Survivors and Dependents Educational Assistance — CFDA 64.117

Eighty-one thousand awards at $6.04 billion

USAspending.gov records $6,035,253,615 in obligations under CFDA 64.117. Eighty-one thousand three hundred ninety-nine awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $74,200 per award — far smaller than state block grants, which matches an education-benefit file that posts many individual or term-level actions rather than a handful of large grants.

The assistance-listing title is SURVIVORS AND DEPENDENTS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE. CFDA 64.117 is the identifier. Other veterans-education listings, if tagged under other CFDA numbers, are not included in the $6.04 billion. Mixing those codes would invent a combined GI-Bill total this packet does not contain.

USAspending.gov records the $6,035,253,615 obligation stock for CFDA 64.117 together with 81,399 awards, 0 recipients in this extract, and 56 states. Keep survivors-and-dependents educational assistance on 64.117 when quoting these four facts. Outlays remain a separate column.

A zero on the recipient dimension

The extract lists 0 recipients against 81,399 awards. That zero is a stored field on this aggregate, not a finding that no students received assistance. Benefit-style files sometimes omit a populated recipient rollup even while award rows are numerous. Do not cite 0 as “no one was paid.” Cite it as the recipient count on this extract.

Fifty-six states in the geographic count show nationwide coding in the USAspending state field, including territories in the coded-jurisdiction set. Education-benefit dollars still concentrate where eligible dependents enroll. The state count does not flatten those differences. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a student count

Among veterans listings, 64.117 is an outlier on award count: 81,399 rows. Term actions, corrections, and related records can inflate award count relative to unique students. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of dependents in school.” With recipient count stored as 0, the organizational headcount is not available on this extract.

The packet does not report enrollment, credit hours, or graduation. Citing 81,399 as students or campuses would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, the stored recipient field, states.

Obligations versus education-benefit cash

The $6.04 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against survivors-and-dependents educational assistance — are not in the packet. A recorded obligation can sit on a different calendar from tuition payments. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 64.117 to size this educational-assistance listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as an enrollment dashboard. Student-level series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 64.117.

What the 64.117 tables omit

The Survivors and Dependents Educational Assistance hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a student roster, not a campus directory, and not a benefits-eligibility file. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $6,035,253,615. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 81,399 award rows.

The stored recipient count of 0 means this aggregate does not publish an organizational headcount. Place-of-performance on 56 states is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares.

Where the 64.117 table lives

The Survivors and Dependents Educational Assistance program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 64.117 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other veterans listings. For 64.117 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 64.117’s 81,399 awards carry $6,035,253,615 across 56 states, with 0 recipients stored on this extract. Quote award count as a record count, the recipient field as stored, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About $74,200 per award on a simple average is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards. The four-fact citation for CFDA 64.117 is the obligation stock on this extract, together with the award, recipient, and state counts already named above. Do not convert those figures into outlays, and do not treat award count as a service census.

Questions

How much is obligated for survivors and dependents educational assistance?

USAspending.gov records $6,035,253,615 in obligations for CFDA 64.117. SpendingVault indexes 81,399 awards, 0 recipients on this extract, and 56 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a student count. CFDA 64.117’s $6.04 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

Why does CFDA 64.117 have so many awards?

The listing shows 81,399 awards. Education-benefit assistance often posts many term-level actions, which inflates award count relative to unique students. A simple average is about $74,200 per award. Award count is not a student or campus count. USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault are the source for this obligation stock.

Does a recipient count of 0 mean nobody received funds?

No. The extract stores 0 on the recipient dimension while still indexing 81,399 awards and $6.04 billion in obligations. That zero is a stored field on this aggregate, not a finding that no dependents were paid. Geographic coding covers 56 states.

Is $6.04 billion already paid as education benefits?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 64.117’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash paid, remaining balances, or enrollment. The $6.04 billion on 81,399 awards is the obligation figure. USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault are the source for this obligation stock.