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Veteran and Family Well Being Fund

Program code
BWI15 (VAC)
Core responsibility
Benefits, Services and Support
In Departmental Plans
2018-19 – 2019-20 · 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).

2018-192019-202020-212021-22Veteran and Family Well Being Fund 2018-19: $3.4MVeteran and Family Well Being Fund 2019-20: $5.3MVeteran and Family Well Being Fund 2020-21: $3.4MVeteran and Family Well Being Fund 2021-22: $3.4MVeteran and Family Well Being Fund
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
Veteran and Family Well Being FundThis program2018-19 – 2021-22$8.7M

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
2024Budget 2024 measure “Supporting Veterans’ Well-Being”: $6M in total over its years (linked to this program by name, a best-effort match).Budget 2024, PDF page 342

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

No results reported yet.

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: $3.4M2018-19: $3.4M2018-192019-20: $3.5M2019-20: $5.3M2019-202020-21: $3.4M2020-212021-22: $3.4M2021-22
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
2018-19$3.4M$3.4M
2019-20$3.5M$5.3M
2020-21$3.4M*—
2021-22$3.4M*—

Employees (FTEs)

2018-19: 42018-19: 52018-192019-20: 52019-20: 52019-202020-21: 52020-212021-22: 52021-22
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
2018-1945
2019-2055
2020-215*—
2021-225*—

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

Plan2018-192019-202020-212021-22
2018-19 plan$3,418,409$3,418,936$3,419,110
2019-20 plan$3,478,740$3,418,243$3,418,090
Actual$3,430,250$5,289,321

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