Veterans Dependency and Indemnity Compensation for Service-Connected Death in South Carolina

South Carolina × DIC, without turning benefits into a casualty ranking

CFDA 64.110 and South Carolina place of performance meet in this extract at $672,230,253 on 1,195 awards. Dependency and Indemnity Compensation is a survivor benefit VA administers when a veteran’s death is service-connected. USAspending records the tagged obligations; it does not publish a list of deceased veterans on this page and does not invite a comparison of which state is “harder hit.” Sibling 64.110 joins in other states are separate obligation totals. They are not a safer/worse table.

Place of performance as South Carolina locates the awards as coded. Beneficiary residence, a VA regional office, and place of death can diverge. The packet does not identify which field produced the state code. Other VA CFDA numbers for compensation, education, or medical care are outside $672,230,253 unless they also carry 64.110. Correlation with South Carolina’s veteran population is not causation; that population is not in the facts. Sibling DIC pages are separate obligation totals. They are not a safer or worse comparison, a framing that does not apply to a compensation listing. The extract reports $672,230,253 on 1,195 awards for the tagged pair.

1,195 assistance rows on a compensation listing

Award count is a row count. Recertifications, account changes, or multiple instruments can add rows without adding unique survivor households. Mean obligation is about $562,536 if $672,230,253 were divided evenly across 1,195 lines — arithmetic, not a typical DIC payment, and not an annual rate. This page will not present that average as a household statistic.

The overlay may show aggregated payment vehicles rather than named individuals. Do not treat 1,195 as a published count of South Carolina DIC families. Open Veterans Dependency and Indemnity Compensation for Service-Connected Death in South Carolina for the stored table. Personally identifiable details are not in these packet facts. The $672,230,253 total remains a catalog join.

Questions

How much VA DIC funding is obligated in South Carolina?

USAspending.gov shows $672,230,253 in obligations for CFDA 64.110 with South Carolina as place of performance, across 1,195 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not VA’s full state budget. Other VA listings are outside this join unless they also carry 64.110.

Does 1,195 awards mean 1,195 DIC survivors?

No. Award count is a row count of assistance awards and can include recertifications or multiple instruments. It is not a survivor census or a death count. The packet does not name beneficiaries. See the South Carolina 64.110 overlay for how rows are stored.

Can this total be compared to other states’ DIC pages?

Each 64.110 state join is its own obligation rollup. Different place-of-performance coding and award-row practices mean the dollars are not a ranking of which state lost more veterans. This page reports $672,230,253 and 1,195 awards for South Carolina only, as commitments, not outlays.

Are the $672 million already paid?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $672,230,253 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault's extract. Payment dates and remaining entitlement are not published in this packet.