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Canada Pension Plan

Public Government of Canada overview of CPP retirement, disability, survivor, children's, death, and post-retirement benefits.

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Government of CanadaofficialLast evidence check 2026-05-06Accessed 2026-05-06Open original Back to source library

Source statusGovernment of Canada source record checked 2026-05-06

Review trailSource usage is tied to public topics and claim records in the repository.

Source typeofficial

Topics using source2

Claims referenced9

Why this source matters

Establishes the current benefit families and household-facing administrative continuity questions any Alberta transition would need to answer. This record currently supports 2 topics and 9 claims in the public repository.

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Used by topics

001Would Albertans keep CPP benefits, or move to a new pension system?CPP withdrawal has a statutory path, but transfer amount, timing, and independence-related pension treatment remain materially uncertain.

002Would Albertans keep Employment Insurance and federal income benefits?Employment Insurance and federal income benefits are currently administered through federal systems; independence would require evidence about continuity, eligibility, funding, and replacement administration.

Referenced claims

001cpp-pensionsThe current CPP system covers multiple benefit streams and administrative functions, including retirement, disability, survivor, children's, death, post-retirement benefits, payroll contributions, and annual program reporting.

002cpp-pensionsThe strongest anti-independence or pro-federation pension argument is that pension security depends on continuity, actuarial credibility, payroll administration, investment governance, and negotiated legal terms that current sources do not yet settle for a separate Alberta system.

003cpp-pensionsThis topic should remain high-uncertainty because ordinary CPP withdrawal mechanics are more defined than independence-related questions about benefit continuity, transfer amount, administration, portability, governance, and negotiated terms.

004employment-insurance-federal-benefitsThe current federal benefits baseline includes broad Government of Canada benefit navigation, EI, CPP, OAS, child/family benefits, and GST/HST credit channels, while Alberta income support remains a separate provincial program.

005employment-insurance-federal-benefitsThe strongest pro-independence case is conditional: Alberta could negotiate transitional service/payment continuity and enact successor income-security programs, but the source pack does not show that such agreements or replacements currently exist.

006employment-insurance-federal-benefitsThe strongest anti-independence / pro-federation case is that continuity for EI and federal income benefits depends on binding agreements, statutory authority, funding, records, service capacity, payment systems, reconsideration/appeal rules, and public instructions.

007employment-insurance-federal-benefitsCPP, OAS, Canada child benefit, and GST/HST credit sources strengthen the federal-benefits side of this topic because they show multiple federal benefit families beyond EI that would need program-by-program treatment.

008employment-insurance-federal-benefitsAlberta's existing income-support program is evidence of provincial benefit administration, but it is not evidence that Alberta already replaces EI, CPP, OAS, child/family benefits, or federal tax-credit delivery.

009employment-insurance-federal-benefitsA responsible continuity plan should publish a program-by-program table covering payment authority, eligibility and contribution records, applications, pending claims, reconsiderations and appeals, data sharing, funding, service channels, and fallback payments.