cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this dataset, please cite it as: Probative Growth, VA disability compensation, pension and survivor dollars by county (VA GDX report), 2026, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23964263. Source: Probative, VA disability compensation, pension and survivor dollars by county (VA GDX report), version 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23964263, licensed CC BY 4.0."
type: dataset
title: "VA disability compensation, pension and survivor dollars by county (VA GDX report)"
authors:
  - name: "Probative Growth"
    website: "https://probativegrowth.com"
version: "2.0.0"
date-released: 2026-11-04
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.23964263
url: "https://probativegrowth.com/data/va-spending/"
license: CC-BY-4.0
abstract: "Dollars the Department of Veterans Affairs paid in direct benefits in fiscal year 2025 in every U.S. county, from the Geographic Distribution of VA Expenditures (GDX) workbook of VA's National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics: disability compensation and veterans pension, dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) and survivors pension, insurance, and specially adapted housing, with the total recomputed as the sum of the four (the workbook's Total column is a formula), and the compensation, pension and survivor dollars of the year before for the change. One record per county or county equivalent (3,223), per state, DC, Puerto Rico and Guam, for foreign countries, the Freely Associated States, other U.S. territories and unknown addresses, and for the US (187,660,338,257 dollars in all). Counties carry the Census FIPS code; Connecticut's counties are the planning regions."
keywords:
  - "VA benefit spending by county"
  - "VA compensation dollars by county"
  - "veterans disability payments by county"
  - "Geographic Distribution of VA Expenditures"
  - "VA pension and survivor benefits by county"
  - "veterans disability lawyer market data"