{"id":2695,"date":"2021-07-07T11:40:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T15:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2021-07-07T11:40:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T15:40:48","slug":"help-is-on-the-way-for-veteran-caregivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/ncva-update\/help-is-on-the-way-for-veteran-caregivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Help is on the way for veteran caregivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\"><div class=\"small-12\">\r\n<p> <strong>July 5, 2021 \u2013 <\/strong> The House Veterans Affairs Committee recently released its report on veteran caregivers entitled, &quot;Caregivers: Taking Care of Those Who Care for Veterans&quot; and forwarded it to the House for Parliament&#39;s consideration.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>It is noteworthy that the committee report provides a comprehensive review of all family and caregiver benefits presently found in Canadian veterans&#39; legislation, and delineates at considerable length the serious deficiencies and shortcomings which currently exist in Veterans Affairs Canada programs and benefits in this context.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In the National Council of Veteran Associations&#39; judgment, the committee recommendations represent a potential major step forward to remedying the insufficient and inequitable treatment of veteran caregivers by Veterans Affairs Canada since the passing of the New Veterans Charter.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Read more in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hilltimes.com\/2021\/07\/05\/help-is-on-the-way-for-veteran-caregivers?i=4aafb447db70438ab158db409276da38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hill Times<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\"><div class=\"small-12\">July 5, 2021 \u2013 The House Veterans Affairs Committee recently released its report on veteran caregivers entitled, &quot;Caregivers: Taking Care of Those Who Care for Veterans&quot; and forwarded it to the House for Parliament&#39;s consideration. It is noteworthy that the committee report provides a comprehensive review of all family and caregiver benefits presently found in(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/ncva-update\/help-is-on-the-way-for-veteran-caregivers\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ncva-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncva-cnaac.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}