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Survivors Educational Assistance awarded by VA

$6,434,697,808 in USAspending.gov obligations sit on Survivors And Dependents Educational Assistance (CFDA 64.117) where the awarding agency is Department of Veterans Affairs (code 036), across 84,402 awards. SURVIVORS AND DEPENDENTS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE is CFDA 64.117; VA is agency 036. This page is that program–agency join, not a beneficiary headcount, a tuition-price index, or a campus enrollment ranking. Obligations are not outlays.

Key figures

  • Survivors And Dependents Educational Assistance via Department of Veterans Affairs: $6,434,697,808 in USAspending obligations (CFDA 64.117, agency 036).
  • Join obligations of $6,434,697,808 exceed the CFDA program total of $6,035,253,615 in this extract.
  • The table lists 84,402 awards, not a census of students.
  • The join is Survivors And Dependents Educational Assistance × Department of Veterans Affairs, not a GI Bill comparison chart or a named school roster.
  • Figures are obligations, not outlays.

Survivors Educational Assistance overlapping VA — CFDA 64.117

The pair is Survivors And Dependents Educational Assistance × Department of Veterans Affairs. $6,434,697,808 is the obligation aggregate for rows that carry both CFDA 64.117 and awarding-agency 036. The join obligation $6,434,697,808 exceeds the CFDA program total of $6,035,253,615 in this extract. This page does not invent a reconciliation; both figures are packet facts for Survivors Educational Assistance and Department of Veterans Affairs. Correlation is not causation: the join does not prove that Department of Veterans Affairs caused Survivors Educational Assistance activity, only that USAspending coded the two keys together. It is not a GI Bill comparison chart or a named school roster.

SpendingVault indexes the cell from USAspending.gov. The catalog title on the program side is SURVIVORS AND DEPENDENTS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE. The agency name on the awarding side is Department of Veterans Affairs. Neither label is a contractor, a place of performance, or a fiscal-year stamp — this packet publishes no fiscal year. Cite $6,434,697,808 as obligations on the Survivors Educational Assistance–VA pair.

CFDA 64.117 as the survivors and dependents education side

CFDA 64.117 is the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance identifier for Survivors And Dependents Educational Assistance. The program-wide obligation total in this extract is $6,035,253,615. That figure is a program rollup, not a second headline for the Department of Veterans Affairs slice unless the two amounts match. Do not treat $6,035,253,615 as cash Treasury already sent. Beneficiary names, schools, and benefit chapters are unpublished on this packet.

Agency 036, Department of Veterans Affairs

Department of Veterans Affairs is awarding-agency 036 on USAspending assistance rows. The agency hub Department of Veterans Affairs at /agencies/036/ rolls up every program that agency awards in the index, not only Survivors Educational Assistance. Reading $6,434,697,808 as Department of Veterans Affairs’s entire book would over-read this cell. The join is one CFDA inside one agency, not a department budget justification.

Do not add Federal Election Commission contribution totals to $6,434,697,808. Campaign-finance receipts and USAspending award obligations are separate public-record systems even when a geography or a calendar year happens to overlap. This packet has no FEC facts.

84,402 awards as a CFDA table, not a student census

The extract lists 84,402 awards on the Survivors Educational Assistance × Department of Veterans Affairs table. That is an award-record count, not a census of students. Unique recipients are unpublished. Modifications can add rows without naming a new organization. Dividing $6,434,697,808 by 84,402 is not published here as a typical award size, because the packet does not say the rows are comparable.

84,402 is the award-record count on this extract, not a published census of students. Unique vendors and places of performance are unpublished. Do not read 84,402 as 84,402 finished projects in Survivors Educational Assistance.

School rankings this survivors-education–VA join cannot support

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $6,434,697,808 is the former. Citing it as cash already cleared on Survivors Educational Assistance over-reads the field. The join cannot say that Department of Veterans Affairs specialized in Survivors Educational Assistance because of a policy success metric this packet omits. Keep $6,434,697,808 labeled as Survivors And Dependents Educational Assistance obligations awarded by Department of Veterans Affairs.

Hubs for CFDA 64.117 × agency 036

Open /programs/64.117/ for CFDA 64.117, /agencies/036/ for Department of Veterans Affairs, /programs/ (All programs) for other catalog lines, and /ties/ (All spending ties) for other pairs. None of those links convert this cell into a GI Bill comparison chart or a named school roster, into outlays this packet omits, or into a contractor list. Cite both sides: Survivors And Dependents Educational Assistance and Department of Veterans Affairs, $6,434,697,808, USAspending.gov, obligations only.

Keep the citation narrow: CFDA 64.117 and awarding-agency 036 on USAspending.gov, obligations only, with no invented recipients. Beneficiary names, schools, and benefit chapters are unpublished on this packet.

Questions

How much did Department of Veterans Affairs award on Survivors And Dependents Educational Assistance?
USAspending.gov records $6,434,697,808 in Survivors And Dependents Educational Assistance obligations awarded by Department of Veterans Affairs (CFDA 64.117, agency 036) across 84,402 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for the pair, not an outlay and not Department of Veterans Affairs’s entire book.
Is survivors educational assistance via VA an outlay?
No. $6,434,697,808 is an obligation sum, not an outlay. Payments from the Treasury can lag or differ. This packet has no outlay total for Survivors Educational Assistance awarded by Department of Veterans Affairs. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
Does 84,402 awards mean 84,402 students?
No. 84,402 is an award-record count, not a census of students. Unique recipients and places of performance are unpublished. Modifications can add rows without a new organization. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. Keep both the CFDA number and the awarding-agency code in the citation.
Which pages parent Survivors Educational Assistance and VA?
/programs/64.117/ is the program parent. /agencies/036/ is the Department of Veterans Affairs parent. /programs/ lists programs. /ties/ lists other pairs. Prefer those tables after later ingests; this page quotes Survivors Educational Assistance × VA at $6,434,697,808.

USAspending.gov CFDA program joined to awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.