Canada Pension Plan
Sections and provisions with full text and the judgments that cite each one.
Section 59.2 — Amount of benefit
A post-retirement disability benefit payable to a contributor is a basic monthly amount that is in the case of a benefit payable for a month in the year 2019, an amount calculated by multiplying…
Section 60 — Application for benefit
No benefit is payable to any person under this Act unless an application therefor has been made by him or on his behalf and payment of the benefit has been approved under this Act. An application for…
Section 61 — Approval of interim benefit
Where application is made for a benefit and payment of the benefit would be approved except that the amount of the benefit cannot be finally calculated at the time the approval would otherwise be…
Section 62 — Where payment approved after month of commencement
Payment of a benefit for each month shall be made at such time during the month as the Minister directs, except that, where payment of a benefit is approved after the end of the month for which the…
Section 63 — Where spouse remarried before survivor’s pension payable
Where a person whose spouse has died remarries at a time when no survivor’s pension is payable to him, no survivor’s pension is payable to that person during the period of his remarriage and if…
Section 63.1 — Subsections do not apply
Subsections 63(1) and (2) do not apply to a person who remarries after the coming into force of this section. Where, before the coming into force of subsection (1), a survivor’s pension that, but for…
Section 64
[Repealed, R.S., 1985, c. 30 (2nd Supp.), s. 32]
Section 65 — Benefit not to be assigned, etc.
A benefit shall not be assigned, charged, attached, anticipated or given as security, and any transaction purporting to assign, charge, attach, anticipate or give as security a benefit is void. A…
Section 65.1 — Assignment of retirement pension to spouse or common-law partner
Notwithstanding subsection 65(1) but subject to this section, the Minister may approve the assignment of a portion of a contributor’s retirement pension to the contributor’s spouse or common-law…
Section 66 — Return of benefit where recipient not entitled
A person or estate that has received or obtained by cheque or otherwise a benefit payment to which the person or estate is not entitled, or a benefit payment in excess of the amount of the benefit…
Section 66.1 — Request to cancel benefit
A beneficiary may, in prescribed manner and within the prescribed time interval after payment of a benefit has commenced, request cancellation of that benefit. Subsection (1) does not apply to the…
Section 67 — Commencement of retirement pension
For a retirement pension that commences to be payable before January 1, 1987, subject to section 62, where an applicant, other than an estate, has reached sixty-five years of age and payment of the…
Section 68 — Duration of payment
Subject to this Act, a retirement pension shall continue to be paid during the lifetime of the beneficiary, and shall cease with the payment for the month in which the beneficiary dies.
Section 68.1
[Repealed, 2009, c. 31, s. 39]
Section 69 — Commencement of pension
Subject to section 62, where payment of a disability pension is approved, the pension is payable for each month commencing with the fourth month following the month in which the applicant became…
Section 70 — When pension ceases to be payable
A disability pension ceases to be payable with the payment for the month in which the beneficiary ceases to be disabled; for the month immediately preceding the month in which the beneficiary…
Section 70.01 — Commencement of benefit
Subject to section 62, if payment of a post-retirement disability benefit is approved, the benefit is payable for each month commencing with the fourth month following the month after December 2018…
Section 70.02 — When benefit ceases to be payable
A post-retirement disability benefit ceases to be payable with the payment for the month in which the beneficiary ceases to be disabled; for the month in which the beneficiary reaches 65 years of…
Section 70.1 — Reinstatement of disability pension or post-retirement disability benefit
Subject to this section, a person who has ceased to receive a disability pension or a post-retirement disability benefit because they have returned to work is entitled to have that pension or benefit…
Section 71 — Payable to estate
Where payment of a death benefit is approved, the Minister shall, except as provided in subsections (2) and (3), pay the death benefit to the estate of the contributor. The Minister may direct…
Section 72 — Commencement of pension
Subject to section 62, if payment of a survivor’s pension is approved, the pension is payable for each month commencing with, if subparagraph 44(1)(d)(i) applies, the month following the month in…
Section 73 — Duration of payment
Subject to this Act, a survivor’s pension shall continue to be paid during the lifetime of the beneficiary, and shall cease with the payment for the month in which the beneficiary dies. If a…
Section 74 — Persons by whom application may be made
An application for a disabled contributor’s child’s benefit or orphan’s benefit may be made on behalf of a disabled contributor’s child or orphan by the child or orphan or by any other person or…
Section 75 — 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…
Section 76 — When disabled contributor’s child’s benefit ceases to be payable
A disabled contributor’s child’s benefit ceases to be payable with the payment for the month in which the child ceases to be a dependent child; the child dies; the contributor’s disability pension or…
Section 76.1 — Commencement of benefit
Subject to section 62, a post-retirement benefit is payable to a beneficiary of a retirement pension for each month commencing with January 1 of the year following the year of a contributor’s…
Section 76.2 — Duration of payment
Subject to this Act, a post-retirement benefit shall continue to be paid during the lifetime of the beneficiary and shall cease with the payment for the month in which the beneficiary dies.
