Program · Outcome 1: Maintain and enhance the financial wellbeing and self-sufficiency of eligible personsand their dependants through access to income support, compensation, and other supportservices, including advice and information about entitlements
Program 1.1: Veterans’ Income Support and Allowances
This program delivers means-tested income support pensions and other allowances to eligible veterans and dependants under the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986. Income support provides a regular means-tested payment for eligible veterans and their dependants with limited means.
Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 40 reported
$1.7bn
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$56m (−3.3%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Special Appropriations | administered | $1.7bn | $1.7bn | −$56m −3.3% | reported | x_Table 2.1.1 - Outcome 1, row 343 |