Thank you very much, Ms. Koutrakis.
As Mr. Groen said, the cost for old age security, the topic of today's meeting, is 6% less than the estimated budget. It's $633 million to serve 7.7 million Canadians, as Minister Hajdu said. The transition was largely seamless. Yes, some payments were delayed, as Minister Hajdu said. We're working on that and we've cleared a significant number of cases.
Here's a more specific example. In Quebec, over 1.8 million Quebeckers receive old age security. At this point in time, the latest data I have indicate that fewer than 10,000 Quebeckers are still having problems, which are being resolved. That number is dropping week by week, month by month. The system is working, for the most part. It absolutely had to be implemented in a secure and stable manner, and that's what we're seeing.