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Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance

Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance recorded $9.0 billion of federal assistance obligations under this Assistance Listing in fiscal year 2026, which ranks 28 of 1,888 assistance programs with a figure in FY2026.

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Identifiers

Assistance Listing
64.028

The record

Reported figures for Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance, each linked to its source
Obligated · FY2026Assistance only — grants, loans, direct payments and insurance. Contracts carry no Assistance Listing number and are not in this figure.$9,012,696,091USD
Rank among assistance programs · FY202628 of 1,888by obligations
Share of all assistance programs · FY2026Of $4.1 trillion, which is what every assistance program the publisher reported obligated in FY2026 — not the federal total, which is larger.0.2%percent

By fiscal year

Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance: federal assistance obligations under this Assistance Listing, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$8,405,532,675
FY2023$8,744,628,818
FY2024$9,689,763,543
FY2025$10,842,038,663
FY2026$9,012,696,091

The publisher holds five fiscal years of this breakdown. A year missing from this table is a year this assistance program was not reported in, not a year of no spending.

The nearest ranks

assistance programs ranked nearest Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance, FY2026
Rankassistance programObligated
25Surface Transportation Block Grant Program$11,014,119,569
26Veterans Dependency and Indemnity Compensation for Service-Connected Death$10,011,228,897
27Rural Health Transformation Program$10,000,000,000
29Child Care and Development Block Grant$8,381,461,673
30WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children $8,315,529,410
31Supplemental Disaster Relief Program$7,320,125,914

What this data cannot show

  • The fiscal year is not over. These are obligations recorded so far, and a figure here is not comparable with a full year.
  • An obligation is a binding commitment to pay, not money paid. Outlays are reported separately and the two are never equal in the same year.
  • Assistance only — grants, loans, direct payments and insurance. Contracts carry no Assistance Listing number and are not in this figure.
  • This page is built from the database rather than from the committed extract, so it covers every assistance program the publisher reported and not only the largest hundred the ranking names. Both come from the same ingest on the date above.

Sources

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Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance: $9.0 billion (FY2026)