Veterans Affairs committee  Okay. We have a list of traumatic injuries that make veterans eligible for it. To give you an idea, they include amputations, severe burns, loss of eyesight. It is that level of injuries that is included under it, if that gives you a better idea. For the home loan guarantee program, you asked whether there was another criterion, other than being on active duty.

Veterans Affairs committee  Active duty service members and veterans are eligible to apply for the home loan guarantee, and it is open to any service member serving in the military and also any veteran. You can reuse the home loan guarantee as many times as you want, but you can only have one guarantee at a time, if that makes sense.

Veterans Affairs committee  Particularly if a service member dies on active duty, they are offered our dependency and indemnity compensation. That was mentioned in the briefing under compensation and pension. Once they're eligible for that, they get it for life. That payment right now is at somewhere around $1,091 per month.

Veterans Affairs committee  If you look at slide 2, this gives you an overview of the five benefit programs that we do offer in the benefits administration here in the U.S. The compensation and pension program is by far our largest. About 70% of our employees work in compensation and pension. VBA has approximately 51% of the Department of Veterans Affairs' total budget; however, 50% of that goes to mandatory benefits.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, sir. Generally, this presentation takes about 20 minutes. I'm not sure how you usually do things. I've done these briefings before where questions are thrown in as the briefing goes along. Either way, that's fine with me.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you very much for offering me the opportunity to present on veterans benefits to you today. I really appreciate that. I would like to offer that if we don't have time to get to everyone's questions, I am happy to take any questions in writing and get those back to you or to schedule a follow-up video conference with you.