Veterans Well-being Act

Marginal note:Eligibility — veterans

• 25 (1) The Minister may, on application, pay a supplementary retirement benefit to a veteran who has been in receipt of an earnings loss benefit in accordance with subsection 18(4) — or would, but for their level of income, have been in receipt of it — if the veteran is no longer entitled to that benefit.

• Marginal note:Eligibility — survivors

  (2) The Minister may, on application, pay a supplementary retirement benefit to a veteran’s survivor if

  • (a) the veteran, at the time of their death, was in receipt of an earnings loss benefit in accordance with subsection 18(4) or would, but for their level of income, have been in receipt of it; and

  • (b) the survivor is not eligible to receive an earnings loss benefit under section 22.

• Marginal note:Eligibility — survivors

  (3) The Minister may, on application, pay a supplementary retirement benefit to a member’s or a veteran’s survivor if the survivor has been in receipt of an earnings loss benefit under section 22 but is no longer entitled to that benefit.