The FY2027 President's Budget requests $257.19B for Compensation and Pensions (036-0102), within Veterans Affairs's Benefits Programs account. That is up 10% on the FY2026 figure of $233.09B, which is the enacted appropriation.
FY2025–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | enacted | $212,553.0M |
| FY2026 | enacted | $233,090.0M |
| FY2027 | request | $257,186.0M |
Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Veterans Affairs discretionary budget authority
From the OMB Public Budget Database — clean, summable, and the figure to cite for an agency total. It is the whole of Veterans Affairs's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
Funds disability compensation and pension payments to or on behalf of Veterans and their survivors, along with burial benefits and the contract medical examination program.
Extracted from Veterans Affairs Programs, p. 78. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
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