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Post by Wolverine Sun 11 Aug 2019, 9:29 pm

Credibility and integrity of the prime minister in question with veterans' community

June 10, 2019 – Not only has the veterans affairs portfolio been deprioritized, but the prime minister has also betrayed a formal commitment he made to Canada's veterans and their families during the 2015 election campaign.





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Post by Oliver Tue 10 Nov 2020, 8:20 pm

Veterans waiting for answers on disability claims are facing “perfect storm”

as COVID closures add to backlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

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Post by Edgefore Fri 11 Dec 2020, 8:15 am

Submission to Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs' Study on Disability Claims Backlog

December 7, 2020

November 2020 – Further to recent developments, we are posting herewith NCVA's written submission to the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs in relation to the study the committee is currently carrying out with respect to the "Backlog of Disability Benefit Claims at the Department of Veterans Affairs."

As you will note, the substance of this submission is largely extracted from the NCVA 2020 Legislative Report and recent articles we have placed in the national media.

NCVA continues to call for dramatic and innovative steps to be taken by Veterans Affairs Canada to address the current unacceptable backlog and turnaround times experienced with respect to veterans' disability claims.

We remain of the strongly held position that VAC must accelerate the Department's present plan of action to combat the backlog conundrum through the adoption of fast track protocols and an automatic entitlement strategy for outstanding veterans' claims as set out in our submission to the Committee.

As a fundamental tenet of our position, we have emphasized the need for systemic change within the administration/adjudicative structure of VAC as being absolutely essential to resolving the current intolerable situation.

Momentum is building to establishing a new systemic regime within VAC to cure this longstanding problem which has only been intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic.

As a political matter, the government really has no option, in our judgement, but to move in this direction, given the history of the various financial programs rolled out this year to assist Canadians in combatting the consequences of COVID-19.

In this context, the Royal Canadian Legion has issued a statement this week also requesting that the federal government grant to veterans automatic entitlement to disability benefits as an immediate means of decreasing the ever-growing backlog of applications to Veterans Affairs.

In accord with our position, the Legion has emphasized that automatic entitlement would equal the expeditious way our government has provided COVID-19-related benefits to Canadians during the pandemic with errors to be corrected later – concluding that veterans deserve the same treatment.

Canada's veterans should be entitled to nothing less!


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Post by Accer Wed 16 Dec 2020, 12:54 pm

NCVA UPDATE

Re: Parliamentary Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs

December 15, 2020




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Post by Rekert Fri 29 Jan 2021, 4:25 pm

Elephant in the room remains at Veterans Affairs Canada

By BRIAN FORBES JANUARY 25, 2021

The government has failed to meet expectations on its mandated commitment to ‘re-establish lifelong pensions’ so that a comparable level of financial security is provided to all disabled veterans and their families.




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Post by Lincoln Fri 26 Mar 2021, 5:30 pm

Plight of veteran caregivers in
Canada requires immediate
government attention

By BRIAN FORBES MARCH 25, 2021

VAC should follow a 'one veteran-one standard' approach” by adopting a comprehensive program model for all veteran caregivers, thereby resulting in the elimination of artificial cut-off dates that arbitrarily distinguish veterans and their caregivers based on whether the veteran was injured before or after 2006.

Since the enactment of the New Veterans Charter in 2006, the National Council of Veteran Associations (NCVA) has taken the strong position that the government has not sufficiently addressed the plight of veteran families, particularly in circumstances where a member of the family, often a spouse, is required to act in the role of caregiver to a disabled veteran.

The Veterans Ombudsman’s Office recently conducted a study on veteran caregivers entitled “Spouses Supporting Transition” (dated Sept. 21, 2020 – https://ombudsman-veterans.gc.ca/en/node/279 and https://ombudsman-veterans.gc.ca/en/publications/reports-reviews/spouses-supporting-transition-literature-review). This comprehensive OVO report examines a number of highly respected government and academic studies assessing the experiences of caregivers in relation to their support of their veteran spouses to transition from military to civilian life.

The peer-review literature contained in the OVO evaluation makes a series of material findings with respect to this veteran caregiver role: spouses of veterans inherit a significant amount of unpaid labour and suffer negative impacts to both physical and mental health immediately prior to, during, and following the veteran’s medical release; several studies reported negative career impacts, social isolation, and a sense of loss from the spouses’ perspectives as a consequence of military-to-civilian transition; and another study referred to the spouse and family as the “strength behind the uniform” and stressed the importance of the support system for the veteran during and after service.

