Program directory · Veterans Review and Appeal Board
Review and Appeal
- Department
- Veterans Review and Appeal Board
- Program code
- BWL01 (VRAB)
- Core responsibility
- Appeals
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
The Veterans Review and Appeal Board’s program delivers the independent review and appeal process for service-related disability decisions made by Veterans Affairs Canada. It provides two levels of redress for Veterans, members of the Canadian Armed Forces and Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and their families who are dissatisfied with their disability pension and disability award decisions. The Board conducts hearings and issues written decisions. The Board conducts reviews and appeals of special award decisions made by Veterans Affairs Canada relating to attendance allowances, exceptional incapacity allowances and clothing allowances; hears the final level of appeal for War Veterans Allowance decisions; and adjudicates compassionate award applications.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
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).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Review and Appeal | This program | 2018-19 – 2028-29 | $95.2M |
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.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | Employees (FTEs) 140, against 102 in 2022-23 (+38%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2024-25 | Employees (FTEs) 169, against 140 in 2023-24 (+21%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2028-29 | Planned employees (FTEs) 138, against 188 in 2027-28 (−27%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
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
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | ≥ 95% | 2020 | 96% | Met |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 95% | 2021 | — This indicator is based on responses to questions from the Board’s Review Hearing Exit Survey, which is administered to applicants in-person following their hearing. During the global pandemic, in-person Review hearings had to be suspended, except for very limited circumstances. Results for this indicator are not available as the survey was not administered. | No result reported |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 95% | 2022 | — This indicator is based on responses to questions from the Board’s Review Hearing Exit Survey, which is administered to applicants in-person following their hearing. During the global pandemic, in-person Review hearings had to be suspended, except for very limited circumstances. Results for this indicator are not available as the survey was not administered. | No result reported |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 95% | 2023 | 97% | Met |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 95% | 2024 | 97% | Met |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 95% | 2025 | 96% | Met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 95% | 2027 | — | Planned |
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $10.9M | $9.9M |
| 2019-20 | $10.9M | $10.7M |
| 2020-21 | $11M | $10.5M |
| 2021-22 | $11.2M | $11.1M |
| 2022-23 | $11.3M | $13.6M |
| 2023-24 | $15.8M | $18.1M |
| 2024-25 | $22.6M | $21.3M |
| 2025-26 | $23.1M | — |
| 2026-27 | $23.1M | — |
| 2027-28 | $21.2M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $16M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 101 | 84 |
| 2019-20 | 101 | 83 |
| 2020-21 | 101 | 85 |
| 2021-22 | 101 | 97 |
| 2022-23 | 101 | 102 |
| 2023-24 | 139 | 140 |
| 2024-25 | 203 | 169 |
| 2025-26 | 203 | — |
| 2026-27 | 200 | — |
| 2027-28 | 188* | — |
| 2028-29 | 138* | — |
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 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $10,903,737 | $10,903,737 | $10,903,737 | ||||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $10,911,155 | $10,911,087 | $10,911,087 | ||||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $10,957,720 | $10,926,230 | $10,935,155 | ||||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $11,215,236 | $11,224,160 | $11,224,160 | ||||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $11,256,654 | $11,256,654 | $11,256,654 | ||||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $15,770,433 | $11,547,776 | $11,547,776 | ||||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $22,575,341 | $22,628,122 | $22,334,538 | ||||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $23,073,258 | $22,777,785 | $20,929,736 | ||||||||
| 2026-27 plan | $23,079,330 | $21,214,141 | $15,962,206 | ||||||||
| Actual | $9,906,100 | $10,696,418 | $10,505,680 | $11,103,961 | $13,620,181 | $18,124,186 | $21,260,606 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
