Veterans Affairs committee  In the last fiscal year, the program expenses regarding disability benefits were $1.696 billion for more than 115,000 veterans and survivors. Regarding the trend in the last few years, we'll get the numbers to you, but it's more or less that amount.

Veterans Affairs committee  We provide financial assistance to over 8,700 veterans located in 1,750 nursing homes and long-term care facilities across Canada.

Veterans Affairs committee  If they are eligible for long-term care, either in a community or in a contract bed or facility, and they are on a wait list for a bed, then they are entitled to the veterans independence program for the time they are on the wait list. We would provide personal care and assistanc

Veterans Affairs committee  The purpose of the veterans independence program is to assist the veteran to remain independent in his home as much as possible.

Veterans Affairs committee  We will ask our research group what is available. As I mentioned a little earlier, we are here to describe what we have in place. If I am not mistaken, your committee will be hearing from witnesses from other countries who will explain what they have in place. That being said, w

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes.

Veterans Affairs committee  I would just like to correct that. If he is only getting one, it's probably because he only needed one aspect of the program. Please keep that in mind. It's not that he didn't need it and we didn't give it to him. It may be that he might not have needed that component at the time

Veterans Affairs committee  No, we always paid based on what receipts were submitted by the veterans. What we changed in the procedure is that if the veterans are entitled to reimbursement for health-related travel, they are no longer required to submit their benefits. We asked them to keep them for a year

Veterans Affairs committee  Normally it's for travel within Canada, but we'd have to research to see if we had recent cases where travel abroad was required. I can't answer.

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't have the number at hand, but I will make sure to get the statistics to you regarding how many veterans are currently being treated by the network of OSI clinics, and also how many are using this new technology. We'll get those numbers to you.

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't have the exact number, but I can tell you that there are more than 4,000 providers.

Veterans Affairs committee  Before the Veterans Charter, what we had seen.... As I mentioned, the average age of release is around 35. The average age is mid to late thirties. With the suite of programs we had before, we only had the disability...the pension program, which was the monthly pension. There was

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm not the best person to answer that question—

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm sorry, sir, but we'll make sure that you get something, a prepared response.

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't have the breakdown, but that's something we'll take note of, and we'll get you details of how many receive the earnings loss benefit.