- (i) a single amount in respect of all offices and employments of that person equal to
- (A) for the purpose of determining benefits payable in respect of any month before July 2008, the lesser of $500 and one fifth of the person’s income from office or employment for the year, or
- (B) for the purpose of determining benefits payable in respect of any month after June 2008 but before July 2020, the lesser of $3,500 and the person’s income from office or employment for the year,
- (i) the amount of contributions made in respect of those self-employed earnings by the person during the year under the Canada Pension Plan or a provincial pension plan as defined in section 3 of that Act, and
- (ii) the amount of premium paid by the person during the year under Part VII.1 of the Employment Insurance Act ,
- (i) the lesser of $5,000 and the combined amount, and
- (ii) if the combined amount is greater than $5,000, the lesser of $5,000 and half of the amount by which the combined amount exceeds $5,000,
- (i) the amount of any benefit under this Act and any similar payment under a law of a provincial legislature,
- (i.1) the amount of the payment under the program referred to in section 275 of the Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1 ,
- (ii) the amount of any death benefit under the Canada Pension Plan or a provincial pension plan as defined in section 3 of that Act, and
- (iii) the amount of any social assistance payment made on the basis of a means, a needs or an income test by a registered charity as defined in subsection 248(1) of the Income Tax Act or under a program provided for by an Act of Parliament or a provincial legislature that is neither a program prescribed under the Income Tax Act nor a program under which the amounts referred to in subparagraph (i) are paid,
- (i) the Canada Emergency Response Benefit Act ,
- (ii) Part VIII.4 of the Employment Insurance Act ,
- (iii) the Canada Recovery Benefits Act , and
- (iv) the Canada Worker Lockdown Benefit Act ,
- (i) the total of any amounts that may be deducted under section 121 of the Income Tax Act in computing the person’s tax payable for the year
- (ii) the person’s “tax for the year otherwise payable under this Part” (within the meaning assigned by subsection 126(7) of the Income Tax Act for the purposes of paragraph 126(1)(b) of that Act) for the year, and
means the Minister of Employment and Social Development; ( ministre )
, in relation to a month, means
- (a) the fiscal year that includes the month, where the month is before April, 1998,
- (b) the period that begins on April 1, 1998 and ends on June 30, 1999, where that period includes the month, and
- (c) the period after June 30, 1999 that begins on July 1 of one year and ends on June 30 of the next year, where that period includes the month; ( période de paiement )
means a period of three months commencing on the first day of April, July, October or January in a payment period; ( trimestre de paiement )
means a monthly pension authorized to be paid under Part I; ( pension )
means a person whose application for a pension has been approved; ( pensionné )
means prescribed by the regulations; ( Version anglaise seulement )
, in relation to a person who has been incarcerated, means release from custody on earned remission, at the expiry of a sentence, or on parole or statutory release that has not been terminated or revoked. ( libération )
[Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 235]
, in relation to a payment quarter, means,
- (a) if the payment quarter commences on the first day of April in a payment period, the period of three months commencing on the first day of August immediately before that first day of April,
- (b) if the payment quarter commences on the first day of July in a payment period, the period of three months commencing on the first day of November immediately before that first day of July,
- (c) if the payment quarter commences on the first day of October in a payment period, the period of three months commencing on the first day of February immediately before that first day of October, and
- (d) if the payment quarter commences on the first day of January in a payment period, the period of three months commencing on the first day of May immediately before that first day of January; ( second trimestre de rajustement )
of a person for a month before April 1996 means one and for a month after March 1996 means
- (a) one, where the person is not a specially qualified individual, and
- (b) where the person is a specially qualified individual, the fraction of which
- (i) the numerator is the aggregate period (expressed in the number of years and, where the number of years is not a whole number, rounded down to the next lower whole number) as of the last day of the immediately preceding month, during which the individual has resided in Canada after attaining eighteen years of age, and
- (ii) the denominator is 10; ( facteur d’admissibilité )
means a person who has not resided in Canada after attaining eighteen years of age for an aggregate period of ten or more years other than such a person to whom a pension or allowance was payable
- (a) for the month of March 1996 or an earlier month, or
- (b) for the month of January 2001 or an earlier month, where, before March 7, 1996, the person was residing in Canada as a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act ; ( particulier déterminé )
[Repealed, 2000, c. 12, s. 192]
[Repealed, 2000, c. 12, s. 192]
means a monthly guaranteed income supplement authorized to be paid under Part II; ( supplément )
means a person whose spouse or common-law partner has died and who has not thereafter become the spouse or common-law partner of another person. ( survivant )
[Repealed, 2000, c. 12, s. 192]
- R.S., 1985, c. O-9, s. 2
- R.S., 1985, c. 34 (1st Supp.), s. 1
- 1995, c. 33, s. 1
- 1996, c. 11, s. 95, c. 18, s. 50
- 1998, c. 21, ss. 105, 119(E)
- 1999, c. 22, s. 87
- 2000, c. 12, ss. 192, 209(E)
- 2001, c. 27, s. 263
- 2005, c. 35, s. 67
- 2006, c. 4, s. 180
- 2007, c. 35, s. 129
- 2008, c. 28, s. 156
- 2009, c. 33, s. 31
- 2010, c. 22, s. 2
- 2012, c. 19, ss. 235, 694
- 2013, c. 40, s. 238
- 2019, c. 29, s. 156
- 2021, c. 23, s. 268
- 2022, c. 1, s. 1
- 2022, c. 10, s. 380
Marginal note: Amount of full monthly pension
- 2.1 (1) In this Act, a reference to the amount of a full monthly pension means the amount of a full monthly pension, as it is calculated in accordance with section 7, that has not been increased under subsection 7.1(1) or (2).
- Marginal note: Monthly pension (2) The terms in subsections 12(5) and 22(2) and in subsection 12(5.1) mean, respectively, a pensioner’s monthly pension and a pension that have not been increased under subsection 7.1(1) or (2).
- 2012, c. 19, s. 446
- 2021, c. 23, s. 269
2.2 [Repealed, 2016, c. 7, s. 188]
PART I Monthly Pension
Pension Payable
Marginal note: Payment of full pension
- 3 (1) Subject to this Act and the regulations, a full monthly pension may be paid to
- (a) every person who was a pensioner on July 1, 1977;
- (b) every person who
- (i) on July 1, 1977 was not a pensioner but had attained twenty-five years of age and resided in Canada or, if that person did not reside in Canada, had resided in Canada for any period after attaining eighteen years of age or possessed a valid immigration visa,
- (ii) has attained sixty-five years of age, and
- (iii) has resided in Canada for the ten years immediately preceding the day on which that person’s application is approved or, if that person has not so resided, has, after attaining eighteen years of age, been present in Canada prior to those ten years for an aggregate period at least equal to three times the aggregate periods of absence from Canada during those ten years, and has resided in Canada for at least one year immediately preceding the day on which that person’s application is approved; and
- (i) was not a pensioner on July 1, 1977,
- (ii) has attained sixty-five years of age, and
- (iii) has resided in Canada after attaining eighteen years of age and prior to the day on which that person’s application is approved for an aggregate period of at least forty years.
- (a) has attained sixty-five years of age; and
- (b) has resided in Canada after attaining eighteen years of age and prior to the day on which that person’s application is approved for an aggregate period of at least ten years but less than forty years and, where that aggregate period is less than twenty years, was resident in Canada on the day preceding the day on which that person’s application is approved.
- R.S., 1985, c. O-9, s. 3
- 2012, c. 19, s. 448
- 2021, c. 23, s. 270
