long-term disability benefit [ LTD benefit ]

disabled life reserves

long-term disability plan [ long-term disability income plan | LTD income plan ]

long-term disability insurance | LTDI | long-term disability income insurance

long term disability plan [ LTD plan ]

invalidity allowance | invalidity benefit

conversion of invalidity benefits into old-age benefits

Ordinance of 15 January 1971 on Benefits supplementary to the Old Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance | Supplementary Benefits Ordinance [ SBO ]

The $1.5 billion in voted appropriations requires the approval of Parliament and includes major budgetary items such as $725.7 million for implementation of the Federal Court's approved settlement of the Manuge class-action lawsuit concerning the Pension Act offset provision contained in the Canadian Forces Service Income Security Insurance Plan Long-Term Disability Plan, National Defence; $438.4 million to support the continuing implementation of the investment plan in support of the Canada First Defence Strategy and the implementation of payment in lieu of severance pay for members of the Canadian Forces, National Defence; $231.2 million for the writeoff of debts owed to the Crown for unrecoverable Canada Student Loans, Human Resources ...[+++]and Skills Development Canada; $144 million in support of Canada's new training mission in Afghanistan, National Defence; $107.5 million for the consolidation of the High Commission of Canada in the United Kingdom, at Trafalgar Square, Foreign Affairs and International Trade; $100 million for additional grants to fund initiatives in child protection as well as maternal, new-born and child health, Canadian International Development Agency; $95.9 million for Canada's fast-start financing commitments under the Copenhagen Accord, which supports climate change adaptation and mitigation in developing countries, Canadian International Development Agency; and $84.9 million for increases in non- discretionary expenses, such as fit-up, utilities and maintenance, associated with Crown-owned buildings and leased space, Public Works and Government Services Canada.

These former members, who are forced to depend on their long term disability insurance benefits for income, should not lose the financial benefit of the disability pension they are awarded under the Pension Act as compensation for their illness or injury, especially when their injured colleagues who are able to continue serving can collect their disability pensions through VAC and still receive their pay cheques.

Major Henwood strengthened his case by showing members of the Committee a matrix he had developed of the benefits different ranks would receive from the Long-Term Disability Plan.[3] This matrix showed very clearly that the more senior the rank, the greater the benefit likely to be received.

Disability payments are made monthly to contributors who have not yet reached 65 years old and have a chronic and serious disability and to their dependent children who are 18 years old or less or 18 to 25 if they are full time students.