Health committee  I am aware that there are people who submitted the reports, but I don't have the number off the top of my head. Sorry.

Health committee  In terms of our challenges, I think it's more the challenges of the persons who are presenting their applications. As many have already mentioned, those who have not been able to meet the criteria have expressed that it's very difficult for them to find documentary proof because

Health committee  The reason we did that is that we are not medical professionals. We wanted to make sure we had not missed anything, so we turned it over to someone who was more qualified to double-check to make sure nothing had been missed.

Health committee  If medical documentation was submitted, they would review all of the medical documents to see if any of the three criteria were met with the submission of that medical documentation.

Health committee  When people submitted their applications, we would write to them if the proof was not sufficient as defined in the program. Sometimes we would speak with them and review the material they presented, and try to help them think of other avenues they could pursue to try to help them

Health committee  There were 167 individuals who received decisions that they did not meet the eligibility criteria. Those were for individuals who submitted applications prior to May 31, 2016, which was the deadline to submit the application.

Health committee  With the criteria we were provided, each individual claim went through three different tiers of analysis. We had someone at our level at Crawford review the person's presentation to see whether or not they presented proof to meet any of the three eligible criteria. If they presen