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 1.4: Assistance and Other Compensation for Veterans and Dependants
This program delivers other allowances and assistance to eligible veterans and dependants under the VEA and related legislation, including home insurance, funeral benefits, prisoner of war ex gratia payments, and payments on behalf of Commonwealth and allied countries. Assistance is also provided to the ex-service community via Building Excellence in Support and Training grants and the Advocacy Training and Development Program.
Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 44 reported
$88m
2026-27 Budget estimate
−$1.7m (−1.9%) 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 Accounts | departmental | $74m | $62m | −$11m −15.3% | reported | x_Table 2.1.1 - Outcome 1, row 349 |
| Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1) | administered | $11m | $24m | +$12m +109.6% | reported | x_Table 2.1.1 - Outcome 1, row 347 |
| Special Appropriations | administered | $4.8m | $2.0m | −$2.8m −58.2% | reported | x_Table 2.1.1 - Outcome 1, row 348 |