Thank you.
Ms. Blaney, on what we're doing right now, we decided to look at the caregiver recognition benefit in the context of all other care-at-home supports that VAC offers. We're doing a comparison and trying to identify any gaps in the services that are available to keep veterans in their homes. We couldn't look at just the caregiver recognition benefit.
One of our concerns is that as it's entitled “caregiver recognition”, clarity is needed about whether caregiver recognition is really compensating the caregiver, or whether the government is benefiting from unpaid caregivers.