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Supplementary Health Benefits

Program code
BWU08 (INDSC)
Core responsibility
First Nations and Inuit Health
In Departmental Plans
2018-19 – 2018-19 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-272027-282028-29Supplementary Health Benefits 2018-19: $1.44BSupplementary Health Benefits 2019-20: $1.42BSupplementary Health Benefits 2020-21: $1.48BSupplementary Health Benefits 2019-20: $1.57BSupplementary Health Benefits 2020-21: $1.55BSupplementary Health Benefits 2021-22: $1.76BSupplementary Health Benefits 2022-23: $1.95BSupplementary Health Benefits 2023-24: $1.91BSupplementary Health Benefits 2024-25: $1.94BSupplementary Health Benefits 2023-24: $2.17BSupplementary Health Benefits 2024-25: $2.41BSupplementary Health Benefits 2025-26: $2.71BSupplementary Health Benefits 2026-27: $2.17BSupplementary Health Benefits 2027-28: $2.3BSupplementary Health Benefits 2028-29: $2.44BSupplementary Health BenefitsSupplementary Health BenefitsSupplementary Health Benefits
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Supplementary Health BenefitsThis program2018-19 – 2020-21$1.44B
Supplementary Health BenefitsLater program (name match, high confidence)2019-20 – 2024-25$6.83B
Supplementary Health BenefitsLater program (name match, high confidence)2023-24 – 2028-29$4.58B

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

YearWhat changedSource
2019-20Appears to be replaced by Supplementary Health BenefitsCanada Spends name match across plans (an inference)

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Historical: targets against results

Percentage of eligible First Nations and Inuit population who received at least one non-insured health benefit in a year
Expected result: First Nations and Inuit have improved access to non-insured health benefits
72.6%2018-19✓ met

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2018-1970% – 74%201872.6%Met

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2018-19: $1.35B2018-19: $1.44B2018-192019-20: $1.42B2019-202020-21: $1.48B2020-21
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-19$1.35B$1.44B
2019-20$1.42B*—
2020-21$1.48B*—

Employees (FTEs)

2018-19: 4662018-19: 5342018-192019-20: 4662019-202020-21: 3912020-21
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-19466534
2019-20466*—
2020-21391*—

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan2018-192019-202020-21
2018-19 plan$1,347,689,408$1,418,818,127$1,480,334,884
Actual$1,441,791,729

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.