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Canadian Veterans Legal Assistance Overview:
- Who: Canadian veterans
- What: Money from a 2019 settlement is going to help veterans navigate claims and applications through the Veterans Legal Assistance Foundation.
- Where: Canada
Money left over from a 2019 settlement between Canada and World War II, Korean War, and Armed Forces veterans will now be going to helping all Canadian veterans overcome the hurdles of accessing benefits.
The Veterans Legal Assistance Foundation (VLAF) has announced that it will be using funds it got from the settlement to offer free advisory services to military and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) veterans.
The assistance will help Canadian veterans navigate administrative challenges when attempting to access support for matters like treatments and living expenses, it said.
“The foundation… will assist veterans with ongoing delays in accessing support and to address the reality that many veterans are suffering from physical and mental illness, and often living in poverty, including homelessness and food insecurity,” the foundation said in a press release.
The VLAF is a charitable organization promoting access to justice for current or former members of the Canadian Armed Forces and the RCMP. VLAF previously paid for veterans’ eligible legal bills up to $10,000, often for disability-related or other claims that benefit veterans broadly.
Going forward, the VLAF says it will also help veterans access support for things like treatments and living expenses, even services as seemingly-simple as helping a veteran navigate a website.
Class Action Settlement Funds Services to Canadian Veterans
The new, free service is funded through money left over from the Toth v. Canada settlement of 2019, of which more than $1 million went to VLAF in two phases.
The settlement challenged the validity of offsets made by the Government of Canada to the Disability Pension before May 2012.
In May 2012, the Government of Canada announced it would end the practice of offsetting Disability Pension benefits payable under the Pension Act from certain veteran income support programs.
The class action challenged the validity of the offsets made before May 2012, and ended with a $100-million settlement agreement.
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Grandfather died in poverty in 2014, they did not even pay for his tombstone and he hung onto that certificate for 70 years… military treated him badly, the family grew up in poverty, he had shell shock and served 2 times in ww2 and was injured. Denied a pension until 87 years of age. No money honey, just a kick in the @zz