FY 2025 Pension Recipients by State

This report provides state-level estimates of the number of Veterans receiving VA Pension benefits as of 9/30/2025. 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.). Data is current as of 9/30/2025. The availability of sex data is limited as some records have no sex available. In the table, there are 158 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 2025 but were no longer pension recipients at the end of FY 2025 is 25,885. These Veterans are not included in the table. Sources: Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Information and Technology, USVETS25 data, Veterans Benefits Administration VETSNET FY 2025 pension data, and Melissa Data (September 2025) geography data. Prepared by National Center for Veterans Analysis & Statistics, www.va.gov/vetdata.