What you want to ensure is that you reach out as quickly as possible, and not necessarily at the time of payment. For the department it's important that, as Mr. MacLeod explained, you take steps as early as possible to ensure that people are aware of the benefits, and this is with respect to proactive measures as well.
With respect to “The first pension payment any person shall include an application”, I think it's inherent that with the combined application form for old age security and the guaranteed income supplement, at the time an individual is applying for the old age security benefit is when you want to ensure that you're also reaching out to them on the guaranteed income supplement so that they're aware at that time.
And as a result of that combined application form, which is a tick, “Yes, I want to be entitled to both old age security and the guaranteed supplement”, as a measure this is what we're proposing and administratively this is what will happen.