As a matter of legislative background, the Family Caregiver Relief Benefit (FCRB) was introduced by the government in 2015. This program proved to be clearly inadequate, as it failed to comprehensively provide appropriate financial support for the families of seriously disabled veterans where significant needs of attendance must be provided by a caregiver who often has had to leave his or her employment to do so.

The current Caregiver Recognition Benefit replaced the Family Caregiver Relief Benefit as of April 1, 2018, and provides only a slightly more generous non‑taxable $1,000 a month benefit payable directly to caregivers to ostensibly recognize and honour their vital role.

It is noteworthy that Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) refers to this relatively new Caregiver Recognition Benefit as an indication of the government’s attempt to address the needs of families of disabled veterans. What continues to mystify the veterans’ community is why the government has chosen to “reinvent the wheel” in this area when addressing this need for attendance/caregiving under the New Veterans Charter/Veterans Well‑being Act. For many decades, attendance allowance under the Pension Act (with its five grade levels) has been an effective vehicle in this regard, providing a substantially higher level of compensation and more generous eligibility criteria to satisfy this requirement. In this context, it must be underlined that the spouses or families of seriously disabled veterans often have to give up meaningful employment opportunities to fulfill the caregiving needs of the disabled veteran—$1,000 a month is simply not sufficient recognition of this income loss. VAC should return to the AA provision, which potentially generates in excess of $23,000 per year of non-taxable benefits to those veterans in serious need of attendance, and pay such newly-established benefit to the caregiver directly.

It is not without significance that the Department of National Defence (DND), through its “Attendant Care Benefit” program, has provided reimbursement to seriously disabled veterans of the Afghanistan conflict for payments made to an attendant to look after the Canadian Armed Forces member on a full‑time basis. This benefit has been paid to the CAF member at a daily rate of $100 ($3,000 a month—$36,000 a year) for a maximum of 365 days. This policy also implicitly represents a recognition that the financial costs of attendants far exceed the need to address respite. A serious concern remains in the context of such a veteran’s transition from DND to VAC as to the fact that the financial assistance to such families dramatically drops from the DND program to the current VAC Caregiver Recognition Benefit.

In my over 40 years of working with the War Amps of Canada, we have literally handled thousands of special allowance claims and were specifically involved in the formulation of the attendance allowance guidelines and grade profiles from the outset. We would indicate that AA represents an integral portion of the compensation available to war amputees and other seriously disabled veterans governed by the Pension Act.

It is of further interest, in our judgment, that the grade levels for these allowances tend to increase over the life of the veterans as the “ravages of age” are confronted—indeed, non‑pensioned conditions such as the onset of a heart, cancer or diabetic condition, for example, are part and parcel of the AA adjudication uniquely carried out by VAC under the Pension Act policies in this context.

In addition, we have particularly emphasized with ministerial officials the above-cited concern that there should be more flexibility attached to the current Caregiver Recognition Benefit as, clearly, “one-size-does-not-fit-all.” It is extremely relevant in this area that the grading levels available under the Attendance Allowance provisions of the Pension Act give the department a certain degree of discretion and flexibility as to the attendance needs of individual veterans. In our experience, there are numerous examples where substantial distinctions exist as to the need for attendance encountered by seriously disabled veterans.

It is also highly material that NCVA and the Ministerial Policy Advisory Group are proposing a new Family Benefit for all veterans in receipt of a Disability Award. In accordance with the level of disability assessment, this recommendation would provide further support to families and address, to a certain extent, the cost of the veteran’s disability to his or her spouse and/or dependant children. The amount of this benefit would parallel the payments which have been made under the Pension Act for many years as part of the pension received by a disabled veteran who has a spouse and/or dependant children. Once again, the resultant impact of balancing benefits in this manner under both statutory regimes would be particularly responsive to the current shortcoming in the New Veterans Charter/Veterans Well-being Act insofar as financial assistance to families of disabled veterans is concerned.

It is notable in this context that the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs (ACVA) is currently carrying out a study of federal supports and services to Canadian veterans, caregivers and families.

