Pension to Veterans Surviving Spouses, and Children — CFDA 64.105

Survivors-pension obligations at $1.71 billion

USAspending.gov records $1,712,110,675 in obligations under CFDA 64.105. Sixty-five thousand sixteen awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $26,334 per award — far smaller than a typical state grant and consistent with beneficiary-level pension rows. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical monthly pension or a per-survivor entitlement.

The assistance-listing title is PENSION TO VETERANS SURVIVING SPOUSES, AND CHILDREN. CFDA 64.105 is the identifier. Other VA compensation, DIC, or education listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $1.71 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined VA-benefits total this packet does not contain.

65,016 awards and a 0 recipient field

The packet reports recipientCount as 0. That is not a claim that nobody received survivors pension; it is a gap in the organizational recipient field on this extract. With 65,016 award rows, the file is built at beneficiary scale. Do not invent a recipient headcount. Quote the 0 as the indexed field, then read award count and dollars.

Fifty-six states in the geographic count is a near-complete map plus territories. Survivors-pension dollars follow where beneficiaries were coded. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Sixty-five thousand sixteen awards at about $26,334 each is beneficiary-scale pension architecture. The 0 recipient field means organizational UEI aggregation is blank on this extract even though 56 states are coded. Do not fill that blank with a guessed survivor count. The $1,712,110,675 obligation stock is still not an outlay, not DIC, and not disability compensation. Those VA streams use other CFDA numbers. Quote 65,016 as assistance rows, 0 as the indexed recipient field, and 56 as coded states.

Award count is not a survivor count

Among VA assistance listings, 64.105 is a high-volume file: 65,016 rows. Payment-period rows can inflate award count relative to unique beneficiaries. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of surviving spouses.” Recipients are not available on this packet; awards (65,016) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report caseloads, DIC overlap, or child counts. Citing 65,016 as people would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, states — and a blank recipient field.

Obligations versus payment outlays

The $1.71 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against survivors-pension awards — are not in the packet. A beneficiary row can show an obligated amount while a payment follows a later cycle. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 64.105 to size this Pension to Veterans Surviving Spouses, and Children listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a disability-compensation, DIC, or GI Bill dashboard. Those series live on other codes. This page reports the obligation book tagged 64.105.

What the 64.105 tables omit

The survivors-pension hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a beneficiary directory, not a monthly-rate table, and not a claims-backlog file. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $1,712,110,675. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 65,016 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 56 states is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares. The 0 recipient count is an extract field, not a finding that payments had no payees.

Where the 64.105 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 64.105 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other VA listings. For 64.105 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 64.105’s 65,016 awards sum to $1,712,110,675 across 56 states, with recipientCount indexed at 0. Quote award count as a record count, the recipient field as blank on this extract, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About $26,334 per award is the size story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Questions

How much is obligated for pension to veterans’ surviving spouses and children?

USAspending.gov records $1,712,110,675 in obligations for CFDA 64.105. SpendingVault indexes 65,016 awards, a recipient count of 0 on this extract, and 56 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a survivor count. CFDA 64.105’s $1.71 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 64.105 carry?

The listing shows 65,016 awards. A simple average is about $26,334 per award. Award count is not a spouse or child count. The packet does not publish an organizational recipient total. Award dollars are on the program page. USAspending.gov indexes those rows as assistance obligations, not outlays.

Why does 64.105 show 0 recipients?

The extract lists recipientCount as 0. That is a blank organizational field on this packet, not a finding that no survivor was paid. Geographic coding covers 56 states. Quote the 0 as indexed and use the 65,016 award rows for volume.

Is $1.71 billion already paid to surviving spouses?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 64.105’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or beneficiary counts. The $1.71 billion on 65,016 awards is the obligation figure.