At Veterans Affairs, we have a quasi-stat approach for funding. That means we are funded by the Canadian government to respond to and compensate as many veterans coming forward in a given year and qualifying as eligible for our programs as we can. When we speak about the disability benefits program, whether one, 10 or 10,000 veterans come forward in a given year seeking access to compensation for exposures, injuries or illness they've suffered as part of their service, we will have that money from the Government of Canada.
We have an estimate at the start of the year as to how many we think might come forward and how much money we might need. Through things like supplementary estimates and others, we can go back and get more money if needed, if we're processing more applications than is typical, or if we're seeing more applications than is typical.
It's a funding envelope that is flexible to allow us to compensate veterans who are deemed eligible for the program.