Veterans Compensation for Service-Connected Disability in Colorado

How Colorado and CFDA 64.109 share one cell

CFDA 64.109 is titled VETERANS COMPENSATION FOR SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY. Filtered to Colorado place of performance, obligations sum to $8,506,885,184 on 1,790 awards. Compensation lines can post as many instruments rather than one statewide row; that still does not identify veterans or rating decisions. The national 64.109 hub includes every other state. Colorado federal spending includes every other program. This tie is the intersection.

An obligation is not an outlay. The packet publishes no fiscal year, so $8,506,885,184 cannot be treated as a single benefit year or as completed payments to individuals. Correlation between Colorado geography and 64.109 coding is not evidence that disability ratings, claims times, or veteran counts changed.

Packet facts stop at Colorado, CFDA 64.109, $8,506,885,184, and 1,790 awards. Recipient names and veteran counts are absent. Do not invent contractors, clinics, or award recipients. This page offers no benefits advice.

64.109 is not VA pension in Colorado

Pension for Non-Service-Connected Disability and other VA catalogs sit on different CFDA numbers. Mixing those dollars into $8,506,885,184 would invent a broader total than this 64.109 × CO cell contains. Facts available: Colorado, CFDA 64.109, $8,506,885,184, 1,790 awards. The program name on the packet is Veterans Compensation For Service-Connected Disability.

Dividing $8,506,885,184 by 1,790 yields about $4.75 million per award. That average is an implied mean of recorded instruments, not a typical monthly compensation check and not a median. Unique recipients are unpublished. 1,790 is not a count of Colorado veterans, claims, or VA facilities.

Questions

How much VA service-connected disability compensation is obligated in Colorado?

USAspending.gov shows $8,506,885,184 in CFDA 64.109 obligations coded to Colorado across 1,790 awards. The catalog is Veterans Compensation For Service-Connected Disability. The total is obligations, not outlays. Keep 64.109 and Colorado together when citing $8,506,885,184.

Is 64.109 the same as VA pension in Colorado?

No. This cell is CFDA 64.109 only. Pension for non-service-connected disability uses other Catalog numbers. Mixing those dollars would invent a total larger than $8,506,885,184. 1,790 is a record count, not a veteran census. Keep Veterans Compensation For Service-Connected Disability and Colorado together when citing $8,506,885,184. The packet publishes no fiscal year, so the 64.109 × Colorado cell cannot be annualized from these facts.

Does 1,790 awards mean 1,790 Colorado veterans?

1,790 is a USAspending award-record count, not a veteran, claim, or clinic census. The implied mean is about $4.75 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $8,506,885,184 are not outlays. Packet facts stop at $8,506,885,184, 1790 awards, CO, and 64.109. Place of performance is a geography tag, not a roster of named recipients.

Do these obligations equal compensation already paid?

No. $8,506,885,184 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. This packet has no veteran count. Keep the obligation label when citing the 64.109 × CO pair. Keep the obligation label on $8,506,885,184 and name both Veterans Compensation For Service-Connected Disability and Colorado. Original filings for CFDA 64.109 remain on USAspending.gov.