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 1.2: Veterans’ Disability Support
This program provides compensation in the form of disability compensation payments and ancillary benefits to eligible veterans for the tangible effects of war or defence service.
Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 42 reported
$1.8bn
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$77m (−4.2%) 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 | $1.8bn | $1.8bn | −$76m −4.2% | reported | x_Table 2.1.1 - Outcome 1, row 345 |
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) | administered | $16m | $16m | −$510k −3.2% | reported | x_Table 2.1.1 - Outcome 1, row 344 |