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Veterans Affairs
Veterans AffairsMinistry Summary
| Vote | (thousands of dollars) | 2008-2009 | 2007-2008 | Difference |
| Main Estimates | Main Estimates | |||
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| 1 | Operating expenditures | 970,553 | 905,852 | 64,701 |
| 5 | Capital expenditures | 22,862 | 22,800 | 62 |
| 10 | Grants and contributions | 2,353,719 | 2,397,619 | (43,900) |
| 15 | Veterans Review and Appeal Board - Operating | |||
| expenditures | 9,573 | 9,459 | 114 | |
| (S) | Contributions to employee benefit plans | 40,696 | 39,648 | 1,048 |
| (S) | Minister of Veterans Affairs - Salary and motor car | |||
| allowance | 76 | 75 | 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 | . . . . . | |
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| Total Department | 3,397,676 | 3,375,650 | 22,027 | |
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| Note: Details in the “Ministry Summary” and “Program by Activities” tables may not add to totals due to rounding. | ||||
Veterans Affairs
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
Pensions, Awards, Allowances for Disability and Death; 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 Veterans of 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.
Health Care and Re-establishment Benefits and Services
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
Remembrance Programming
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 today. 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 members, RCMP 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 or
members of the Canadian Forces; members or former members of the
RCMP; other clients of Veterans Affairs Canada; spouses,
common-law partners, or dependent children of a person in the
afore mentioned groups, or the survivors or orphans of deceased
persons who qualified under one of these groups; 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 Departments 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.
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| Disability and Death; and Financial | ||||||
| Support | 163,893 | . . . . . | 2,002,764 | . . . . . | 2,166,657 | 2,182,316 |
| Health Care and Re-establishment Benefits | ||||||
| and Services | 812,599 | 22,862 | . . . . . | 325,400 | 1,160,861 | 1,128,443 |
| Remembrance Programming | 24,875 | . . . . . | 23,542 | 2,210 | 50,627 | 51,145 |
| Veterans Review and Appeal Board redress | ||||||
| process for disability pensions and | ||||||
| awards | 13,768 | . . . . . | . . . . . | . . . . . | 13,768 | 13,746 |
| Office of the Veterans Ombudsman | ||||||
| independent review and | ||||||
| recommendations on individual | ||||||
| complaints and systemic issues | 5,763 | . . . . . | . . . . . | . . . . . | 5,763 | . . . . . |
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| 1,020,898 | 22,862 | 2,026,306 | 327,610 | 3,397,676 | 3,375,650 | |
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Transfer Payments
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| 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 | 1,755,900,000 | 1,822,400,000 |
| Disability Awards and Allowances | 190,400,000 | 200,300,000 |
| Earnings Loss and Supplementary Retirement Benefit | 33,800,000 | 30,300,000 |
| War Veterans Allowances and Civilian War Allowances | 16,200,000 | 17,700,000 |
| Last Post Fund | 14,819,000 | 14,819,000 |
| Commonwealth War Graves Commission | 8,648,000 | 8,648,000 |
| 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 |
| Canadian Forces Income Support Allowance | 1,400,000 | . . . . . |
| 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) Returned Soldiers Insurance Actuarial Liability Adjustment | 10,000 | 10,000 |
| (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 |
| 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 |
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| Total grants | 2,026,306,000 | 2,099,306,000 |
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| Contributions to Veterans, under the Veterans Independence Program, | ||
| to assist in defraying costs of extended health care not covered by | ||
| provincial health programs | 325,400,000 | 296,300,000 |
| 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 | 2,210,000 | 2,210,000 |
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| Total contributions | 327,610,000 | 298,510,000 |
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| Total | 2,353,916,000 | 2,397,816,000 |
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