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e-535 (Canada Pension Plan)
E-petition
Initiated by Barry Conroy from Kingston, Ontario
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the House of Commons in Parliament assembled
Whereas:
- We recognize the efforts our federal public servants take to provide services to Canadians;
- We recognize that some employees become ill and/or disabled, and must resort to long term disability, medically retire, and live on disability;
- The Government of Canada, through the Public Service Superannuation Act (PSSA), allows itself and insurance companies the right to deduct all Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Disability Benefits, dollar for dollar, from the registered pensions of all Canadians, who have paid for them; and
- These deductions are retroactive and leave federal employees, as well as other Canadians who have paid into registered pension plans, on the brink of financial ruin while they attempt to reimburse the insurance companies, and/or the PSSA.
We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the House of Commons in Parliament assembled to change the PSSA in order to cease the discriminatory practice of deducting the CPP Disability Benefits from disabled retired federal employees, as well as any other Canadian who pays into a employers registered pension plan, to apply the same measures to protect sources of registered income from being reduced by the disability amount and give the same considerations to disabled retired federal employees as identified during the November 2011 parliamentary debate to protect disabled members of the military and RCMP, and recommend that the government cease this deducting of CPP Disability Benefits from PSSA income immediately and retroactively, and direct the PSSA to refund past deductions.
- Open for signature
- January 31, 2017, at 9:08 a.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- May 31, 2017, at 9:08 a.m. (EDT)
