Section 75 — Canada Pension Plan: Payment of benefit

If a disabled contributor’s child’s benefit is payable to a child of a disabled contributor or an orphan’s benefit is payable to an orphan of a contributor and the child or orphan has not reached 18 years of age, payment of the benefit must be made to the person or agency having decision-making responsibility for the child or orphan, or, if there is no person or agency having decision-making responsibility for the child or orphan, to any person or agency that the Minister may direct. For the purposes of this Part, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, the following person is presumed to have decision-making responsibility for the child or orphan, as the case may be: the contributor, in relation to a disabled contributor’s child, except if the contributor has less than 20% of the parenting time in respect of the child; and the survivor, if any, of the contributor, in relation to an orphan, except if the survivor has less than 20% of the parenting time in respect of the orphan.