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Veterans Affairs
Ministry Summary
| Vote | (thousands of dollars) | 2009–10 | 2008–09 | Difference |
| Main Estimates | Main Estimates | |||
| Veterans Affairs | ||||
| 1 | Operating expenditures | 939,410 | 970,553 | (31,143) |
| 5 | Capital expenditures | 11,103 | 22,862 | (11,759) |
| 10 | Grants and contributions | 2,364,294 | 2,353,719 | 10,575 |
| 15 | Veterans Review and Appeal Board – Operating | |||
| expenditures | 9,711 | 9,573 | 138 | |
| (S) | Contributions to employee benefit plans | 39,324 | 40,696 | (1,372) |
| (S) | Minister of Veterans Affairs - Salary and motor car | |||
| allowance | 78 | 76 | 2 | |
| (S) | Veterans Insurance Actuarial Liability Adjustment | 175 | 175 | . . . . . |
| (S) | Repayments under section 15 of the War Service Grants | |||
| Act of compensating adjustments made in accordance | ||||
| with the terms of the Veterans’ Land Act | 10 | 10 | . . . . . | |
| (S) | Returned Soldiers Insurance Actuarial Liability | |||
| Adjustment | 10 | 10 | . . . . . | |
| (S) | Re-Establishment Credits under section 8 of the War | |||
| Service Grants Act | 2 | 2 | . . . . . | |
| Total Department | 3,364,117 | 3,397,676 | (33,559) | |
Note: Details may not add to totals due to rounding.
Strategic Outcome
Eligible Veterans and other clients achieve their optimum level of well-being through programs and services that support their care, treatment, independence, and re-establishment.
Program Activity Descriptions
Veterans Compensation and Financial Support
Veterans Affairs provides, upon eligibility, pensions or awards for disability or death and financial support as compensation for hardships arising from disabilities and lost economic opportunities. Veterans Affairs has a comprehensive and integrated range of compensation and wellness programs to support its clients. These clients include: Veterans of the First World War, the Second World War, and the Korean War, Merchant Navy Veterans, Canadian Forces Veterans, Canadian Forces members, spouses, common-law partners, certain civilians, and survivors and dependants of military and civilian personnel. Veterans Affairs also administers disability pensions for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police under a Memorandum of Understanding. This Program Activity is delivered through operating and grants.
Veterans Health Care and Re-establishment
Veterans Affairs provides health benefits, a Veterans Independence Program, long-term care, and rehabilitation and re establishment support to eligible Veterans and others. The Health Care Program is designed to enhance the quality of life of Veterans Affairs’ clients, promote independence, and assist in keeping clients at home and in their own communities by providing a continuum of care. The Program Activity is delivered through operating and contributions.
Strategic Outcome
Canadians remember and demonstrate their recognition of all those who served in Canada’s efforts during war, military conflict and peace.
Program Activity Descriptions
Canada Remembers
Remembrance Programming keeps alive the achievements and sacrifices made by those who served Canada in times of war, military conflict and peace; engages communities in remembrance of these achievements and sacrifices; and, promotes an understanding of their significance in Canadian life as we know it . This activity is delivered through contributions, grants and operating.
Strategic Outcome
Fair and effective resolution of disability pension, disability award, and War Veterans Allowance appeals from Canada’s war Veterans, eligible Canadian Forces Veterans and still-serving members, RCMP clients, qualified civilians and their families.
Program Activity Descriptions
Veterans Review and Appeal Board redress process for disability pensions and awards Provides Canada’s war Veterans, eligible Canadian Forces Veterans and still-serving members, Royal Canadian Mounted Police clients, qualified civilians and their families with full opportunity to request review and appeal hearings to ensure a fair adjudicative process for disability pension, disability award, and War Veterans Allowance claims.
Strategic Outcome
Ombudsman recommendations advance Veterans Affairs’ fair and equitable treatment of eligible clients.
Program Activity Descriptions
Office of the Veterans Ombudsman independent review and recommendations on individual complaints and systemic issues.
Provides War Service Veterans, Veterans and serving members of the Canadian Forces (Regular and Reserve), members and former members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, spouses, common-law partners, survivors and primary caregivers, other eligible dependants and family members, other eligible clients and representatives of the afore-mentioned groups with the opportunity to request independent reviews of their complaints by an impartial individual who was not part of the original decision-making process. The Veterans Ombudsman has the mandate to review and address complaints by clients and their representatives arising from the application of the provisions of the Veterans Bill of Rights; to identify and review emerging and systemic issues related to programs and services provided or administered by the Department or by third parties on the Department’s behalf that impact negatively on clients; to review and address complaints by clients and their representatives related to programs and services provided or administered by the Department or by third parties on the Department’s behalf, including individual decisions related to the programs and services for which there is no right of appeal to the Board; to review systemic issues related to the Board; and to facilitate access by clients to programs and services by providing them with information and referrals.
