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The Ontario Government will not implement a proposal that would have made the Ontario Drug Benefit Plan the second payer for federal pensioners who are members of the Public Service Health Care Pla... Read more

The Age Credit increase and the mechanism that would allow splitting pension income for income tax purposes need to receive Royal Assent before being implemented.  For taxation year 2006, the $1,0... Read more

FSNA’s National President wrote to the Premier of Ontario to protest against the proposal that would make the Ontario Drug Benefit Plan the second payer for Ontario pensioners’ members of t... Read more

FSNA supports the Government’s plan to implement a fairer tax system, as announced by the Minister of Finance (PDF) on ... Read more

The increase in indexing that will be applied to Public Service, Canadian Forces, and RCMP pensions in January 2007 will be 2.3 per cent. For those who retired in 2006 and are entitled to indexatio... Read more

The principle of legislating pension income splitting for senior Canadian couples went unchallenged at the
national conference on pension tax reform “Pension Tension” that was held on Oct... Read more

This bulletin outlines the costs and claims results of the PSHCP for 2005. It also provides clarifications on ... Read more

FSNA submitted a brief on pension splitting (PDF) to the House of Commo... Read more

Effective 1 June 2006, all claims submitted directly to Sun Life, the Plan Administrator, by a provider of services will be declined and returned to the member with a request for the member to re-s... Read more

A five-year agreement has been signed to renew the Public Service Health Care Plan (PSHCP) that provides health care benefits and services to some 520,000 plan members – employees, pensioners, an... Read more

As of April 1 2006, the monthly contribution rates to the Pensioners’ Dental Services Plan were reduced by some 20% and eligible pensioners are able to enrol at anytime, with the abolishment of t... Read more

The decision of the Supreme Court of British Columbia to dismiss the claims of both Public Service and Canadian Forces class actions regarding the Supplementary Death Benefits (SDB) is being appeal... Read more

The earliest date for the trial on the pension surplus to reconvene is February 26, 2007. It is estimated that the trial itself could last six weeks and the time required for argument could be two ... Read more

The Supreme Court of British Columbia dismissed the claims of both Public Service and Canadian Forces class actions regarding the Supplementary Death Benefits (SDB). These actions challenged the ag... Read more