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<p>The Government provides a range of different support measures for British Armed
Forces veterans living overseas. Regardless of where a veteran lives, they can receive
any Armed Forces Pension, War Pension, Gurkha Pension or Armed Forces Compensation
Scheme payments they are entitled to. In addition, healthcare support is also provided.
Over 25,000 Gurkha veterans and their families live in Nepal and can access medical
care provided by the Gurkha Welfare Trust. In 2019 the Government committed £25m over
the next 10 years to improve this healthcare support. Elsewhere, any veteran who has
received a gratuity payment due to disablement resulting from service or is in receipt
of a disablement pension under the War Pension Scheme can have the costs of treatment
met where there is no free healthcare for that condition available in the country
they reside. In addition to this financial and healthcare support the Commonwealth
Veteran’s Programme provides funding to over 7000 Commonwealth veterans in more than
30 countries to ensure they receive the equivalent of two healthy meals a day. Any
Armed Forces veteran can also contact the Veterans UK helpline wherever they reside
in the world.</p>
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