Veterans Affairs committee  Good morning. Could you tell us about the last post fund?

Veterans Affairs committee  I have some information on the last post fund. Currently they administer, for instance, our funerals and burials program on our behalf.

Veterans  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his question. This allows me to highlight the excellent work of the funeral and burial program, which is managed by the last post fund, with which we work closely. Assistance for funerals and burials is offered to veterans who have

Questions Passed as Orders for Returns  With respect to the Veterans Burial Regulations and the Corporation named by the Department of Veterans Affairs Act to administer the Veterans Funeral and Burial program, specifically the Last Post Fund (LPF): (a) what is the annual amount of financial support and funding

Veterans Affairs   with the local legion, Veterans Affairs and officials from the last post fund, Don is heading up an effort to find unmarked veterans' burial plots and ensure that a proper headstone is in place. This has proven to be a difficult task, with Don spending hours every day combing through

Veterans Affairs committee   Association; the Air Force Association of Canada; the Canadian Naval Air Group; the Naval Officers' Association of Canada; and the Last Post Fund. Your support of veterans and their families is exemplary. It is obvious that you care. There should be no doubt that the Royal Canadian Legion

Veterans Affairs committee  . There are also allowances to cover extra costs of disability, such as clothing alterations for amputees. Finally, in partnership with the Last Post Fund, we work to ensure that every veteran receives a dignified funeral. The service is available when the death occurs as a result of a pension

Veterans Affairs committee  You're absolutely right, Mr. Chair. The discussion was around not just the Last Post Fund, which does assist many veterans in getting a proper headstone in their final burial place, not just at Beechwood, but right across the country. The problem was that there just weren't

Veterans Affairs committee   think it was because Mr. Anders had an interest in burial places in the United States. He had talked about visiting them quite a bit. We did have a couple of members go to Beechwood Cemetery. We began a study regarding the Last Post Fund. Is that right?

Veterans Affairs committee   on whether we could see fit to make sure that every single one of those unmarked graves at least has one of these plaques, which we figure would be less than $1,000, maybe as little as $500. We'll see. The other example here is one that was done through the Last Post Fund, through

Veterans Affairs committee  On the Last Post Fund, by the way, I have a person in Maitland, Nova Scotia, who applied for the program, but on appeal he actually saw the same person who denied him the first time. What it is--

Veterans Affairs committee  Okay. I'm moving on to the Last Post Fund. It provides financial assistance, you said, for funeral costs. Could you explain how veterans' families can take advantage of this program?

Veterans Affairs committee  There are two elements to that. The Last Post Fund administers that program. If the death of the individual is related to military service in any way—in other words, in effect, if the individual is pensioned at a degree of 48% or higher—the burial is covered automatically

Veterans Affairs committee   Bay, you'd have to come to Sunnybrook, in Toronto. Now you can stay wherever there is a licensed community bed. It's very popular. Most veterans prefer to stay there. We have a funeral and burial program in cooperation with the Last Post Fund. The slide speaks for itself

First Nations, Métis and Inuit War Veterans  , the Last Post Fund burial privilege and pension relief were discontinued, as aboriginal veterans on reserves were treated exclusively as treaty Indians. This policy was subsequently modified. Families of aboriginal soldiers received the same allowance as other servicemen, but in 1941