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Budget 2016 & BILL C-12

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Post by 6608 Tue 22 Mar 2016, 16:20

Here are the main points.................

Supporting Canada's Veterans
Veterans and their families have earned Canadians' respect and gratitude. The Government will give back to those who have given so much in service to all Canadians. Budget 2016 proposes to restore critical access to services for veterans as well as ensure the long-term financial security of disabled veterans. Budget 2016 also proposes measures to honour the service, sacrifice and accomplishments of those who served in the military.

Enhancing Services for Veterans

Canada's veterans and their families deserve our care, compassion and respect. To better support veterans where they live, Budget 2016 proposes to reopen and staff service offices in Charlottetown, Sydney, Corner Brook, Windsor, Thunder Bay, Saskatoon, Brandon, Prince George and Kelowna, open an additional office in Surrey, and expand outreach to veterans in the North by working with local partners. This will make it easier for veterans to access services across the country.

Budget 2016 also proposes to hire additional case managers to reduce the client-to-case manager ratio to no more than 25:1. Case managers represent the first line of intervention to help veterans in their rehabilitation process and to coordinate referrals to health care providers. Reducing the client-to-case manager ratio will help veterans make successful transitions to civilian life.

To implement these measures, Budget 2016 proposes to provide $78.1 million over five years, starting in 2016–17.

Financial Support for Veterans

Since the creation of the New Veterans Charter in 2006, the range of programs, services and benefits under the Charter have been gradually updated over time. However, veterans groups as well as the Veterans Ombudsman have noted that the Charter needs to be enhanced to meet the needs of modern-day veterans. Budget 2016 therefore proposes significant enhancements to financial benefits for modern-day veterans. The proposed investment includes:

Increasing the Disability Award (maximum increased to $360,000 in 2017) for injuries or illnesses caused or worsened by military service, and aligning it with other New Veterans Charter benefits by indexing it to inflation. Higher Awards would be paid retroactively to all veterans who have received an Award since the introduction of the New Veterans Charter in 2006.
Expanding access to higher grades of the Permanent Impairment Allowance to better support veterans who have had their career options limited by a service-related illness or injury. The potential impact of the permanent and severe impairments on veterans' career advancement opportunities would be considered in determining the appropriate level of financial support. The benefit would also be renamed Career Impact Allowance to better reflect the intent of the program.
Increasing the Earnings Loss Benefit to provide income replacement of 90 per cent of gross pre-release military salary for injured veterans participating in Veterans Affairs Canada's rehabilitation or vocational assistance program or with injuries preventing them from suitable and gainful employment. The indexation of this benefit would also no longer be capped at 2 per cent and would be allowed to keep pace with inflation. Finally, the calculation of the minimum benefit would be amended to be based on a senior private's salary instead of a basic corporal's salary.
These measures represent a significant investment that would greatly improve income support to disabled veterans, including both veterans transitioning to the civilian workforce as well as those with injuries preventing them from suitable and gainful employment. In particular, these measures would ensure that disabled veterans who are unable to return to the workforce because of their injuries receive higher lifelong financial support.

In consultation with the veterans' community, the Government also understands there is a significant desire to better design veterans' financial support programs going forward—and that the Government should take the appropriate time to work with veterans to ensure programs meet the needs of those injured in the line of duty.

Over the next year, the Government will work with the veterans' community to examine the best way to streamline and simplify the system of financial support programs currently offered by Veterans Affairs Canada and National Defence for veterans and their families. The overall objective of this work will be to ensure that the Government delivers programs and services in a way that is veterans-centric and facilitates a seamless and successful transition from military to civilian life.

Based on current projections of demand for the programs, the Government expects that $1.6 billion over five years, starting in 2016–17, would flow to veterans and their families in the form of higher direct payments. However, public sector accounting standards require that the present value of all increased future payments to eligible recipients be recognized up front when changes are made to veterans benefit plans. The budgetary expense associated with the increase in benefits for eligible recipients amounts to $5.6 billion over six years, starting in 2015–16.

Last Post Fund

The Government of Canada has a duty to remember the service and sacrifice of those who served in the military.

The Last Post Fund program provides financial assistance to the estates of eligible deceased veterans towards the cost of burial and for funeral services. To expand eligibility for the program to more families of low-income veterans, Budget 2016 proposes to increase the estate exemption for the Last Post Fund from roughly $12,000 to roughly $35,000, and apply an annual cost of living adjustment to the estate exemption going forward.