Strategic Outcome
The following program activity supports all strategic outcomes within this organization.
Program Activity Descriptions
Internal Services
Internal Services are groups of related activities and resources that are administered to support the needs of programs and other corporate obligations of an organization. These groups are: Management and Oversight Services; Communications Services; Legal Services; Human Resources Management Services; Financial Management Services; Information Management Services; Information Technology Services; Real Property Services; Materiel Services; Acquisition Services; and Travel and Other Administrative Services. Internal Services include only those activities and resources that apply across an organization and not to those provided specifically to a program.
Program by Activities
| (thousands of dollars) | 2009–10 Main Estimates | 2008–09 | ||||
| Budgetary | Total | Main Estimates | ||||
| Operating | Capital | Grants | Contributions | |||
| and other | ||||||
| transfer | ||||||
| payments | ||||||
| Veterans Compensation and Financial | ||||||
| Support | 83,653 | . . . . . | 1,973,464 | . . . . . | 2,057,117 | 2,166,657 |
| Veterans Health Care and Re-establishment | 786,433 | 11,103 | . . . . . | 365,200 | 1,162,736 | 1,160,861 |
| Internal Services | 82,480 | . . . . . | . . . . . | . . . . . | 82,480 | . . . . . |
| Canada Remembers | 19,020 | . . . . . | 23,542 | 2,285 | 44,847 | 50,627 |
| Veterans Review and Appeal Board redress | ||||||
| process for disability pensions and | ||||||
| awards | 11,188 | . . . . . | . . . . . | . . . . . | 11,188 | 13,768 |
| Office of the Veterans Ombudsman | ||||||
| independent review and | ||||||
| recommendations on individual | ||||||
| complaints and systemic issues. | 5,749 | . . . . . | . . . . . | . . . . . | 5,749 | 5,763 |
| 988,523 | 11,103 | 1,997,006 | 367,485 | 3,364,117 | 3,397,676 | |
Note: Details may not add to totals due to rounding.
Transfer Payments
| (dollars) | 2009–10 | 2008–09 |
| Main Estimates | Main Estimates | |
| Grants | ||
| Pensions for disability and death, including pensions granted under the | ||
| authority of the Civilian Government Employees (War) Compensation | ||
| Order, P.C. 45/8848 of November 22, 1944, which shall be subject to | ||
| the Pension Act ; for compensation for former prisoners of war under | ||
| the Pension act , and Newfoundland special awards | 1,743,600,000 | 1,755,900,000 |
| Disability Awards and Allowances | 179,800,000 | 190,400,000 |
| Earnings Loss and Supplementary Retirement Benefit | 27,900,000 | 33,800,000 |
| War Veterans Allowances and Civilian War Allowances | 15,000,000 | 16,200,000 |
| Last Post Fund | 14,819,000 | 14,819,000 |
| Commonwealth War Graves Commission | 8,648,000 | 8,648,000 |
| Canadian Forces Income Support Allowance | 2,100,000 | 1,400,000 |
| Assistance in accordance with the provisions of the Assistance Fund | ||
| Regulations | 1,690,000 | 1,690,000 |
| Treatment Allowances | 1,415,000 | 1,415,000 |
| Payments under the Flying Accidents Compensation Regulations | 750,000 | 750,000 |
| Assistance to Canadian Veterans – Overseas District | 700,000 | 700,000 |
| Children of Deceased Veterans Education Assistance | 241,000 | 241,000 |
| (S) Veterans Insurance Actuarial Liability Adjustment | 175,000 | 175,000 |
| Payments of Gallantry Awards | 71,000 | 71,000 |
| United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Korea | 70,000 | 70,000 |
| (S) Repayments under section 15 of the War Service Grants Act of | ||
| compensating adjustments made in accordance with the terms of the | ||
| Veterans’ Land Act | 10,000 | 10,000 |
| (S) Returned Soldiers Insurance Actuarial Liability Adjustment | 10,000 | 10,000 |
| Canadian Veterans Association of the United Kingdom | 5,000 | 5,000 |
| (S) Re-Establishment Credits under section 8 of the War Service Grants | ||
| Act | 2,000 | 2,000 |
| Total grants | 1,997,006,000 | 2,026,306,000 |
| Contributions | ||
| Contributions to Veterans, under the Veterans Independence Program, | ||
| to assist in defraying costs of extended health care not covered by | ||
| provincial health programs | 365,200,000 | 325,400,000 |
| Contributions under the Partnerships Contribution Program, to | ||
| organizations, institutions and other levels of government, in support | ||
| of projects related to the health and well-being of the veteran | ||
| population, and commemoration activities and events | 2,285,000 | 2,210,000 |
| Total contributions | 367,485,000 | 327,610,000 |
| Total | 2,364,491,000 | 2,353,916,000 |