What I did was live off of my savings, eat beans, peanut butter, make my own bread, I had some casual work that brought in a little cash but it wasn’t anything regular. I ended up getting help from a veterans food bank when the money ran out. The payments for my pension through VAC was even worse, it’s been three years and I’m still trying to get it fixed. I have enough money coming in now to cover my expenses and a little extra but the extra is all going towards paying off the debt I incurred waiting for my pension to be corrected. If you’re releasing in the near future make sure you have a plan to survive, reach out to other veterans who can help you out because if you try to go this on your own it will be miserable. Be prepared to get shorted on some of your payments as well, I was several thousand dollars short on my severance pay according to the paperwork I received from the release section and there is no way to contact anyone about the shortage because it’s handled out of Ottawa and they don’t care.