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Only employees who report to work at an establishment in Ontario, or who are paid from an establishment in Ontario. [8]: §6 Employment in the federal government is exempt. [8]: §7 Employees who are under 18 years of age or over 70 years, and those receiving an ORPP pension (other than a pension to a surviving spouse), are exempt.
] Nortel pensioners face benefit cuts of as much as 43 per cent, depending on their province of residence and where they worked for Nortel, which filed for protection from creditors in January 2009. In Ontario: unionized members will get 75 per cent of their non-indexed pensions; non-managerial staff will get 70 per cent. Outside Ontario:
The Ontario Pension Board in Canada is an independent organization responsible for administering defined-benefit pensions for certain employees of the provincial government and its agencies, boards, and commissions. [1]
The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System [3] (OMERS) is a Canadian public pension fund, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.OMERS is a defined benefit, jointly sponsored, multi-employer public pension plan created in 1962 by Ontario provincial statute to administer retirement benefits and manage pension investment funds of local government employees in the Canadian province of Ontario.
Ontario regulates approximately 8,350 employment pension plans, which comprise more than 40 per cent of all registered pension plans in Canada [1] It was originally enacted as the Pension Benefits Act, 1965 (S.O. 1965, c. 96), and it was the first statute in any Canadian jurisdiction to regulate pension plans. [2]
Private pension plans are subjected to various regulations among the provinces and territories, and must be registered with the authorities. Defined benefit plans guarantee a specific retirement benefit to plan members, based on a formula that takes into account factors such as the member's years of service and earnings history.
In October 2018, the average monthly benefits for a new retirement pension (taken at age 65) was just over $664.00 per month, and the maximum amount in 2019 was $1,154.58 per month. Monthly benefits are adjusted every year based on the Consumer Price Index. CPP benefit payments are taxable as ordinary income.
Target benefit plans are similar to defined benefit plans in that the annual contribution is determined by a formula to calculate the amount needed each year to accumulate (at an assumed interest rate) a fund sufficient to pay a projected retirement benefit, the target benefit, to each participant upon reaching retirement.