An Act to amend the Old Age Security Act (CPP payments)

This bill is from the 40th Parliament, 3rd session, which ended in March 2011.

Sponsor

Chris Charlton  NDP

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of Oct. 25, 2010
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Old Age Security Act to provide that a pensioner’s guaranteed income supplement may not be reduced solely as a result of an increase in the pensioner’s income caused by an increase in the pensioner’s pension under the Canada Pension Plan that is solely the result of the indexation of that pension.

Similar bills

C-318 (41st Parliament, 2nd session) An Act to amend the Old Age Security Act (Canada Pension Plan payments)
C-318 (41st Parliament, 1st session) An Act to amend the Old Age Security Act (Canada Pension Plan payments)

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 C-585s:

C-585 (2014) An Act to amend the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act (period of residence)