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SINGLE PENSIONER [2 records]

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Record 1 1997-01-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Security and Employment Insurance
CONT

There are two rates for GIS (Guaranteed Income Supplement). One applies to single pensioners (which includes widowed, divorced or separated persons as well as individuals who have never married and also to married pensioners whose spouses are not in receipt of either the basic OAS (Old Age Security) pension or SPA (Spouse's Allowance).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité sociale et assurance-emploi
CONT

Il existe deux taux du Supplément de revenu garanti. Le premier vise les pensionnés seuls, soit veufs, divorcés, séparés ou célibataires, ainsi que les pensionnés mariés dont les conjoints ne sont admissibles ni à la Sécurité de la vieillesse, ni à l'Allocation au conjoint.

Spanish

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Record 2 1990-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour and Employment
  • Employment Benefits
CONT

If the plans are amended to provide higher monthly benefits for the single retiree to compensate for the fact that no payments will ever be made to a surviving spouse, then we will have discrimination, based on marital status, in the amount of the monthly benefit, but not in the commuted value of the benefit.

Key term(s)
  • single pensioner

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail et emploi
  • Avantages sociaux
Key term(s)
  • retraité célibataire
  • retraité vivant seul

Spanish

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