What is the difference between entitlements under Repatriation (DVA), Compensation and MilitarySuper?
It is not appropriate to compare the MilitarySuper legislation to either Veterans Affairs’ or Military Compensation legislation. The three pieces of legislation are designed to meet quite different objectives. The MilitarySuper scheme is designed to provide assistance to a Member irrespective of where or when an injury has incurred. That is, it does not have to be in the line of duty or in a war zone. The Veterans Affairs and Military Compensation schemes on the other hand are more designed to compensate a Member who has suffered an injury or a condition in the course of their employment. In assessing entitlements under this legislation, quite different criteria to that used by MilitarySuper are taken into account. Because the three schemes are so different and because they use different criteria to assess entitlement to benefits, there can be no guarantee that an assessment made under one scheme will automatically give rise to an entitlement under another scheme. It is therefore not p
