Burial Expenses Allowance for Veterans — CFDA 64.101

Burial-allowance obligations at $1.97 billion

USAspending.gov records $1,968,808,013 in obligations under CFDA 64.101. Sixty-eight thousand five hundred ninety-six awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $28,700 per award — smaller than a typical grant and consistent with benefit-level payment rows. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical funeral invoice or a statutory maximum for any one claim.

The assistance-listing title is BURIAL EXPENSES ALLOWANCE FOR VETERANS. CFDA 64.101 is the identifier. Other VA benefit listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $1.97 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined VA-benefits total this packet does not contain.

68,596 awards, 0 recipients, 58 jurisdictions

The extract lists 68,596 awards and 0 recipients. Recipient count is the organizational headcount on the USAspending assistance file; a zero here means that field is unpopulated on this extract, not that burial allowances had no payees. Do not treat 0 as a finding that no families were paid. The packet does not name individuals.

Fifty-eight jurisdictions in the geographic count is among the widest maps in this batch. Burial-allowance geography follows where claims are coded. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a funeral or grave count

Among VA listings, 64.101 is a high-volume file: 68,596 rows with a 0-recipient headcount. Claim-level rows can inflate award count relative to unique veterans. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of burials.” Awards (68,596) tell you how many assistance rows were stored; recipients (0) tell you the organizational field is empty on this extract.

The packet does not report funerals, graves, or flags issued. Citing 68,596 as burials would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, a zero recipient count, jurisdictions.

Obligations versus burial-allowance outlays

The $1.97 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against burial-expense awards — are not in the packet. A benefit file can show a large obligation stock while payments follow a later calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 64.101 to size this Burial Expenses Allowance for Veterans listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a cemetery dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 64.101.

What the 64.101 tables omit

The burial-allowance hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a cemetery register, not a veteran roster, and not a funeral-invoice file. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $1,968,808,013. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 68,596 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 58 jurisdictions is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares. The 0-recipient count is a field condition on this extract, not a census of payees.

Where the 64.101 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 64.101 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other VA listings. For 64.101 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 64.101’s 68,596 awards sum to $1,968,808,013 with 0 organizational recipients and 58 jurisdictions. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the (empty) organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards. Read 64.101 as a high-volume VA benefit file with an empty organizational recipient field: 68,596 rows, 58 jurisdictions, and about $28,700 averages. The $1.97 billion remains an obligation stock on USAspending.gov, not a funeral or grave census. High row count with an empty recipient field is the VA benefit-payment signature on this extract, not a missing-dollar finding.

Questions

How much is obligated for burial expenses allowance for veterans?

USAspending.gov records $1,968,808,013 in obligations for CFDA 64.101. SpendingVault indexes 68,596 awards, 0 organizational recipients, and 58 jurisdictions. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a funeral count. CFDA 64.101’s $1.97 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 64.101 carry?

The listing shows 68,596 awards and a 0-recipient organizational count. A simple average is about $28,700 per award. Award count is not a funeral or grave count. Geography is coded to 58 jurisdictions.

Why does CFDA 64.101 show zero recipients?

The extract lists 0 recipients because the organizational recipient field is unpopulated on this USAspending assistance file. That is not evidence that the $1.97 billion has no payees. The packet does not name individuals. Geographic coding covers 58 jurisdictions.

Is $1.97 billion already paid as burial allowances?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 64.101’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or burials. The $1.97 billion on 68,596 awards is the obligation figure.