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  "dataset": "VA disability compensation recipients, FY2015 to FY2025",
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  "publisher": "Vetrify (vetrify.ai), compiling U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Benefits Administration reports",
  "license": "The figures are U.S. government public-domain data; this file's structure may be used freely with attribution to vetrify.ai",
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    "Counts are veterans on the rolls on September 30, the last day of each fiscal year.",
    "Each year comes from that year's own report, as published. The FY2024 and FY2025 reports correct the FY2020 to FY2023 figures 'to remove Veterans that did not receive a benefit payment' (FY2024 report, PDF page 77, footnote 11), so this series' FY2020 to FY2023 figures include those veterans; vetrify.ai/research/va-disability-by-the-numbers lists every correction to the veteran counts and the disability totals.",
    "The most-prevalent counts are numbers of service-connected disabilities, in the unit of each report's 'Total number of disabilities', not numbers of veterans.",
    "Every report from FY2015 to FY2025 says it counts veterans receiving individual unemployability at their combined evaluation, not as 100% disabled, so the 100% row does not include veterans paid at the 100% rate for individual unemployability.",
    "The 0% row counts only veterans paid something at a 0% combined degree: special monthly compensation, or payment at the 10% rate for two or more separate permanent 0% disabilities that clearly interfere with normal employability. Veterans rated 0% and paid nothing are not counted (FY2015 report, PDF page 74, footnote 6).",
    "In FY2018 the payments-by-period table (PDF page 84) prints Peacetime Era as 780,786, and its rows add up to one veteran less than its 4,743,108 total; on the same page the new-recipients total carries the footnote 'Total includes 1 Veteran from World War I indicated in the award record.' The Quick Reference (PDF page 72) prints 'Peacetime Era (Other)' as 780,787, which adds up to the total. The series uses the Quick Reference, so its FY2018 'Peacetime Era (Other)' most likely includes that one World War I veteran.",
    "The FY2019 report's table by gender (PDF page 82, printed page 11 of 52) prints counts by combined degree that add up to 4,927,041, not to the 4,944,275 total it prints, and differ from the report's five-year table (PDF page 80) at nine of eleven degrees. The five-year table adds up to its total, and the later reports that reprint FY2019 agree with it, so the series uses it.",
    "The FY2021 report's table by gender (PDF page 77) prints counts by combined degree that add up to 5,199,996, not to the 5,225,420 total it prints, and differ from the report's five-year table (PDF page 75) at eight of eleven degrees. The five-year table adds up to its total, and the later reports that reprint FY2021 differ from it by at most seven veterans at any degree, so the series uses it."
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