NCVA has made a formal submission to the committee proposing the following recommendations that need to be implemented by Veterans Affairs Canada to improve the financial supports to veteran caregivers so as to better meet their unique needs:

1. Incorporate the Attendance Allowance provisions under the Pension Act into the New Veterans Charter/Veterans Well-being Act to address the need for financial support of family caregivers of disabled veterans and, at the same time, help to rectify the financial disparity between the two statutory regimes.

2. Fine-tune the concept of Attendance Allowance payable to informal caregivers to recognize and compensate the significant effort and economic loss to support injured veterans and ensure access reflects consideration for the effects of mental health injuries.

3. Create a new family benefit for all veterans in receipt of a Disability Award to parallel the Pension Act provisions in relation to spousal and child allowances to recognize the impact of the veteran’s disability on his or her family.

In conclusion, NCVA takes the position that the plight of veteran caregivers in Canada requires immediate government attention. In our considered submission, VAC should follow a “one veteran-one standard” approach” by adopting a comprehensive program model for all veteran caregivers, thereby resulting in the elimination of artificial cut-off dates that arbitrarily distinguish veterans and their caregivers based on whether the veteran was injured before or after 2006.


Brian Forbes is chair of the National Council of Veteran Associations & Chair of
the Executive Committee of The War Amps.
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Post by Joker Fri 23 Apr 2021, 2:58 pm

NCVA UPDATE

2021 Federal Budget: A Message From NCVA Chairman Brian Forbes

April 22, 2021 – The much-awaited 2021 federal budget was introduced by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on April 19, 2021.





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Post by Riverway Tue 18 May 2021, 12:40 pm

Veterans benefit backlog requires
a bold and creative solution

By BRIAN FORBES MAY 17, 2021

It is self-evident that the departmental measures to increase staffing and resources will not be sufficient on their own to resolve this deplorable state of affairs.

The National Council of Veteran Associations in Canada believes that substantial progress and indeed, a potential breakthrough, is becoming attainable with our crusade to compel Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) to take innovative and creative steps to alleviate the unacceptable backlog and turnaround times for veterans’ disability claims.

The House Veterans Affairs Committee issued its highly material report “Clearing the Jam: Addressing the Backlog of Disability Benefit Claims at Veterans Affairs Canada” on Dec. 11, 2020, following many months of study and stakeholder input. NCVA presented our submission to the committee last November as part and parcel of its deliberations. In order to ameliorate this “perfect storm” impacting the veteran community, we proposed the department should embrace an approach that considers claims at face value and based them on the reasonable evidence provided by the veteran and their family, with the proviso that individual files could be monitored over time and that an “approve and verify” strategy be followed. The medical reports usually required by VAC to support these disability applications have proven almost impossible to obtain through the COVID-19 crisis, a clear reality we have argued must be recognized in assessing the present dilemma.

What the committee found quite clearly identifies the present crisis in VAC adjudication and call for urgent and dramatic change in departmental protocols. Most importantly, from our perspective, the report endorses our position that a form of automatic entitlement or pre-approval—together with fast-track protocols—need to be adopted by the department to address this significant challenge. As we have strongly argued, systematic change is absolutely necessary. It is self-evident that the departmental measures to increase staffing and resources will not be sufficient on their own to resolve this deplorable state of affairs, as underlined by the September 2020 Parliamentary Budget Office report. Indeed, it is fully expected that the backlog will only be exacerbated as increased numbers of Canadian Armed Forces members are medically released when the pandemic concludes.

The committee’s report reflects a comprehensive canvassing of a number of the salient issues surrounding the backlog/wait time problem. Our organization has focused on the following major recommendations tied to adjudicative initiatives:


  • That Veterans Affairs Canada continue to automatically approve applications for medical conditions presumptively attributed to service in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), provide a list of such medical conditions, and expand that list through research


  • That VAC conduct a study on women-specific medical conditions related to service in the CAF and RCMP, and, when applicable, add them to the list of medical conditions presumptively connected to military service


  • That the Veterans Affairs Minister amend the Veterans Well-being Regulations to allow for the automatic pre-approval of disability benefit claims, and that VAC implement a pilot project to identify the risks and advantages of automatic pre-approval of claims


  • That VAC conduct an in-depth review of the Veterans Emergency Fund and support for veterans waiting in the backlog


Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAulay recently gave a formal reply to the committee’s compelling recommendations, setting out what constitutes, in our respectful judgment, a statement of good intentions from the department’s perspective around increasing staffing, technological advances, and more. We remain convinced that a more innovative approach is required to truly address this enduring backlog and wait time crisis in VAC.

