Veterans compensation for service-connected disability in Maryland (CFDA 64.109)

Fewer instruments, still an $8.21 billion Maryland cell

CFDA 64.109 is titled VETERANS COMPENSATION FOR SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY. Filtered to Maryland place of performance, obligations sum to $8,214,357,234 on 696 awards. Compared with the Oklahoma and Colorado 64.109 cells on this site, Maryland’s award count is smaller while the dollar total remains in the same order of magnitude. Those other states are not inside $8,214,357,234. The national 64.109 hub includes every state. Maryland federal spending includes every other program. This tie is the Maryland intersection only.

An obligation is not an outlay. The packet publishes no fiscal year, so $8,214,357,234 cannot be treated as a single benefit year or as completed payments. Correlation between Maryland geography and 64.109 coding is not evidence that disability ratings, claims times, or veteran counts changed.

Packet facts stop at Maryland, CFDA 64.109, $8,214,357,234, and 696 awards. Recipient names and veteran counts are absent. Do not invent contractors, clinics, or award recipients. This page offers no benefits advice.

What 64.109 does not include in Maryland

Pension for non-service-connected disability, education benefits, and VA medical-care catalogs sit on different CFDA numbers. Mixing those dollars into $8,214,357,234 would invent a broader total than this 64.109 × MD cell contains. Facts available: Maryland, CFDA 64.109, $8,214,357,234, 696 awards. The program name on the packet is Veterans Compensation For Service-Connected Disability.

Dividing $8,214,357,234 by 696 yields about $11.80 million per award. That average is an implied mean of recorded instruments, not a typical monthly compensation check and not a median. Unique recipients are unpublished. 696 is not a count of Maryland veterans, claims, or VA facilities in Baltimore, Bethesda, or around the District of Columbia border.

Maryland geography on the 64.109 tag

MD is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to Baltimore, Annapolis, or another Maryland locality can share the tag. Awards coded to Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, or the District of Columbia stay outside $8,214,357,234 even when a commuting pattern or VA catchment crosses a border. The code does not convert $8.21 billion into a veteran map, and this page does not rank counties.

Maryland federal spending is the all-program parent. 64.109 is one row on Maryland programs. $8,214,357,234 is not the state's complete federal footprint. Open Veterans Compensation For Service-Connected Disability in Maryland for the filtered table, CFDA 64.109 for the program without a Maryland filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into this cell.

Reading 696 awards under $8.21 billion

$8,214,357,234 ÷ 696 is about $11.80 million per award. The figure is not a median and is not a cost per veteran. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 696 as a USAspending award-record count, not as 696 finished claims.

Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see how many of the 696 rows are new obligations, continuations, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $8,214,357,234 without changing the join key of 64.109 and MD.

What the 64.109–Maryland pair does not prove

A service-connected disability compensation total tagged to Maryland does not measure health outcomes, claims backlogs, or veteran well-being, and it does not equal cash disbursed. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $8,214,357,234 on 696 awards for Veterans Compensation For Service-Connected Disability in Maryland.

Keep both sides of the join: Veterans Compensation For Service-Connected Disability and Maryland, obligations only. Do not annualize $8,214,357,234 without a year field. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a benefits narrative.

Using the Maryland × 64.109 overlay

The overlay target is /states/md/programs/64.109/. Open Veterans Compensation For Service-Connected Disability in Maryland when you want the same $8,214,357,234 / 696-awards cell in the site's data chrome. CFDA 64.109 drops the Maryland filter. Maryland federal spending drops the catalog filter. Maryland programs lists other catalogs beside 64.109. All spending ties is the directory of other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to argue that Maryland won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 64.109 plus MD. Obligations of $8,214,357,234 are not outlays. Cite Veterans Compensation For Service-Connected Disability together with Maryland whenever you reuse $8,214,357,234.

Questions

How much VA service-connected disability compensation is obligated in Maryland?

USAspending.gov shows $8,214,357,234 in CFDA 64.109 obligations coded to Maryland across 696 awards. The catalog is Veterans Compensation For Service-Connected Disability. The total is obligations, not outlays. Keep 64.109 and Maryland together when citing $8,214,357,234.

Is 64.109 the same as VA medical care in Maryland?

No. This cell is CFDA 64.109 only. Medical-care and pension catalogs use other numbers. Mixing those dollars would invent a total larger than $8,214,357,234. 696 is a record count, not a veteran census. Keep Veterans Compensation For Service-Connected Disability and Maryland together when citing $8,214,357,234. The packet publishes no fiscal year, so the 64.109 × Maryland cell cannot be annualized from these facts.

Does 696 awards mean 696 Maryland veterans?

696 is a USAspending award-record count, not a veteran, claim, or clinic census. The implied mean is about $11.80 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $8,214,357,234 are not outlays. Packet facts stop at $8,214,357,234, 696 awards, MD, and 64.109. Place of performance is a geography tag, not a roster of named recipients.

Do these obligations equal compensation already paid?

No. $8,214,357,234 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. This packet has no veteran count. Keep the obligation label when citing the 64.109 × MD pair. Keep the obligation label on $8,214,357,234 and name both Veterans Compensation For Service-Connected Disability and Maryland. Original filings for CFDA 64.109 remain on USAspending.gov.