Veterans Affairs committee  Often the case manager can communicate with them about that kind of program as well. They can work through their case manager. They can also work with our disability benefits team, who are more intimately involved in the actual decision with respect to a disability adjudication.

Veterans Affairs committee  Except not every veteran has a case manager, or requires a case manager. Some may apply—

Veterans Affairs committee  —for disability benefits and not require case management support. That's where we need to be careful to say.... It can't just be one stream, necessarily. There may be many that are appropriate for that veteran.

Veterans Affairs committee  Sure. Thanks for the opportunity to clarify. When a veteran has an established pension condition, they do not need to requalify for that pension condition. It's established in their file. They do not need to re-prove that as part of the department's work in helping to support

Veterans Affairs committee  As part of any transition process, we do transition interviews with the serving member, male or female, woman or man. Often, we invite their families to come and join, and their spouses in particular, so they can be aware of not only the benefits that are available for the vetera

Veterans Affairs committee  Given the limited time, I would just say the following. We have updated the policies in accordance with the actual class action lawsuit. I might just ask Trudie to talk about the changes we made to the policies that reflect, I think, the situation.

Veterans Affairs committee  We can certainly provide the committee with that. We have criteria published on the actual website around the well-being fund itself. You're quite right that we have prioritized certain groups over the course of the last number of years. I'll let them give you the details speci

Veterans Affairs committee  We can certainly give you some of the stats with respect to that. With respect to the work that's under way, Melanie was speaking to that a bit earlier around one of the eligibility entitlement guidelines that has been modified on this. We are continuing to work in that area.

Veterans Affairs committee  I don't know that I would call anything a misperception if somebody is feeling a particular way around the supports they're getting. That's a valid point. Clearly, in the past, we had some difficulty in making sure we could make decisions and make advances equally on issues of i

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, with your permission, I'd ask Melanie MacDonald to talk about some of the stuff we're doing on gender-based analysis, particularly as it comes to disability adjudication. She can give you some real, practical examples of the kinds of things we're changing and working o

Veterans Affairs committee  They should come back to Veterans Affairs. If there are individuals who can't get connected through the department, raise it up to somebody who is appearing here, like myself or others and we will look into the individual case.

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, I would offer the following. One is we do recognize their brave service. It is recognized both in terms of their ability to access Veterans Affairs programs and supports that are in place and certainly from a commemorative point of view, on a quite regular basis. The

Veterans Affairs committee  We can certainly come back to you, Mr. Chair, with the information around how each type of service is defined. It is quite clearly articulated in our legislation and on our website as well. We can certainly come back with that information and provide that to the committee.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thanks very much for the question. There's a lot to answer in that. I'm going to ask the director general responsible for that area, Trudie MacKinnon, to do her best to tackle, I think, the seven questions.

Veterans Affairs committee  It's always very difficult to hear about veterans who may be struggling with either getting equipment or getting access to treatment. It's difficult to respond to those specific cases without having some additional detail. I would say that in general we want to make sure of two