The government has been pushing that narrative ever since they created the new veterans charter in 2006. I would just bring us back to the words of John Todd, who was the designer of the Pension Act in 1919 and was one of the first three pension commissioners.
He wrote:
Those who give public service do so not for themselves alone but for the society of which they are a part. Therefore, each citizen should share equally in the suffering which war brings to his nation. War may make citizens suffer in property or in person. Compensation for property loss lies outside the province of a war pension.
A war pension does not compensate for economic loss through destruction of property, or interruption of business. A war pension compensates only for detriment, bodily or mental, to the persons of those who serve their country in war.
I would also add the small matter of the billion-dollar lawsuit that was based upon deducting Pension Act payments from income, the Manuge case, and the final payments in 2013, wherein the courts recognized that the Pension Act was not for income loss.