Compensation & Pension: All Veterans who received VA disability compensation or pension payments were included. Veterans who received Special Adaptive Housing benefits were also included in the analysis. Veterans with pending or denied claims were not included. Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) provides Compensation and Pension disability benefits.

This visualization is based on a data set that consists of one row per federal fiscal year (FY) from FY 2006 - FY 2019, and reports the number and percent of users each of seven VA programs for Veterans who were in service at any time between August 2, 1990, and September 10, 2001, the dates of the Pre-9/11 Gulf War era. The denominator of percent is the number of living Veterans in the FY. The number and percent of users is cumulative since FY 2006. Thus, for example FY 2007 data includes all Veterans who served in the era, were alive at some time during FY 2007 and participated in the program at any time during FY 2006 and FY 2007.

This data set consists of one row per federal fiscal year (FY) from FY 2005 - FY 2019, and reports the number and percent of users each of seven VA programs for Veterans who were in service at any time between August 2, 1990, and September 10, 2001, the dates of the Pre-9/11 Gulf War era. The denominator of percent is the number of living Veterans in the FY. The number and percent of users is cumulative since FY 2005. Thus, for example FY 2006 data includes all Veterans who served in the era, were alive at some time during FY 2006 and participated in the program at any time during FY 2005 and FY 2006.

This visualization is based on a data set that consists of one row per federal fiscal year (FY) from FY 2010 - FY 2019, and reports the number of users, non-users and percent users for each of eight VA programs for Veterans who were in service at any time between August 2, 1990, and September 10, 2001, the dates of the Pre-9/11 Gulf War era. Data for the Disability Compensation and Disability Pension programs are reported separately as well as together under the name Compensation or Pension.

This data set consists of one row per federal fiscal year (FY) from FY 2010 - FY 2019, and reports the number of users, non-users and percent users for each of eight VA programs for Veterans who were in service at any time between August 2, 1990, and September 10, 2001, the dates of the Pre-9/11 Gulf War era. Data for the Disability Compensation and Disability Pension programs are reported separately as well as together under the name Compensation or Pension.

Background information and charts concerning the cohort of veterans who served from the time of the Persian Gulf War (1990-1991) to September 11, 2001. The story also invites all veterans to avail themselves of all VA benefits for which they qualify.