Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance obligations 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.

Virginia’s 64.028 cell versus the statewide stack

Virginia’s state hub stacks every CFDA with performance coded to the Commonwealth. Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance is one VA line. $1,809,881,498 is not Virginia’s all-program total. The nationwide CFDA 64.028 page includes every state, so it is not this cell.

Place-of-performance for GI Bill assistance often follows the school’s location even when the veteran’s home of record is elsewhere. This packet does not reallocate benefits to home states. Read the overlay as a coding view of 3,809 awards.

Obligations versus tuition paid

The $1,809,881,498 figure is an obligation sum. Disbursements to schools and housing payments can trail or split across terms. SpendingVault does not publish a 64.028-in-Virginia outlay total in this packet. Mixing enrollment or Yellow Ribbon statistics with this award file leaves the USAspending series.

Cite the join as CFDA 64.028 × Virginia, $1,809,881,498, 3,809 awards, obligations only.

Where the table lives

The Virginia × Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance overlay is the table view. Recipient slices on that hub still sum toward $1,809,881,498 on 3,809 awards. The Virginia spending page and the CFDA 64.028 program page are the parents. The Virginia programs index and the ties index list other pairs.

None of those links convert the cell into a veteran headcount or into outlays this packet omits.

What Virginia’s GI Bill join is not

Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance in Virginia is not a ranking of universities and not a count of veterans living in the Commonwealth. The $1,809,881,498 figure is the CFDA 64.028 × Virginia cell. Three thousand eight hundred nine awards describe how education-benefit records were filed, including multiple terms, not 3,809 unique students. Housing stipends and tuition payments that still carry 64.028 are not split in this packet.

Place-of-performance often follows the school, so a veteran whose home of record is elsewhere can still appear in the Virginia cell. Cite 64.028 and Virginia together, keep the obligation label, and keep the 3,809-award count. Compensation and medical VA lines are different catalog numbers. Later bulk files can revise both dollars and the record count.

Virginia’s Post-9/11 cell also does not include Yellow Ribbon participation, housing-stipend ZIP tables, or a unique-veteran headcount. Those series live with VA. SpendingVault cites USAspending.gov obligations only: CFDA 64.028 × Virginia, $1,809,881,498, 3,809 awards. If a later extract revises the 3,809-row tape, the implied mean near $475,159 moves with it. Quote the packet facts and the overlay path rather than a campus ranking.

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.