My name is Neil Bayles and I am acting first assistant secretary, rehabilitation and support.
My division looks after three main programs: compensation, income support and rehabilitation. Income support is a form of a pension that's paid to veterans and their partners, very similar to a social security pension. It's a significant component of the $6 billion that is spent in my division. It's about $3 billion per annum.
Compensation benefits are essentially compensation for injury, disease, or death related to service in the military. We pay two main types of compensation: payment to the veteran for injury or disease related to service, and we also provide compensation to widows and other dependants where the member's death is related to service.
The third type of main payment that we make is for rehabilitation. We have a number of rehabilitation programs that aim to restore veterans who have been injured or have a disease related to service. We have several components of that rehabilitation to try to get the veteran back to some level of functioning in the world through medical, social, and vocational rehabilitation.
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