Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I thank you, gentlemen, for your presentation.
Mr. Cuzner knows the lady I'm about to talk about, Joyce Carter. I'm sure most of us have received mail from her on an almost monthly basis. She's been struggling for quite some time to try to extend VIP to people such as herself, pre-1981.
You talk about 237,000 survivors of veterans who never had VIP services. That seems like a fairly large number.
First, I'd like to know how you arrived at that number. Second, only certain veterans under certain conditions receive VIP, so does this 237,000 include every widowed person of a veteran, whether they were eligible for VIP or not? It seems you're serving 97,000 now, yet 237,000 were not--I'm wondering how you arrived at that figure.