Australia
- Veterans were given free tuition and provided with loans on favourable terms to setup businesses.
- Medical problems from war service are treated free of charge.
- Veterans receive disability pensions of up to £60 per week.
- Servicemen returning from the second world war were offered blocks of land with easy to pay terms.

Germany
- Disabled servicemen receive £10 a week more than British counterpars.
- War disabled receive free public transport for journeys up to 30 miles.
- Veterans are eligible for tax relief.
- More than 500,00 veterans and war widows draw £64 weekly benefit.
- Some needy widows receive an extra £71 per week.

Japan
- Disability pensions of £227 a week are paid to 99,238 former soldiers.
- Special government bonds provide lump sum cash benefits for war widows and families.
- A further £124 a week is allocated to each of the 881,620 war widows and other family members of dead veterans.

Italy
- Free travel on trains and buses.
- Free medical treatment.
- Veterans retire 7 years earlier than British counterparts.
- Local authorities help with housing.
- Former civil servants pensions are based on the salary they would have earned at the height of their careers, e.g. a clerk would retire on an office managers pension.

Great Britain
- Able bodied veterans receive only a basic state pension.
- Local authorities can disregard Disabled Veterans pensions when assessing housing benefits and council tax liabilities, but 10% of councils only allow the £10 they are obliged by law.
- Sheffield city council have given an extra £10 disregard recently, but it only helps the lowest percentage, not those on the higher percentage due to graver injuries.
- War widows receive an average £73 per week, but their disregard is £51.71.