Veterans Dependency and Indemnity Compensation for Service-Connected Death in Tennessee

Survivor compensation tagged to Tennessee, not a casualty statistic

This page joins CFDA 64.110 with Tennessee place of performance. Dependency and Indemnity Compensation is paid to eligible survivors of veterans whose deaths are service-connected, as VA administers the benefit. USAspending still records the $707,311,466 as obligations on 2,357 assistance awards. The extract does not count survivors, does not name veterans, and does not report causes of death. Treat the pair as a catalog join. It is not a league table of which state “lost more” veterans, and it is not a claim about Tennessee’s casualty rate.

Other VA listings — disability compensation, education, or health care — use different CFDA numbers. Those dollars are outside $707,311,466 unless they also carry 64.110. Place of performance as Tennessee locates the tagged awards; beneficiary address, processing office, and place of death can differ. The packet does not say which location field drove the state code. Correlation between the obligation total and Tennessee’s veteran population is not causation; population figures are not in this file.

2,357 awards as benefit rows, not 2,357 families named here

Award count on a compensation listing often tracks payment instruments, recertifications, or account rows rather than unique households. Two thousand three hundred fifty-seven is a row count, not a published survivor census. Mean obligation is about $300,090 if $707,311,466 were divided evenly — a mechanical ratio that can mix large multi-year accounts with smaller lines. This page will not treat that average as a typical DIC award.

Personally identifiable beneficiary names are not in these facts and should not be inferred from the overlay without reading what USAspending actually publishes. Open Veterans Dependency and Indemnity Compensation for Service-Connected Death in Tennessee for the award table as stored. Do not convert 2,357 into a narrative about individual families this packet does not identify. The $707,311,466 total remains a tagged obligation rollup.

Questions

How much VA DIC funding is obligated in Tennessee?

USAspending.gov shows $707,311,466 in obligations for CFDA 64.110 with Tennessee as place of performance, across 2,357 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not VA’s full Tennessee budget. Other VA listings are outside this join unless they also carry 64.110.

Does 2,357 awards equal 2,357 DIC survivors in Tennessee?

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. Inspect the Tennessee 64.110 overlay for how rows are stored.

Is this Tennessee’s entire veterans budget?

No. The join is CFDA 64.110 — Dependency and Indemnity Compensation for service-connected death — crossed with Tennessee place of performance. Disability compensation, education, and health-care listings use other CFDA numbers. Those dollars are not inside $707,311,466 unless they share 64.110.

Are the $707 million already paid to survivors?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $707,311,466 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault's extract. Check dates, offsets, and remaining entitlement are not published in this packet.