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e-568 (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 and appreciate the efforts our federal public servants take to provide services to Canadians, which we comfortably take for granted;
  • We recognize that in the course of their work life, some employees become ill and/or disabled, and must resort to medical retirement and disability to survive;
  • The Government of Canada, through its application of the Public Service Superannuation Act (PSSA), deducts the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Disability Benefit, dollar for dollar, from the pensions these people have paid into for decades;
  • These deductions are retroactive and leave these people, who have provided us with services, on the brink of financial ruin while they attempt to reimburse the insurance companies, and/or the PSSA; and
  • This draconian practice does not happen to healthy employees, but only to those who have lost their health, and eliminating the practice of "clawing back" benefits will ease the burden of those who have enough to worry about, being unfortunately ill.
We, the undersigned, citizens (or residents) of Canada, call upon the House of Commons in Parliament assembled to:
1. Pass legislation, or change the PSSA in order to cease the draconian and discriminatory practice of "clawing back", or deducting the CPP Disability Benefits awarded to disabled retired federal employees;
2. Apply the same measures to other sources of registered income, and give the same considerations to these disabled retired federal employees, as has been granted to the disabled members of the military and RCMP; and
3. Recommend that the Government of Canada cease this deducting of the CPP Disability Benefits from PSSA income immediately and retroactively, and directs the PSSA to refund the monies deducted.
Open for signature
September 26, 2016, at 3:32 p.m. (EDT)
Closed for signature
January 24, 2017, at 3:32 p.m. (EDT)
Photo - Mark Gerretsen
Kingston and the Islands
Liberal Caucus
Ontario