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    • FY 2024 Pension Recipients by State

    Metadata Updated: February 2, 2026

    This report provides state-level estimates of the number of Veterans receiving VA Pension benefits at the close of fiscal year 2024. It includes the Veterans’ sex. Blank values represent small cell counts that have been suppressed to protect the identity of Veterans as well as some cell counts that have been suppressed in order to prevent the determination of the values of the aforementioned small cell counts. Some categories may not sum to the total due to missing information (e.g., sex, etc.).

    The availability of sex data is limited as some records have no sex available. In the table, there are 164 Veterans whose sex is not available.

    There are a small number of pension recipients for whom neither state nor country could be determined from the data sources used. These pension recipients are not included in the table.

    The number of Veterans who were pension recipients during FY 2024 but were no longer pension recipients at the end of FY 2024 is 26,795. These Veterans are not included in the table.

    Source: Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Enterprise Integration, USVETS24 data and Veterans Benefits Administration VETSNET FY 2024 pension data.

    Prepared by National Center for Veterans Analysis & Statistics, www.va.gov/vetdata.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date February 2, 2026
    Metadata Updated Date February 2, 2026
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from VA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date February 2, 2026
    Metadata Updated Date February 2, 2026
    Publisher Department of Veterans Affairs
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.data.va.gov/api/views/vp34-vuw8
    Data First Published 2026-01-28
    Language English
    Data Last Modified 2026-01-28
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y
    Bureau Code 029:00
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    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.data.va.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id c3895f87-e556-41d3-9bf6-d00102035e86
    Harvest Source Id fcd1f625-1c2e-4663-95cf-1b0eb053cce1
    Harvest Source Title VA JSON
    Homepage URL https://www.data.va.gov/d/vp34-vuw8
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 029:009
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 0a95f4507b47a8d5930e97d0092aa733f49978783f864490ffaf85da8c11c2a9
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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