Section 77 — Amount of benefit payable under Act
Where, by virtue of any provision of this Act other than this section, a benefit is payable under this Act to or in respect of any contributor, notwithstanding anything in this Part except as…
Section 78 — Total pensionable earnings attributable to base contributions made under Act
The total pensionable earnings of a contributor attributable to base contributions made under this Act are an amount equal to the amount that their total pensionable earnings would be if the base…
Section 78.1 — Total first additional pensionable earnings attributable to first additional contributions made under Act
The total first additional pensionable earnings of a contributor attributable to first additional contributions made under this Act are an amount equal to the amount that their total first additional…
Section 78.2 — Total second additional pensionable earnings attributable to second additional contributions made under Act
The total second additional pensionable earnings of a contributor attributable to second additional contributions made under this Act are an amount equal to the amount that their total second…
Section 79 — Total pensionable earnings attributable to base contributions made under Act as a result of division
For a year of a division as determined under section 55 or 55.1 and under a provincial pension plan, the total pensionable earnings of a contributor attributable to base contributions made under this…
Section 79.1 — Total first additional pensionable earnings attributable to first additional contributions made under Act as a result of division
For a year of a division as determined under section 55.1 and under a provincial pension plan, the total first additional pensionable earnings of a contributor attributable to first additional…
Section 79.2 — Total second additional pensionable earnings attributable to second additional contributions made under Act as a result of division
For a year of a division as determined under section 55.1 and under a provincial pension plan, the total second additional pensionable earnings of a contributor attributable to second additional…
Section 80 — Agreements with provinces
Notwithstanding section 77, the Minister, with the approval of the Governor in Council, may on behalf of the Government of Canada enter into an agreement with the appropriate authority of a province…
Section 80.1 — Agreements respecting the apportionment of payments
The Minister may, with the approval of the Governor in Council, on behalf of the Government of Canada enter into an agreement with any person or body responsible for the administration of any other…
Section 81 — Appeal to Minister
Where a spouse, former spouse, common-law partner, former common-law partner or estate is dissatisfied with any decision made under section 55, 55.1, 55.2 or 55.3, an applicant is dissatisfied with…
Section 82 — Appeal to Social Security Tribunal
A party who is dissatisfied with a decision of the Minister made under section 81, including a decision in relation to further time to make a request, or, subject to the regulations, any person on…
Section 83 — Stay of benefits pending judicial review
If a decision is made by the Social Security Tribunal established under section 44 of the Department of Employment and Social Development Act in respect of a benefit, the Minister may stay payment of…
Section 84
[Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 229]
Section 85
[Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 229]
Section 86
[Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 229]
Section 86.1
[Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 229]
Section 87 — Census information
Subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, for the purpose of ascertaining the age of any applicant or beneficiary, or of an applicant’s or a beneficiary’s spouse or common-law partner or…
Section 88 — Presumption as to death
Where a contributor or beneficiary, or a contributor’s or beneficiary’s spouse or common-law partner or former spouse or former common-law partner, has, either before or after the coming into force…
Section 89 — Regulations
The Governor in Council may make regulations prescribing or defining anything that, by this Part, is to be prescribed or defined by regulations; prescribing the time, manner and form of making…
Section 90 — Offence and punishment
Every person who knowingly makes a false or misleading statement in any application or declaration or makes any application or declaration that by reason of any non-disclosure of facts is false or…
Section 90.1 — Penalty for misrepresentation, etc.
The Minister may impose on a person a penalty for each of the following acts or omissions if the Minister becomes aware of facts that in the Minister’s opinion establish that the person has made a…
Section 90.2 — Interpretation
The definitions in this subsection apply in this section. document includes moneys, securities, books, records, letters, accounts, statements (financial or otherwise), correspondence, memoranda,…
Section 91 — Definitions
The following definitions apply in this Part. additional Canada Pension Plan means the part of the Canada Pension Plan relating to the portions of benefits that are referred to in paragraphs 46(1)(b)…