Disabled Veterans

• Military veterans detail fight with feds to overhaul disability supports

  Veterans, as well as the Royal Canadian Legion and others, say the supposed fixes for their benefits and services have not addressed the underlying inequality.

  Canada

  Nov 9, 2021
  
• Disabled veterans still struggling amid coronavirus as Remembrance Day nears

  Canadians from coast to coast to coast will mark Remembrance Day on Wednesday, once again taking a moment to honour and remember those who offered up their lives to defend Canada.

  Canada

  Nov 9, 2020
  
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• Frustrated Canadian veterans call for auto approval of disability claims during COVID-19

  Veterans and their advocates have been calling for Ottawa to automatically approve roughly 44,000 claims that have been sitting in the backlog at Veterans Affairs Canada, a request that the federal government has so far rejected.

  Canada

  May 17, 2020
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• Trudeau government promising $42M to assist thousands of disabled veterans

  The union representing Veterans Affairs workers says the money will help fix some of the problems, but that much more is needed to both undo years of Conservative-era cuts.

  Canada

  Mar 1, 2018
• N.S. Opposition, disabled veterans and families call on government for help

  "Why do they (veterans) have to go to war with our Canadian government to get help?"

  Canada

  Mar 24, 2017
• Feds offer support for wounded vets without military pension

  The new retirement benefit for some of the country's most severely disabled soldiers would begin at age 65.

  Canada

  Mar 9, 2015