Department of Veterans Affairs · Fiscal Year 2025

Disability Compensation Recipients by County

County-level estimates of Veterans receiving VA Disability Compensation as of 9/30/2025, broken out by service-connected disability (SCD) rating, age group, and sex. Click a state on the board to drill down.

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▸FY 2025 ANNUAL BENEFITS REPORT — NATIONAL PICTURE$174.05B · 6.89M Veterans & survivors · searchable database — click to open
$174.05B
Est. annual compensation
$27,461
Avg annual payment / Veteran
6,887,577
Veterans + survivors on rolls
7.34
Avg SC disabilities / Veteran
$185.57B
Total incl. survivor benefits
▸Browse the Full Report Manually13 sections · every table from the FY 2025 PDF
▸Recipients by Rating, Sex & PaymentsAll 6.34M recipients · $174.05B/yr
All compensation recipients on the rolls 9/30/2025. Totals include 88,469 Veterans (and $1.68B) with no sex indicated. Avg = estimated annual average individual payment; totals exclude retroactive payments.
▸New to the Rolls — FY 2025 New Recipients476,802 new Veterans · $8.32B · avg $17,450
476,802
New Veteran recipients
55,700
New survivor (DIC) recipients
$8.32B
Est. annual payments (new)
$17,450
Avg payment / new Veteran
6.15
Avg disabilities / new Veteran
New recipients by rating, sex & payments
New recipients by rating, FY 2021 → FY 2025
Most prevalent conditions of new recipients — click a condition
Top 10 combined: 1,287,538 — 43.9% of new-recipient disabilities (Male 1,067,611 · 44.9% of male; Female 195,492 · 38.6% of female).
Women are 16.0% of new 10% ratings but 18.75% of new 100% ratings. New female recipients average $21,141/yr vs $16,929 for men. Totals include 12,270 recipients with no sex indicated.
▸Five-Year Trend, FY 2021 – FY 20255.23M → 6.34M · 100% ratings +19% in FY25
All recipients per fiscal year ■ rated 100%
All recipients by rating, FY 2021 → FY 2025
The rolls are migrating upward: every degree from 0–50% is shrinking while 100% ratings grew 19% in FY 2025 alone — now 1.85M Veterans, 29% of the rolls.
▸Recipients & Payments by Age35–54 largest group · avg $30,812/yr
All recipients
New in FY 2025
New recipients skew young — 34-and-under is the second-largest new cohort and averages $21,451/yr, double the 55–74 new-recipient average.
▸Period of Service — Recipients, Payments & Top ConditionsGulf War Era 63.2% · 9.07 disabilities/Veteran
FY 2025 new recipients by era
"On rolls %" is computed from the report's own figures: recipients ÷ living Veteran population of that era (VetPop2023). New Gulf War Era Veterans arrive with 7.70 disabilities on average — quadruple the WWII/Korea figure.
Most prevalent conditions by era — click an era for its full list
▸Global War on Terror (GWOT)1.76M Veterans · 37.5% rated 100% · avg $32,505
1,755,659
GWOT recipients (43.8% of Gulf era)
9.61
Avg disabilities (vs 8.64 non-GWOT)
$57.07B
Est. annual payments
$32,505
Avg annual payment
37.5%
Rated 100% disabled
All GWOT recipients by rating & payments
New GWOT recipients in FY 2025: 75,512 (64,528 men avg $19,965 · 10,709 women avg $23,018) · $1.54B · avg $20,404.
Most prevalent SC disabilities of all GWOT compensation recipients — click a condition
Top 10 combined: 6,731,469 disabilities — 39.9% of all GWOT (Male 5,749,071 · Female 952,291).
Most prevalent SC disabilities of new GWOT compensation recipients — click a condition
New GWOT top 10 combined: 239,334 — 44.1% of new-GWOT disabilities (Male 200,962 · 44.9%; Female 37,413 · 40.0%). Total new GWOT disabilities: 543,164.
GWOT disabilities by body system — click for top conditions
GWOT = Veterans deployed since 9/11 (OIF/OEF/OND), a subset of Gulf War Era. Women are 40.07% of GWOT 100% ratings.
▸Top 10 Individual ConditionsTinnitus #1 · 3.58M · 7.7% of all
The ten most prevalent individual service-connected conditions, out of roughly 900 rated by VA (report p. 99). Together they account for 39.7% of all rated disabilities.
