Veterans Well-being Act

Marginal note:Amount of pain and suffering compensation

• 50 (1) Subject to section 56.4, the monthly amount of pain and suffering compensation that is payable under section 45, 47 or 48 to a member or a veteran shall be determined by the formula

  A – B

  where

  A

  is the amount set out in column 3 of Schedule 3 that corresponds to the extent of disability, as set out in column 2 of that Schedule, that is the total of the member’s or veteran’s extent of disability for which a disability award has been paid or for which pain and suffering compensation is payable or has been paid as a lump sum; and

  B

  is the amount set out in column 3 of Schedule 3 that corresponds to the extent of disability, as set out in column 2 of that Schedule, that is the total of the member’s or veteran’s extent of disability for which a disability award has been paid or for which pain and suffering compensation has been paid as a lump sum.

• Marginal note:Fraction

  (2) For the purpose of determining the extent of disability in subsection (1), if a disability award or pain and suffering compensation was paid or may be paid only in respect of a fraction of a disability, then only that fraction of the disability shall be taken into account.