Bill S-234 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Canada Pension Plan (retroactivity of retirement and survivor's pensions)

This bill is from the 40th Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in December 2009.

Status

Second reading (Senate), as of Nov. 17, 2009
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Canada Pension Plan so that a person who applies for a retirement pension after reaching 70 years of age or who applies for a survivor’s pension would be eligible to receive retroactive payments for a maximum of five years instead of the current maximum of 12 months.

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other S-234s:

S-234 (2021) An Act to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (final disposal of plastic waste)

S-234 (2021) An Act to amend the Investment Canada Act (mandatory national security review of investments by foreign state-owned enterprises)

S-234 (2016) An Act to amend the Parliament of Canada Act (Parliamentary Visual Artist Laureate)

S-234 (2015) Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act

S-234 (2008) Assembly of the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada Act