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Pension for Life - The life cycle timeline to 2019

Minister of Veterans Affairs

Pension for Life - The life cycle timeline to 2019

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Another question that we’ve been getting is the timeline. “Why

is it going to take until April 2019 to set up Pension for

Life?” I wish I could get it done faster, in some ways. And in

some ways, no. And I’ll tell you why. Government doesn’t work

nearly as fast as we’d all like it to. But in this instance

maybe that’s not a bad thing. We’re introducing legislation in

the next few weeks, we’re drafting it now. That takes time to

get through the House, though the Senate. Also, you know, it

goes through Committee. And our Veterans Affairs Committee will

look at this, they will call witnesses, they will talk to

people, and that’s a very important part of the consultation

process. And while all that is occurring, we are going to have

to go to seek money to hire people, we’re going to have to hire

more people, we’re going to have to train people to write the

computer programs and to make sure this doesn’t happen without a

glitch. You know, we’ve been contrite as a government, we don’t

always get these very complex computer systems that pay people

regularly, we don’t always get that right. We have an

obligation to get it right though. So we want to make sure we

have time to smooth out those kinks. Will it happen fast enough?

For me, no. But if we can use that time to make sure that when

we roll this out, that it is done as smoothly as possible and

lowers the anxiety level for Veterans and their families,then

that’s not a bad thing. And again, very important that if you

fall in the New Veterans Charter, and you’ve received a lump

sum from 2006 onwards, and you’ve already received it, then this

also pertains to you, it’s retrospective. So we’re going back

and we’re going to figure out how much we owe you and we’re

going to figure that out. That in itself also takes time but

we’re determined to get this right.

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Another question that we’ve been getting is the timeline.

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Veterans Affairs Canada
Recorded:
March 6, 2018
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1:45

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