No. I would say there's no incentive to do that. In fact, all our benefit payments are statutory, so the department is held harmless, in a financial sense. In other words, we have a fixed budget for our operations in terms of our staff and IT systems and things like that, but the payments to veterans are statutory. If someone has an entitlement, that person gets paid regardless. You can see from the statutory payments over the last several years that there have been quite large increases.
On May 8th, 2007. See this statement in context.