | Net outlays |
|---|---|
| FFY 2025 | $376.6B |
| FFY 2024 | $325.0B |
| FFY 2023 | $301.0B |
| FFY 2022 | $273.9B |
| FFY 2021 | $233.8B |
| FFY 2018 | $178.5B |
| FFY 2017 | $176.0B |
| FFY 2016 | $174.0B |