Author: Class Action Counsel
CBC: Federal Government in exploratory talks to settle class action lawsuit over Veterans Affairs $165M accounting error
January 19, 2021
CBC reports on recent steps by the federal government to address an accounting error by Veterans Affairs Canada regarding the calculation of disability awards and pensions. The $165 million accounting error, affecting over 250,000 veterans, began in 2002 and continued undetected until 2010. Read the full story: Federal government looking to settle lawsuit over $165 […]
Class proceeding certified
December 23, 2020
On December 23, 2020, the Federal Court issued an order certifying Manuge v Her Majesty the Queen as a class proceeding. Read the Order.
CBC: MacAulay says he wants to speed up missing pay for shortchanged veterans
March 2, 2019
CBC reports that Veterans minister says he’ll try to speed up repayments for department’s $165M accounting gaffe. Read the full story.
CBC: Ottawa could face four class-action lawsuits over $165M error at Veterans Affairs
February 21, 2019
CBC reports that botched accounting shortchanged more than 250,000 ex-military members. Read the full story.
CBC: Ottawa short-changed more than 270,000 veterans on pensions, disability payments
November 5, 2018
Read the full story.
Benefits Canada news item: Veterans owed $165 million due to accounting error in disability pensions
On November 5, 2018, Benefits Canada reported on the accounting indexation error by Veterans Affairs Canada that forms the basis for this class proceeding. Read the full story.
CTV: 270,000 veterans owed $165 million for disability pension error
On November 5, 2018, CTV news reported that the federal government confirmed that upwards of 270,000 veterans are affected by a calculation error affected disability pensions. Read the full story.
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If you are a member or veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or a spouse, common-law partner, or dependant, survivor, or orphan of such persons and you received, at any time between January 1, 2024 and the present, disability pensions and other benefits from Veterans Affairs Canada that were affected by the annual adjustment of the basic pension under s. 75 of the Pension Act, you may be a class member in this proposed class proceeding. Eligible estates of persons who received these disability benefits may also be class members.
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