The Federal Court recently approved an $817-million settlement for a class action suit arising from a miscalculation of disability pension benefits that went undiscovered for almost a decade.
The case, Manuge v. Canada, involved members and veterans of the RCMP and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) plus their spouses, common-law partners, dependants, survivors and estates, amounting to roughly 330,711 class members.
The error, discovered by Canada’s Veterans Ombudsman in 2018, added up to an underpayment of about $165 million. However, that number ballooned to over $800 million after four class action proceedings were consolidated and settled.
