Yes, it's fair for a person of that age.
One thing I will say, which we couldn't do beforehand, is that you'd have to have had that pension in your hand before we could have helped that person, before the new veterans charter. Right now, we can provide a rehabilitation program and income support to that individual whether they have a pension or not. So that pension gateway, which could take six to seven months, is not necessary at the moment.
In terms of the option about whether the individual would get the lump sum at age 24 or have a continuing payment, certainly it's a possibility that we could provide that as an annuity. There's really no reason we can't do that. The individual will get financial counselling, and it's available to all of them to determine the best route.
What you don't want to do is have somebody make that kind of decision in the course of a very agonizing psychological and physical event, which an amputation is. If possible, you want to allow time before that kind of decision is made.
We're certainly open to having the lump sum paid out as an annuity, if that makes more sense.