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    • FY 2023 Pension Recipients by State

    Metadata Updated: April 2, 2025

    This report provides state-level estimates of the number of Veterans who were receiving VA Pension benefits as of the end of fiscal year 2023. 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 123 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 2023 but were no longer pension recipients at the end of FY 2023 is 32,176. These Veterans are not included in the table.

    Source: Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Enterprise Integration, Veteran Object FY23 data and Veterans Benefits Administration VETSNET FY 2023 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 April 28, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date April 2, 2025
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from VA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

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    Metadata Created Date April 28, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date April 2, 2025
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