Veterans Affairs committee  At this point, I don't think we have enough evidence to understand how widespread the problem is, which is why we've undertaken a review. We'll contact all disability award recipients to understand the extent of the problem and how they have dealt with it. We have a number of cur

Veterans Affairs committee  I think the recommendations we've seen coming out of the various parties have been fairly wide-ranging in terms of what they're looking at. They're indicating gaps in terms of those with catastrophic injuries, whether the financial stream is adequate over time, whether we're prov

Veterans Affairs committee  I'll start, and I'll invite my colleagues, and hopefully I'll hit on some of the points that you're raising. In terms of the first question, on individuals who leave the services, who perhaps didn't have an issue and didn't perhaps have medical evidence on the record, what we ca

Veterans Affairs committee  If they have a need and it's related to service.... In the case of backs, we know that in mental health conditions those kinds of musculoskeletal conditions will receive rehabilitation because we recognize that link with service. So we can right away begin to treat them, provide

Veterans Affairs committee  Pardon?

Veterans Affairs committee  What I'm talking about first is the rehabilitation program.

Veterans Affairs committee  All right, I'll go very quickly. I guess the key point here is that we can offer the individual rehabilitation and we don't need to have a disability award or a disability pension for us to do that. With respect to the lump sum amount and the concerns about mismanagement, those

Veterans Affairs committee  In the previous scheme, it was not a lump sum payment that was paid; it would have been a monthly disability pension. In some cases there would have been specific kinds of allowances, depending on the nature of disability. From that perspective we didn't have large lump sum payme

Veterans Affairs committee  No, pre-charter he's not.... We're looking at the comparisons, and this goes back to Mr. Stoffer's question. The comparison here is of what he would receive now under the new Veterans Charter with what he would have received as a financial stream under the legacy disability pensi

Veterans Affairs committee  No. That is correct. What the new Veterans Charter essentially does is set up an entirely new rehabilitation support scheme. As part of setting up all these rehabilitation supports and approaching the question in such a different capacity, you have to think about the compensatio

Veterans Affairs committee  It's early days. We have probably close to 3,500 clients currently in the program. We've had about 500 complete the program. So it is early to be looking at what kinds of outcomes we're achieving, but we have some early information that is telling us that a large percentage of pe

Veterans Affairs committee  We have provided some information in the deck regarding costs, which looks at expenditures of $12.8 million over the time period the benefits have been in place. When you're looking at those costs, it's important to understand these are new costs, over and above treatment that wo

Veterans Affairs committee  I would start by saying that absolutely I have the opportunity to raise concerns and do analysis and listen to what's being said and form my own opinion based on that analysis and communicate it. Of course, that work is currently ongoing. As you know, we've had a number of repo

Veterans Affairs committee  Under the new Veterans Charter he would have received the disability award, which is the amount that's listed at the 100% rate, the $276,000. In addition to that, he will receive the earnings loss benefit, which is calculated at 75% of the income he was earning at the time of rel

Veterans Affairs committee  The comparison we were asked for is what he would receive now under the new Veterans Charter and what would he have received in the old scheme. You've been hearing a lot about the question “What would I have received if we had maintained the disability pension scheme and associat