Statements of Principles

The API provides up-to-date machine-readable feed of data from all in-force Statements of Principle – legislative instruments currently critical to DVA’s administration of Compensation and Support – Outcome 1 in the Portfolio Budget Statements, comprising around $6 billion dollars of expenditure. There are 700 instruments, covering over 350 medical conditions and over 8500 SoP Factors (circumstances linking a medical condition to a veteran’s service).

The feed is derived automatically from the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments – the authoritative source of law maintained by the Office of Parliamentary Counsel.

Currently, MyService uses this feed to:

• Enable veterans to select SoP factors directly, shortcutting time-consuming correspondence and shortening claim processing time. Typically MyService calls this function several hundred times each week.

• Obtain an accurate and up-to-date list of medical conditions for which DVA provides treatment and compensation.