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Program directory · Veterans Affairs Canada

Health Care Program and Re-establishment Services

Program code
BBX00 (VAC)
Core responsibility
Financial, physical and mental well being of eligible Veterans.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2010-11 – 2017-18

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 2010-11. 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).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Health Care Program and Re-establishment Services 2010-11: $1.11BHealth Care Program and Re-establishment Services 2011-12: $1.11BHealth Care Program and Re-establishment Services 2012-13: $1.1BHealth Care Program and Re-establishment Services 2013-14: $1.12BHealth Care Program and Re-establishment Services 2014-15: $1.03BHealth Care Program and Re-establishment Services 2015-16: $1.07BHealth Care Program and Re-establishment Services 2016-17: $1.16BHealth Care Program and Re-establishment Services 2017-18: $1.1BHealth Care Program and Re-establishment Services
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
Health Care Program and Re-establishment ServicesThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$8.78B

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

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
2016-17Employees (FTEs) 1,098, against 1,599 in 2015-16 (−31%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2013-14: $1.12B2013-142014-15: $1.03B2014-152015-16: $1.07B2015-162016-17: $1.16B2016-172017-18: $1.1B2017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-14—$1.12B
2014-15—$1.03B
2015-16—$1.07B
2016-17—$1.16B
2017-18—$1.1B

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 1,5802013-14: 1,5362013-142014-15: 1,4432014-15: 1,4732014-152015-16: 1,4582015-16: 1,5992015-162016-17: 9842016-17: 1,0982016-172017-18: 1,1952017-18: 1,1412017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-141,5801,536
2014-151,4431,473
2015-161,4581,599
2016-179841,098
2017-181,1951,141

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

Plan
Actual

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