An Act to amend the Old Age Security Act (Guaranteed Income Supplement)
An Act to amend the Old Age Security Act (Guaranteed Income Supplement). Royal assent February 25, 2022 (S.C. 2022, c. 1). Excludes Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB), and related federal pandemic benefits from the calculation of GIS-eligible income for the July 2021 to June 2022 benefit year. Restores GIS payments to an estimated 88,000 low-income seniors whose 2020 pandemic-benefit income had reduced or eliminated their GIS in 2021, and provides one-time payments to compensate seniors whose GIS had already been clawed back. Sponsored by Kamal Khera as Minister of Seniors.
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Fixed an unintended consequence of pandemic benefits. CERB and CRB payments had pushed thousands of low-income seniors above the GIS income threshold, cutting them off the supplement. This bill excluded those benefits from the calculation and restored payments retroactively.
Issues this bill touches
- Cost of Living
Top-up to the Guaranteed Income Supplement for the lowest-income seniors during the 2022 inflation shock.
Legislative history
- First reading
First reading in the House of Commons.
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Second reading in the House of Commons.
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Third reading in the House of Commons.
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First reading in the Senate.
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Second reading in the Senate.
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Third reading in the Senate.
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Royal assent received.
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Kamal KheraLIBERALOfficial source
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