Riddle me this Stephen Harper Prime Minister of Canada
Edit and note about below: The Court Case only refers to those few who have Veterans' Affairs Pensions. But I do wonder about what I wrote below.
I will explain this in simple terms as to what is happening so that even Stephen Harper can understand.
First you end up fully disabled in the Military.
You have paid into a private insurance company in case you become fully disabled.
You have paid into CPP which is also CPP Disability if you become fully disabled.
The Military gives you 2 percent per year of Service based on your pay if you become fully disabled.
Ok, so now you become fully disabled and released from the military. The Militaries' obligation is to give you 2 percent per year of Service ex. 8 years of service the Military Disability Pension will be 16 percent of your pay. The Militarys' obligation is now over.
So now your out on your own, released from the Military getting your 16 percent. Thats it.
Now you have to apply to CPP Disability of which you paid into. Since you are fully disabled they the Federal CPP gives you an amount based on your years of contribution. If your years of contribution gives you the maximum, CPP Disability subtracts what you get as a Military Disability Pension. Thats not the strange part.
While applying to CPP Disability, you also apply to the Private Insurance Company to which you paid into in case of Long Term Disability. Since you are fully disabled, your accepted. Now the strange part. This Private Insurance Company that you voluntarily paid into in case of full disable-ment decides not to pay you the 75 percent of your last pay. Instead they subtract the above two totals and just pay the remainder.
Since when does a Private Insurance Company not pay what they stated??? Why does this Private Insurance Company have anything to do with the Federal Government????
They shouldn't, and thats what the below Case is about. The Insurance Company should not take into account other plans that you have paid into.
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'Stop ripping off disabled vets,' group urges government
Wed Sep 12, 1:44 PM
OTTAWA (CP) - Federal bureaucrats are ignoring the will of politicians and the forces' ombudsman by continuing to deduct pain-and-suffering awards from long-term disability payments to wounded soldiers, a group of military veterans said Wednesday.
Sean Bruyea, a retired navy captain on longterm disability, says public servants have for four years ignored the urgings of both the military ombudsman and politicians to end the practice.
The deductions - now the subject of a lawsuit in the Federal Court of Canada - are costing more than 4,000 disabled vets who have been deemed "unemployable" thousands of dollars, Bruyea told a news conference.
"This is the only insurance plan in Canada that we know of that is deducting awards for pain and suffering from their longterm disability," Bruyea said.
"All political parties agreed the deductions were unfair. Two different (military) ombudsmen have written five seperate letters and reports to the minister of national defence over the last four years."
The current ombudsman, Yves Cote, last wrote the defence minister in June calling on him to follow the recommendations of a 2003 report entitled Unfair Deductions From (Longterm Disability) Payments to Former CF Members.
The report concluded that it was "fundamentally unfair" to deduct Pension Act disability payments from the military's longterm disability benefits and it urged Ottawa to stop the practice and pay retroactive compensation.
Cote appealed to the government "not to allow the court proceedings to be a reason to avoid swift action."
"My office and I have done all that we can do to bring this matter to a fair and satisfactory resolution," Cote wrote former defence minister Gordon O'Connor. "The ultimate responsibility for ensuring this issue is resolved equitably, generously and without undue delay rests with others.
"I sincerely hope that you, as minister of national defence, will do everything you can to ensure that fair treatment is achieved for our veterans and that it is achieved soon."
One disabled veteran told Wednesday's news conference the deductions have cost him almost $50,000 over the last seven years.
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cheers :) majere (Sgt Disabled and screwed)
