Again, we've been doing disability benefits for veterans of wars and Canadian Armed Forces service for nearly a century, compensating those from the First World War right through modern-day service. We've been exposed to a range of issues over that period of time, and we've built a model. We have a table of disabilities and supports in place to help veterans who come forward seeking our assistance.
We know approximately how many we might expect in a given year. That number has increased on a regular basis. It goes up by about 10% every year. We've seen about a 75% increase in applications to our programs since 2015, and that goes up annually by about 10%.
Who comes forward and with what kinds of conditions varies a little. We may have, as I noted, increases in applications for mental health benefits. That's been significant over the last number of years. We still deal with a number of physical illnesses or injuries. As a result of that, exposures are something we would look at to see whether or not there are increases in those areas and what we can do to help streamline the process for veterans and our own assessors, in order to make sure those decisions can be made as quickly as possible.