Based on current projections of demand for the program, the Government expects that $3.4 million over five years, starting in 2016–17, would flow to the families of veterans in the form of higher direct payments. However, public sector accounting standards require that the present value of all increased future payments to eligible recipients be recognized up front when changes are made to veterans benefit plans. The budgetary expense associated with the increase in benefits for eligible recipients amounts to $25.9 million over six years, starting in 2015–16.

Commemoration

Budget 2016 proposes to merge the Community War Memorial Program with the Commemorative Partnership Program, and to expand the scope of the Commemorative Partnership Program to allow funding for the building of new community war memorials. This will streamline the application process for Canadians and community groups to gain access to funding opportunities available for commemorative activities for veterans.

Invictus Games

On March 16, His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Wales announced that Toronto will host the 2017 Invictus Games for ill and injured veterans. The Invictus Games is an international sporting event that promotes the well-being and rehabilitation of our veteran population, and the Government is proud to show its support for the organization of the Games in Canada. Budget 2016 proposes to reallocate funding of $4 million over two years, starting in 2015–16, and to provide new funding of $6 million in 2016–17 to support the organization of the Games.


http://www.budget.gc.ca/2016/docs/plan/toc-tdm-en.html



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Post by Guest Tue 22 Mar 2016, 16:33

FAILURE !

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Post by bigrex Tue 22 Mar 2016, 16:45

So no monthly pension, but we are going to be getting even more lump sum payments back to 2006? Does that mean that that when they do get around to bringing back the monthly pension, we will have to pay back even more?

Also, when are these changes going to be made? Are we going to have to wait several months for these increases to hit our accounts?
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Post by Guest Tue 22 Mar 2016, 16:51

time for that rum . bring on the dancing girls !

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Post by 6608 Tue 22 Mar 2016, 16:57

The change to minimum ELB will mean the increase to 90% will not be worth much if anything for the people on the low end. that's about a 600 dollar monthly reduction (2013 pay scale) from basic corporal to private.


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Post by Guest Tue 22 Mar 2016, 17:01

yup stupid .

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Post by BinRat Tue 22 Mar 2016, 17:02

ya I seen that, and then checked the pay rates and it's a big difference, so are they not then gonna keep it that $42K is minimum amount

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Post by K9 Tue 22 Mar 2016, 17:02

For alot of people, going from 75% to 90% will change nothing, those who got out before the salary's raise got 75% of basic cpl, now, : "Finally, the calculation of the minimum benefit would be amended to be based on a senior private's salary instead of a basic corporal's salary.", that is almost 8000$ less so the change means nothing.
If it was in the Budget, it means it was good for them.
The raise to 360 000$ for 2017 is better then nothing but still not enough for many.
That's my tought!
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Post by BinRat Tue 22 Mar 2016, 17:05

So that $360K if you for example got 10% award, or say $30K payout, and next year it goes to this $360K does that mean one would receive a back dated check of $6K the different, in which one would get $36K if they applied or got the award next year

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Post by K9 Tue 22 Mar 2016, 17:08

"Higher Awards would be paid retroactively to all veterans who have received an Award since the introduction of the New Veterans Charter in 2006."
Looks like it!
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Post by BinRat Tue 22 Mar 2016, 17:15

Because this is gonna be a LARGE discussion, why not anyone who wants to chat about this Join me in the Chatroom at top of the Page

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Post by bigrex Tue 22 Mar 2016, 17:22

6608, I don't like them changing the rank level, since it is a difference of several thousand per year. The things that lessens the blow is the realization that it is still more than what is currently offered as a minimum, that very few people are only getting the minimum, and that the $42000 is based on pay rates that have been frozen since 2013, and that hopefully CF pay rates will get a significant boost with this budget, which will further boost the minimum ELB.
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Post by Pipes Tue 22 Mar 2016, 17:30

So is the new $360 000 max also going to change for the Pension guys? Are the two linked? Or are Veterans still going to have two standards?

I think that the Equitas Lawsuit is going to go through as the LTD needs to be aligned with Workers comp where they get LTD, not taxed and not clawed back. Why are we still being treated as second class citizens? Go Equitas!

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Post by pinger Tue 22 Mar 2016, 17:44

I would give this budget overall a C minus. And believe it or not I was expecting much worse.

Tell ya what though, except for the re-opening offices, 400 hires, and those clinics they needn't have mentioned our file AT ALL... If they were to implement the monthly pensions within 6 month's.

Monthly lifelong pensions weren't even mentioned in the budget. It wasn't just
obvious to me, It was almost... eerie.
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Post by Guest Tue 22 Mar 2016, 17:58

a big fracking F from me . and a lot of the possible comments on this budget going through my mind right now have a lot of F's so its a fitting grade I think.

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