Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance in Virginia

Thousands of education-benefit records, one VA cell

This tie keeps USAspending assistance where CFDA 64.028 meets Virginia place of performance. The dollar book is $1,809,881,498. The award count is 3,809. Post-9/11 GI Bill activity often posts as a high-volume tape of payments to schools, training providers, and related recipients rather than a handful of formula grants. Three thousand eight hundred nine records still do not equal 3,809 unique veterans; modifications and multiple terms can share the extract.

The join does not prove that Virginia’s military installations, Northern Virginia contractor workforce, or public-university enrollment caused $1,809,881,498. Those are other series. This packet does not split undergraduate tuition from housing stipends. Correlation is not causation.

A reader who treats the cell as Virginia’s full VA obligation book has left the CFDA-by-state definition. Compensation, pension, and medical lines are different catalog numbers. The 3,809 figure is a record count, not a headcount of student veterans.

High volume, smaller implied mean

Three thousand eight hundred nine awards under $1,809,881,498 imply a mean near $475,159 per award. That average is still a blend of large institutional payments and smaller actions. The packet has no median and no share on the largest ten recipients.

Compared with seven-award IDEA files in the same state, 3,809 rows is a much thicker tape for a similar dollar magnitude. That contrast is a filing pattern: education benefits post at a finer grain than SEA formula grants. Cite both columns. USAspending.gov is the source; SpendingVault does not recast the mean as a typical academic-year benefit.

Questions

How much Post-9/11 GI Bill spending is in Virginia?

USAspending.gov shows $1,809,881,498 in CFDA 64.028 obligations coded to Virginia across 3,809 awards. The join uses the program number and Virginia place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Does 3,809 awards mean 3,809 student veterans?

No. The extract counts 3,809 award records tagged to CFDA 64.028 and Virginia. Multiple terms and modifications can appear as separate records. The implied mean is about $475,159 per award from the two packet facts.

Is $1.81 billion Virginia’s full VA spending?

No. $1,809,881,498 is only the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance cell. Other CFDA programs with Virginia place of performance sit on the statewide hub. Nationwide 64.028 is not limited to Virginia.

Do these obligations equal tuition checks cashed?

No. $1,809,881,498 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Term-by-term disbursements can lag the obligation.