In this context, we are somewhat encouraged that the department’s deputy minister and senior officials are ostensibly in the process of seeking legislative or regulatory authority to implement appropriate adjudicative changes required in accord with the committee’s conclusions and our longstanding proposals.

The department has hopefully recognized that there is sound rationale for incorporating the necessary adjudicative protocol amendments as the fundamental means of alleviating this unacceptable backlog and turnaround time conundrum. NCVA will continue to press the department to expedite the implementation of the necessary changes outlined by the committee report.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s 2021 budget is notable in that the government recognized veterans “are three to four times as likely to suffer from depressive or anxiety disorders,” and more than 15 times more likely to experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), than the general population. Veterans are entitled to financial support for mental health care through the Treatment Benefit Program, but they can wait up to two years to receive mental health care while waiting for their disability benefit application to be confirmed, she noted.

The budget proposes $140-million over five years to Veterans Affairs Canada, starting in 2021-22, for a program to cover the mental health care costs of veterans with these conditions while their disability benefit application is being processed. Though this proposal does not comprehensively adopt automatic claim pre approval—our favoured approach—it provides a significant step forward in recognizing that treatment benefits should be granted immediately and not be dependent on the disability application process, which can indeed take up to two years. Thus, this provision is hopefully a springboard to expand this principle so that veterans are not left in a precarious situation for many months or even years before health care or treatment benefits are available to them. The government, through the budget, has determined that mental health care (PTSD, depressive, or anxiety disorders) should be given priority at this time. We think this approach should be applied to all physical disabilities so that veterans in serious need of health care or treatment benefits should be granted the same sense of priority.

Although this stop-gap initiative has the potential to trigger much-needed treatment benefits for those veterans suffering urgent mental health issues, it still begs the larger question as to whether VAC is prepared in relation to the overall adjudication of disability benefits to fully operationalize the requisite systemic measures needed to ameliorate the pervasive administrative and bureaucratic delays currently confronting Canadian veterans and their families.

As we have said throughout the backlog and wait times crisis, desperate times require bold and creative measures. Veterans deserve nothing less during these challenging times where financial and health concerns have been intensified by COVID-19!


Brian Forbes is chairman of the National Council of Veteran Associations in
Canada and the chairman of the War Amps’ executive committee.


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Post by Firestrike Wed 07 Jul 2021, 2:14 pm

NCVA UPDATE

Help is on the way for veteran caregivers

July 5, 2021 – The House Veterans Affairs Committee recently released its report on veteran caregivers entitled, "Caregivers: Taking Care of Those Who Care for Veterans" and forwarded it to the House for Parliament's consideration.

It is noteworthy that the committee report provides a comprehensive review of all family and caregiver benefits presently found in Canadian veterans' legislation, and delineates at considerable length the serious deficiencies and shortcomings which currently exist in Veterans Affairs Canada programs and benefits in this context.

In the National Council of Veteran Associations' judgment, the committee recommendations represent a potential major step forward to remedying the insufficient and inequitable treatment of veteran caregivers by Veterans Affairs Canada since the passing of the New Veterans Charter.


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Post by Dolland Thu 09 Sep 2021, 8:38 am

Veterans will closely follow federal election campaign

By Brian Forbes, Chair of the National Council of Veteran Associations & Chair of the Executive Committee of The War Amps


August 30, 2021 – In these challenging times, and with an election campaign currently under way, Canadian veterans and their families will be closely monitoring all federal leaders to determine which party is prepared to make a substantial commitment to rectifying the shortfalls and inequities which continue to be found in veterans' legislation.

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Post by Spider Thu 11 Nov 2021, 10:00 am

FEDERAL ELECTION IS DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN FOR VETERANS

November 5, 2021

By Brian Forbes, Chair of the National Council of Veteran Associations & Chair of The War Amps Executive Committee





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Post by Lincoln Tue 25 Jan 2022, 5:11 pm


MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN VETERANS’ TREATMENT BENEFITS

January 20, 2022

By Brian Forbes, Chairman of the National Council of Veteran Associations & Executive Chair of The War Amps






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Post by Riverway Fri 04 Mar 2022, 6:31 am


Major Breakthrough in Veterans' Treatment Benefits: A Message From NCVA Chairman Brian Forbes


March 1, 2022 – Please see our article from the March 2022 issue of Esprit de Corps magazine titled  National Council of Veteran Associations (NCVA)  916227195 "Major Breakthrough in Veterans' Treatment Benefits."

