Section 59 — Canada Pension Plan: Amount of benefit

Except in the case of a dependent child described in subparagraph (b)(ii) of the definition dependent child in subsection 42(1), a disabled contributor’s child’s benefit payable to the child of a disabled contributor and an orphan’s benefit payable to the orphan of a contributor, is a basic monthly amount consisting of in the year 1991, one hundred and thirteen dollars and fourteen cents; in the year 1992, the aggregate of one hundred and thirteen dollars and fourteen cents, multiplied by the ratio referred to in subparagraph (c)(ii), and thirty-five dollars; or in the year 1993 or any subsequent year, an amount calculated by multiplying the amount of the benefit that would have been payable for a month in the year preceding that year by the ratio that the Pension Index for the year in which the benefit commences to be payable bears to the Pension Index for the year preceding that year. In the case of a dependent child described in subparagraph (b)(ii) of the definition dependent child in subsection 42(1), a disabled contributor’s child’s benefit payable to the child of a disabled contributor and an orphan’s benefit payable to the orphan of a contributor, is a basic monthly amount equal to 50% of the amount that would otherwise be calculated under paragraph (1)(c).