Search results

Hm. That must go up incrementally yearly? I'm at 100%, but only got $260,000. Of course, I got mine in 2008. I wonder how they're going to do the retroactivty? As in, will it also include the small annual increases?

Pretty sweet. What was the old ceiling? $260,000?

OK, it looks like the disability award was raised to $360,000. No word if that's retroactive yet. Frankly, I don't see how it can be, since the $360,000 number suggests its directed to appease the Veritas lawsuit, which would not make sense if it wasn't meant to be retroactive

So......no lifelong pension. Doesn't look like the university is a go. The budget DOES increase the size of the disability award. No word on how much, and also if the difference will be back paid to those who already have gotten theirs. Also, "expand the PIA" whatever that means. From the...

In what way is that interesting as it relates to the discussion?

I'm looking for three specific things Trudeau said: 1. Raising the Earnings Loss benefit to 90% 2. Restoring pensions (and what you plan on doing for vets forced to take the lump sum. To ignore them is to create a second tier of vets, those unlucky enough to be hurt during the Harper years...

Yeah low expectations are the best way to handle VAC lol. Of course, you can always request a reassessment later on to be bumped up a level or two. And even the lowest level is still a help. I also wonder if you get the designation of "permanently and totally incapacitated" how that might...

Yeah, so in my situation, they consider the "retroactive date" to be when they get all the information, even in my case where my doctor sent medical info in April, VAC lost it, the doc resent the EXACT SAME INFO in August, and my effective date was August. I'm not sure how they determine the...

Anybody here anything with regards to timeline (or even if they're going to do it)? They were pretty specific about policy changes during the campaign. It seems like this should be one of the first priorities. I'm all for legalizing marijuana, but nobody is being hurt or falling between the...

Hey Dunlop, might this be for your CIB application? Don't want to pry, of course, just wondering as I'm still awaiting my CIB decision. If I recall correctly, your case seemed like a slam dunk. If yours wasnt a yes, no way in hell mine is.

I'm pretty excited about that tuition bill more then anything

[list] Yeah that's why I thought I was entitled to backpay though. Unless I'm misunderstanding, what that is saying your effective date is on the latest between either your application date or a year prior to the decision date. This is basically saying that you get back paid to your...

Someone?.........anyone?......... .....Buehler?.......

For sure. They are politicians after all. I'm optimistic though. Its not like they made vague promises, they made very specific policy goals. Not to mention Trudeau was elected on a "change" platform, I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt . Here's an excerpt from a G & M article...

Recently got approved for PIA after quite a wait. I applied back in December. I had thought that I would be paid retroactive to my application date but was only paid retroactive to my approval date, which was in mid September. A difference of about 10 months. Am I entitled to that and they just...

Just as an aside, Trudeau campaigned on pretty specific policies for veterans. One of them is raising the  Earnings Loss benefit from 70% to 90%.

I would say the way the criteria is laid out, there is no way he would qualify. Its definitely unfair. The criteria require both a "sudden" injury as well as pretty specific times for hospitalization. I was flown into Role 4 in a black hawk off of Highway #1 outside of Kandahar and I doubt...

Congrats. Mind saying what was your specific case (minus any personal/uncomfortable details of course)?

So has anyone been approved for this yet?

That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the help, it's much appreciated :)