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Spending program

Disability Benefits

Department of Veterans Affairs · Veterans

Headline figures

Fiscal year 2024–25

$4.2B

54.8% of Veterans spending in 2024–25.

Up $1.2B from $3.0B in 2023–24.

$140per tax filer$102per person

Per tax filer uses 29,965,100 tax filers (2023, the latest count published); per person uses a population of 41,162,593 (2024). An allocation of cost, not a tax bill.

Disability Benefits, by fiscal year

Source and basis

  • GC InfoBase - Open Datasets, retrieved 2026-11-03. Open Government Licence - Canada.
  • Actual spending reported by the department for this program, reconciled to Public Accounts expenditures by vote. Includes operating costs, capital and payments to others.

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