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As of January 2013, pension contribution rates will be increasing for employees of the public service and members of the Canadian Forces and the RCMP. The increases became law on December 14, 2012,... Read more

The Treasury Board has announced that the indexing increase to be applied, on January 1, 2013, to Public Service, Canadian Forces, RCMP and federally appointed judges’ pensions will be 1.9%. ... Read more

FSNA is disappointed in the most recent omnibus budget bill (C-45) being introduced in the House of Commons today. “Once again public servants are being kept in the dark when it comes to how ... Read more

The Treasury Board Secretariat recently released its annual report on the federal Public Service Pension Plan for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2011.

The report provides a complete overvi... Read more

FSNA believes that the calls for federal public sector pension reform are a convenient diversion from the bigger issue: that many Canadians do not have access to an adequate pension plan and that t... Read more

January 31, 2012

Prime Minister Harper’s speech at the World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland on January 26, 2012, pointed to the likelihood of change to the Old Age Security (OAS... Read more

The C.D. Howe Institute released its most recent edition of Pension Papers, “Ottawa’s Pension Gap: The Growing and Under-Reported Cost of Federal Employee Pension Plans,”... Read more

The Treasury Board has announced that the increase in indexing to be applied, on January 1, 2012, to public service, Canadian Forces, RCMP, and federally appointed judges’ pensions will be 2.... Read more

The Treasury Board has announced that the increase in indexing to be applied, on January 1, 2011, to public service, Canadian Forces, RCMP, and federally appointed judges’ pensions will be 1.... Read more

Fellow members of FSNA,

The past few weeks have seen a flurry of information in the media concerning pensions and many of you have expressed your concern.

The upcoming budget is expec... Read more

The Court of Appeal for Ontario has set the dates of April 19 to 21, 2010, to hear the appeal of the judgement rendered in November 2007 by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

The 2007 ju... Read more

The Treasury Board has announced that the increase in indexing to be applied, on January 1, 2010, to public service, Canadian Forces, RCMP, and federally appointed judges’ pensions will be 0.... Read more

Press Release – Ottawa (Marketwire – October 29, 2009) – FSNA, operating as the National Association of Federal Retirees, is pleased to hear that... Read more

The Treasury Board has announced that the increase in indexing to be applied to Public Service, Canadian Forces, and RCMP pensions in January 2009 will be 2.5 per cent.

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The Treasury Board has announced the increase in indexing to be applied to Public Service, Canadian Forces, and RCMP pensions in January 2008. The rate for 2008 will be 1.8 per cent.

FSNA qualified as “incomplete and unprofessional” a report issued on January 17, 2007 by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business entitled Read more

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

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

On July 7, 2005, the Treasury Board (TB) Secretariat announced some changes to the three major public sector pension plans, i.e. those applying to the Public Service employees, the Canadian Forces ... Read more

The increase in indexing that will be applied to Public Service, Canadian Forces, and RCMP pensions in January 2005 will be 1.7 per cent.

See the response from the RCMP Commissioner (PDF) regarding FSNA’s letter... Read more

Below is the letter written by the FSNA National President in reaction to the alleged misuse of RCMP pension funds.

Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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The pension increase for 2004 is 3.3 per cent. For those who retired in 2003 and are entitled to indexation, the increase will be pro-rated based on the number of full months in 2003 after the reti... Read more

On Sunday 1 April 2001, the Ottawa Citizen reported that the government is planning to review the Superannuation Act along with its review of the terms and condition of employment in the Public Ser... Read more

This message is specifically for FSNA members who are Canadian Forces retirees. Another retirees’ association has been making statements that contain incorrect or misleading information.
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The increase in indexing that will be applied to Public Service, Canadian Forces and RCMP pensions in January 2001 will be 2.5% as announced by the Treasury Board.