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The Quebec Pension Plan (QPP; French: Régime des rentes du Québec; RRQ) is Quebec's version of the Canada Pension Plan. The QPP is managed by Retraite Québec , which was formed from a merger of the Commission administrative des régimes de retraite et d'assurances (CARRA) and the Régie des rentes du Québec (RRQ) in 2016.
A social insurance number (SIN) (French: numéro d'assurance sociale (NAS)) is a number issued in Canada to administer various government programs. The SIN was created in 1964 to serve as a client account number in the administration of the Canada Pension Plan and Canada's varied employment insurance programs.
The Old Age Security (OAS, French: Sécurité de la vieillesse) program is a universal retirement pension available to most residents and citizens of Canada who have reached 65 years old. This pension is supplemented by the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS), which is added to the monthly OAS payment for seniors with lower incomes.
Service Canada is a program by Employment and Social Development Canada that provides access to various government services and benefits, such as social insurance number, Employment Insurance, Old Age Security, and Canada Pension Plan. It also issues passports and has partnered with some provincial agencies to deliver services in rural and remote areas.
Despite opinion pieces claiming the imminent demise of DB plans in Canada, [7] Statistics Canada information verifies only a slight decline in the number of plans over the most recently available five-year period (9,304 in 2017 to 9,022 in 2021 – a 3.13% reduction). [8]
Learn about the format, prefixes, and area codes of Canadian telephone numbers, as well as the history and regulation of the North American Numbering Plan. The country code for Canada is 1, which is used for international access and trunk prefix.
Learn about the history, organization and assets of the Ontario Pension Board, an independent organization that administers defined-benefit pensions for provincial government employees. The board has about 44,000 members and 39,000 retirees.
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is the federal revenue service that collects taxes, administers tax law and policy, and delivers benefit programs and tax credits. Learn about its history, structure, mandate, and operations from this Wikipedia article.