Top 10 combined: 18,448,237 disabilities — 39.7% of all (Male 15,914,778 · Female 2,372,361).
▸Disabilities by Body System — 15 CategoriesTop conditions + how each system is rated
These are categories, not individual conditions. Click a system for its male/female split, top conditions, and the full rating distribution within that system (report pp. 100–105 & Tables 1–4). Gold % = share of all rated disabilities · blue % = change FY 2024 → 2025.
The rating distributions reveal the system: 76% of skin conditions are rated 0%, while 39% of mental-health conditions are rated 70% — the highest concentration of high ratings anywhere.
▸Most Prevalent SC Disabilities – by Disability TypeAll limitation-of-motion = 9.26M · 51.9% of musculoskeletal
VBA groups related disability codes to show patterns the individual-condition lists hide (report p. 106). Example: the top-10 list shows knee, arm, and ankle limitations separately — grouped, all limitation-of-motion conditions total 9,264,029, over half of everything musculoskeletal. Click a body system for its grouped types. Gold % = share of that system covered by the listed types.
Groups marked "all types" combine several disability codes. The report publishes this grouped view for Musculoskeletal, Neurological, and The Eye.
▸Body Systems Over Time, FY 2021 – FY 2025Digestive +21.8% for new claims · Respiratory +16% overall
All recipients — disabilities by body system per fiscal year
New recipients — disabilities by body system per fiscal year
New-claim patterns lead the overall trend: digestive claims by new recipients jumped 21.8% in FY 2025 while cardiovascular (−11.8%) and endocrine (−18.6%) new claims fell. PACT Act–era respiratory growth (+16% overall) is the fastest of any established system.
▸How the 46.5M Disabilities Are Rated38.6% rated 10% · only 1.7% rated 100%
Distribution of individual disability evaluations (report p. 96/102) — not Veterans' combined ratings. Most individual conditions are rated low; high combined ratings come from stacking many conditions (avg 7.34 per Veteran).
▸Survivors — Dependency & Indemnity Compensation549,324 survivors · $11.51B · new +20.7% in FY25
DIC is a tax-free benefit for surviving spouses, children, or dependent parents of Servicemembers who died on duty or Veterans who died from service-connected causes.
All DIC recipients
New DIC recipients, FY21 → FY25
Surviving spouses by age — all
Surviving spouses by age — new FY25
Surviving children by status — all
Surviving children by status — new FY25
New DIC awards jumped 20.7% in FY 2025 — surviving-child awards alone rose 45%. A child over 18 qualifies only if permanently incapable of self-support before 18, or in school between 18–23.
▸VBA Regional Offices & Contact56 regional offices · 1-800-827-1000
Compensation information
1-800-827-1000
Veterans Crisis Line
Dial 988, press 1
Online
va.gov · benefits.va.gov · benefits.va.gov/compensation
Claims mailing address
Compensation Intake Center, PO Box 4444, Janesville, WI 53547-4444
The Compensation program operates through 56 regional offices with 15,966 employees (21,483 including PACT).
Regional offices
District offices
Northeast DistrictMO
Charles F. Prevedel Federal Bldg., 9700 Page Avenue, Suite 301, St. Louis, MO 63132
Southeast DistrictGA
800 North Point Parkway, Suite 175, Alpharetta, GA 30005
Continental DistrictCO
155 Van Gordon Street, Lakewood, CO 80228
Pacific DistrictAZ
3333 North Central Avenue, Suite 3026, Phoenix, AZ 85012-2402
Source: VA FY 2025 Annual Benefits Report, Compensation section (data as of 9/30/2025). National figures; not affected by the state filter. Payment figures are estimated monthly benefit rates annualized — they exclude retroactive payments. The report's 6,338,253 total differs slightly from the county file's 6,331,627 due to suppression and coverage differences.

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