I would advise that this important policy initiative was discussed at considerable length at the Deputy Minister's Coffee Group meeting on February 18, 2022.

The Coffee Group sessions include senior officials of Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) and senior Ministerial staff, together with major veteran stakeholders.

As part and parcel of the Coffee Group exchanges, we pressed the department on the ongoing salient concerns surrounding priority issues impacting the veterans' community:

1. We are strongly recommending the extension of the above-cited VAC automatic treatment benefit policy for physically disabled veterans (not just veterans with mental health conditions), with particular emphasis on seriously disabled veterans (including war amputees).

N.B.: The Deputy Minister, Paul Ledwell, is cognizant that this half-measure needs to be expanded as the next natural stage of development by the department.

2. We are demanding assurance from senior officials that the evidence required for eligibility for this new departmental program is appropriately streamlined so that the department's protocols do not stand in the way of the immediate entitlement for the treatment benefit/health care required by the veteran.

N.B.: We received some assurance that this would be addressed in the veterans' health care regulations and policy guidelines relevant to the treatment benefit program – we will want to keep an eye on the actual administration of the program, which commences April 1, 2022.

3. We particularly focused on compelling VAC to implement the extremely helpful proposals of the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs (ACVA) Report 2021 re: the backlog/wait time crisis, with particular reference to the recommendations as to automatic entitlement for common disabilities and the utilization of a Veterans Emergency Fund as a stop-gap measure.

N.B.: The Deputy Minister is mindful of the need to consider the implementation of the ACVA recommendations in order to ameliorate the current unacceptable delays in the VAC system.

4. We pursued the Deputy Minister on the priority need to extend the contracts of temporary employees with the department involved in adjudication and case management beyond March 2022 so as to address the backlog/wait time dilemma – unfortunately, this budgetary provision as of the date of the Coffee Group meeting had yet to be attained by the Minister and senior officials, which was quite shocking!

N.B.: Good news! As I am drafting this report, Minister MacAulay has just announced an additional government investment of $139.6 million over the next two years to ostensibly extend 595 VAC positions to assist in alleviating the backlog. Notwithstanding this announcement, we (along with the Parliamentary Budget Officer) remain of the view that increased staffing alone will not cure the backlog/wait time conundrum and that more fundamental change in strategy is required, as outlined in our NCVA Legislative Program 2021-22.

Our major objective through the Coffee Group dialogue is to keep VAC on the path of systemic change with respect to adjudication of veterans' claims.

As we have learned over the years, the machinery of government does not move quickly. Although positive incremental change is occurring on a number of fronts, the departmental bureaucracy needs to be stimulated and engaged on a consistent basis to finalize many of these significant recommendations.

It is of interest to note that, in his opening comments, new Deputy Minister Paul Ledwell confirmed that the Ministerial Advisory Groups will reconvene in the near future as membership additions are being formulated by the Minister's Office at this time. With respect to the Policy Advisory Group, which I currently co-chair with Andrea Siew, we are awaiting the appointment of a new ADM, Strategic Policy & Commemoration – Crystal Garrett-Baird is presently the Acting ADM and, should she be permanently appointed, she would in all probability become the co-chair to the PAG.

I will keep you posted as to further developments on all of these points.







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Post by Covert Fri 10 Jun 2022, 7:26 am

NCVA UPDATE


Auditor General Slams VAC for Totally Unacceptable Backlog and Wait Times for Vertans' Disability Claims

June 8, 2022 – The Auditor General of Canada, Karen Hogan, tabled a report in Parliament on May 31, 2022, concluding that Canada's disabled veterans continue to face intolerably long wait times and an unacceptable backlog in earning entitlement for deserved financial assistance and benefits from Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC).

Hogan stated in her press conference in Ottawa that she was unimpressed with the efforts made by the department over the last number of years and called for the prioritization of a "realistic plan" to finally ensure that disabled veterans are not forced to wait months or even years for the financial support and compensation they require.


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