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Veterans Affairs

Ministry Summary

Vote	(thousands of dollars)	2010–11	2009–10	Difference
		Main Estimates	Main Estimates
	Veterans Affairs
1	Operating expenditures	930,168	939,410	(9,242)
5	Grants and contributions	2,432,508	2,364,294	68,214
10	Veterans Review and Appeal Board – Operating
	expenditures	9,944	9,711	233
(S)	Contributions to employee benefit plans	41,210	39,324	1,886
(S)	Minister of Veterans Affairs and Minister of State
	(Agriculture) – Salary and motor car allowance	79	78	. . . . .
(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	. . . . .
	Appropriations not required
–	Capital expenditures	. . . . .	11,103	(11,103)
	Total Department	3,414,105	3,364,117	49,988

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

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

National and International Memorials

This activity is responsible for the delivery of funeral, burial and grave marking benefits, the preservation of memorials overseas and cemetery and grave maintenance, nationally and internationally. VAC also has an international presence in Europe. The administration of funeral, burial and grave marking benefits is carried out in partnership with Last Post Fund Corporation and the maintenance of war graves and Memorials throughout the world is delivered in partnership with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. This activity is delivered through Grants and Operating.

Remembrance Outreach

Remembrance Outreach is responsible for providing Canadians, especially youth, with opportunities to learn about remembrance subjects, via remembrance products, including printed and on-line materials, and activities. The Remembrance Outreach Program also provides leadership of and support to ceremonies and events, in Canada and internationally, that recognize and honour Canada's war dead and Veterans. Through the Partnership Contribution Program, non-profit organizations are able to apply for financial assistance to undertake remembrance initiatives that extend Veterans Affairs Canada's remembrance mandate. A new initiative, corporate engagement and marketing will help the Department extend the reach and capacity of its remembrance efforts. 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, Canadian Forces members and Veterans, Royal Canadian Mounted Police 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 members and Veterans, 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)		2010–11 Main Estimates			2009–10
		Budgetary		Total	Main Estimates
	Operating	Grants	Contributions
			and other
			transfer
			payments
Compensation and Financial Support	73,418	2,051,703	. . . . .	2,125,121	2,057,117
Veterans Health Care and Re-establishment	787,062	. . . . .	353,900	1,140,962	1,162,736
Internal Services	84,680	. . . . .	. . . . .	84,680	82,480
National and International Memorials	7,508	24,842	. . . . .	32,350	. . . . .
Remembrance Outreach	11,431	. . . . .	2,260	13,691	. . . . .
Veterans Review and Appeal Board redress
process for disability pensions and awards	11,461	. . . . .	. . . . .	11,461	11,188
Office of the Veterans Ombudsman independent
review and recommendations on individual
complaints and systemic issues.	5,842	. . . . .	. . . . .	5,842	5,749
Canada Remembers	. . . . .	. . . . .	. . . . .	. . . . .	44,847
	981,400	2,076,545	356,160	3,414,105	3,364,117

Note: Details may not add to totals due to rounding.

Transfer Payments

(dollars)	2010–11	2009–10
	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	1,729,300,000	1,743,600,000
Disability Awards and Allowances	266,000,000	179,800,000
Earnings Loss and Supplementary Retirement Benefit	34,000,000	27,900,000
Last Post Fund	14,979,000	14,819,000
War Veterans Allowances and Civilian War Allowances	14,100,000	15,000,000
Commonwealth War Graves Commission	9,948,000	8,648,000
Canadian Forces Income Support Allowance	2,800,000	2,100,000
Assistance in accordance with the provisions of the Assistance Fund
Regulations	1,710,000	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	500,000	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	2,076,545,000	1,997,006,000
Contributions
Contributions to Veterans, under the Veterans Independence Program,
to assist in defraying costs of extended health care not covered by
provincial health programs	353,900,000	365,200,000
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	2,260,000	2,285,000
Total contributions	356,160,000	367,485,000
Total	2,432,705,000	2,364,491,000

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