Michael Savage at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On October 7th, 2010. See this statement in context.

October 7th, 2010 / 10:30 a.m.

Liberal

Michael Savage Liberal Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, NS

I want to just ask you a question about how the process actually works. Proposed section 9.2 of the bill says:

Payment of a pension that is suspended...shall resume in respect of the month in which a pensioner is released but only after they notify the Minister in writing of their release.

So is the process such that if somebody is incarcerated and is impacted by these changes, they will, I assume, automatically lose their pension, but when they come out, they would have to notify the minister in writing. Can you explain that to me?

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