Emergency Fund to Help Veterans in High Demand, Going Over Budget Every Year Since 2018: Documents

Emergency Fund to Help Veterans in High Demand, Going Over Budget Every Year Since 2018: Documents
Outreach volunteers offer help to the homeless on a -20C night in Calgary, Alta., on Dec. 14, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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The Canadian government supported 501 veterans and their families with over $1 million in funding in the 2022-23 fiscal year, exceeding the program’s annual budget—as it has every year since the Veteran’s Emergency Fund was launched in 2018, according to documents.

“Every year since the program started in 2018 the demand for the Veterans Emergency Fund has been more than the $1 million in annual funding,” said a memo dated Dec. 2, 2022, from Veterans Affairs Canada.