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It bears repeating that the Disability Pension and Disability Award are intended to compensate for the non-economic impact (pain and suffering) of an injury or illness.  It's not meant to "live on", since if one is disabled, one is expected to seek gainful employment, or if unable to work, there...

Sure, if you call getting a $50K top-up LSA cheque if you're 100% disabled (and proportionately less if you're disabled to a lesser degree) "worse off". The end effect is the same - all the NVC veterans get a top-up to the 2017 rate.  Now they can move forward on the NVC vets rejoining the...

That is some seriously sound math you have going on there.  ;D My apologies for misinterpreting the legislation; the reduction threw me and I must've mentally ignored it, and it definitely makes a difference. You're a textbook example of what Equitas is all about.  For what's supposed to be...

RobA, in retrospect I think you're correct.  I think that "reduced — for every calendar year from 2016 until the year in which the disability award was received — by a percentage calculated in accordance with the method of calculating the percentages by which the amounts set out in Schedule 3 to...

The year it was awarded to them matters.  The retro award will be the delta between X% of $360K, less the award they got (which is X% of what the maximum was in the year it was awarded), where X is the disability rating.  There will be a bigger delta for those recipients who got earlier awards. ...

I'm not seeing your line of thought. LSA is meant to avoid indexing issues.  Yes, the amount has increased over the years to address inflation, etc., but those who received 2006 awards have (theoretically) had their LSA "indexed" through interest earned (assuming they banked it).  Bringing...

Well, you're correct in stating that between 2006 and present, there have been periodic increases to the LSA.  None of those increases have been retroactive, so the person who got theirs in 2006 got less than someone who got a more recent award.  The top-up will equalize that so that all LSA...

Say what? Trudeau gets credit for levelling out the playing field for all NVC lump sum recipients to a 100% = $360,000 lump sum award through a retroactive top-up payment.  This was an important step to ensuring equity for all NVC lump sum recipients prior to advancing on the return to having...

I think he meant the improvements to those benefits. Yeah, because that matters in the grand scheme of taking the government to task over inaction on the veterans file. 

See post #229 in this thread.

What does ABC have to do with it?  The Equitas lawsuit is completely independent of the government's plans.  It would be unwise to throw away your ace in the hole until you have it in writing that the lifetime disability pension will be restored.

The ability to carry more than 13 weeks of sick leave serves to extend the time one can remain on 100% salary.  For someone who has not used much of their sick leave and therefore has lots banked, it doesn't seem fair to penalize them at the reduced rate of 70% (on LTD) if they have sufficient...

I answered you earlier - you should only post your question once here. The issue of whether a consequential claim would be covered under the Pension Act or NVC is complex.  Call BPA.

From what I've read elsewhere, the government was prepared to reinstate it right away; it was the veterans groups who insisted the time be taken to get it done right.

Tinnitus is awarded without regard to whether it's one ear, the other, or both. Hearing loss is awarded by using dB loss figures from both ears to determine an overall disability rating for hearing loss.

You want to give the Bureau of Pensions Advocates a call.  They're a division of VAC whose sole purpose is to provide lawyers to represent veterans before VRAB, and they'll also help out with Departmental Reviews. Your description of having to decide between a consequential claim and a "wear...

Getting back a little closer to the topic; sick leave for the Public Service is being fought for because it's a benefit that (I'm told) was gained through the collective bargaining process.  I'm told that at some point in the past, the unions forsook a monetary raise in order to gain sick leave...

Control Indicator for what piece of kit?

I meant federal public servants, when contrasted against the military not being able to accumulate leave anymore. Not sure about other departments, but when I'm sick, nobody else picks up my work, and they don't hire a temp to do it.  It's there waiting for me when I get back.  Call that...

Mine was at Stad too - tinnitus assessment was done at Audiology Associates in 2007-ish, prescribed my hearing aid in 2008 in time for a posting to Ottawa.