Accrual Accounting for Veterans' Benefits: Working Paper 2026-07

F. Matthew Woodward

No 62384, Working Papers from Congressional Budget Office

Abstract: The Congressional Budget Office estimates that under current policies, benefits provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) would cost about $90,000 annually per active-duty service member if accrual accounting methods were used to fund future disability and health benefits that many veterans will receive from VA.This paper describes how CBO arrived at that cost. The results of the analysis are reflected in CBO's infographic, "Atlas of Military Compensation" (www.cbo.gov/publication/62260).Because VA benefits are

JEL-codes: H43 H55 H56 J32 J33 J45 M52 N32 N42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-06-24
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2026-06/62384-Accrual-Accounting-Veterans.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 403 Forbidden

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cbo:wpaper:62384

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Congressional Budget Office Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().