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Human Resources committee There are 67,000 females who receive the allowance and 5,000 males who receive the allowance.
February 20th, 2007Committee meeting
Marla Israel
Human Resources committee Yes, but since some individuals often travel from country to country, it's a relatively common phenomenon.
February 20th, 2007Committee meeting
Marla Israel
Human Resources committee Thank you. I take the comments and I thank you for them. Right now, in terms of the overpayments, because the Canada Pension Plan and old age security benefits are over a person's lifetime, you can have a situation where there would be an overpayment, for example, that would ta
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Marla Israel
Human Resources committee I don't have any statistics in terms of the number of overpayments or the number of people who have overpayments in the system. I may have said on previous occasions that there are a number of circumstances that could lead to a situation of overpayment. To be clearer, and just
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Marla Israel
Human Resources committee Well, it “shall be recoverable” within six years, so that would be the limitation.
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Marla Israel
Human Resources committee Before we start our caucus, I will take a look, but I guess just to re-emphasize.... Let's take our caucus on that.
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Marla Israel
Human Resources committee I just want to comment on that, because I have the section. It was referencing the Auditor General's report concerning the overpayment policy: [It] sets guidelines for the collection process to ensure that beneficiaries repaying overpayments are treated consistently and equitab
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Marla Israel
Human Resources committee My first comment is that of course you'd have to examine the financial impact of doing that. In other words, you'd only decide that if there's a debt that's owed, you would go back retroactively to six years and no more. And right now there could be cases of deliberate fraud on t
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Marla Israel
Human Resources committee 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 wit
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Marla Israel
Human Resources committee I think, generally speaking, words are important—I would definitely agree with you—and the obligation of the “shall” provides an obligation on the part of the minister to disregard circumstances that could arise where it would be warranted, for example, to provide an individual w
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Marla Israel
Human Resources committee I'm not sure I absolutely understand that. Can you please repeat it? I apologize.
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Marla Israel
Human Resources committee It's not an overpayment situation. Clause 4 is an overpayment situation.
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Marla Israel
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Marla Israel
Human Resources committee From the perspective of what was discussed originally, there's a notion that benefits under the Old Age Security Act and the Canada Pension Plan are not subject to nationality restrictions. In other words, you should not advantage or disadvantage someone simply because they happe
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Marla Israel
Human Resources committee The only thing I would add to that is that the financial obligation of the sponsor is in play. If the financial obligation of the sponsor is in play, and a person only through social security agreements would be entitled to a prorated income-tested benefit--I'm preaching to the c
February 27th, 2007Committee meeting
Marla Israel