Public Service Superannuation Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. P-36)

Marginal note:References to certain sections

24 A reference in subsection 10(6) to section 13 shall be read as including a reference to sections 16 and 17 and a reference in subsection 13(2) or (3) to subsection 13(1) shall be read as including a reference to section 16 and subsections 17(1) and (5).

Correctional Service of Canada

Marginal note:Definition of operational service

24.1 In sections 24.2 to 24.4, operational service means service of a kind designated in the regulations that is carried out in the institution or other premises designated in those regulations in respect of that kind of service, and includes such periods of time spent away from that service as are specified in those regulations.

Marginal note:Special pension plan

24.2 Any person who is employed in operational service by the Correctional Service of Canada on or after March 18, 1994 and who was required by subsection 5(1.1) or (1.2), as it read on December 31, 2012, to contribute to the Superannuation Account or the Public Service Pension Fund or is required by subsection 5(2) to contribute to the Public Service Pension Fund is entitled, at his or her option on ceasing to be employed in the public service, in respect of the operational service that is pensionable service to his or her credit, to an immediate annuity or annual allowance calculated in the manner prescribed by the regulations, in the circumstances and subject to the terms and conditions prescribed by those regulations, in lieu of any benefit to which that person is otherwise entitled under subsection 13(1) or 13.001(1) in respect of that service.

Marginal note:Computation of benefit under subsection 13(1) or 13.001(1)

24.3 If a person is entitled to a benefit under subsection 13(1) or 13.001(1), and section 24.2, the number of years of pensionable service to his or her credit is, for the purpose of computing the benefit to which he or she is entitled under subsection 13(1) or 13.001(1), deemed to be

• (a) the number of years of pensionable service to his or her credit

minus

• (b) the number of years of pensionable service to his or her credit in respect of which he or she is entitled to a benefit under section 24.2.

Marginal note:Additional amount to be contributed

• 24.4 (1) Subject to subsections (2) and 5(6), every person who is employed in operational service by the Correctional Service of Canada on or after March 18, 1994 and who is required by subsection 5(2) to contribute to the Public Service Pension Fund is, except in the circumstances described in subsection 5(3), required to contribute to the Public Service Pension Fund by reservation from salary or otherwise, in addition to any other amount required under this Act, any percentage of his or her salary that is determined by the Treasury Board on the recommendation of the Minister, which recommendation is to be based on actuarial advice.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to any person who is a member of a class of persons prescribed by the regulations.

Marginal note:References to certain sections

24.5 A reference in subsection 10(6) to a benefit specified at the contributor’s option under section 13 or 13.001 shall be read as including a reference to an immediate annuity or annual allowance at the contributor’s option under section 24.2, and a reference in subsection 13(2) or (3) or 13.001(2) or (3) to the immediate annuity, deferred annuity or annual allowance to which the contributor was entitled under subsection 13(1) or 13.001(1) shall be read as including a reference to the contributor’s entitlement to an immediate annuity or annual allowance under section 24.2.

Marginal note:When annuity or annual allowance to be adjusted

24.6 If a person who was employed in operational service by the Correctional Service of Canada and who is receiving an annual allowance payable under section 24.2 is subsequently re-employed in the public service, the amount of any annuity or annual allowance to which he or she may become entitled under this Part on again ceasing to be employed in the public service shall be adjusted in accordance with regulations made under paragraph 42(1)(x.1) to take into account the amount of any annual allowance that he or she has received.

Payments to Survivors, Children and Other Beneficiaries

Marginal note:Lump sum payments

• 25 (1) Where, in this Part, it is provided that the survivor and children of a contributor are entitled jointly to a return of contributions, the total amount of the return shall be paid to the survivor except that

  • (a) if at the time of the death of the contributor all of the children were eighteen years of age or over and at the time the payment is to be made the survivor is dead or cannot be found, the total amount shall be paid to the children in equal shares;

  • (b) if at the time of the death of the contributor any of the children were less than eighteen years of age, and the contributor died without leaving a survivor or at the time the payment is to be made the survivor is dead or cannot be found, the total amount shall be paid to the children in the shares that the Minister considers equitable and proper under the circumstances, or to any of them, as the Minister may direct;

  • (c) if any of the children who were less than eighteen years of age at the time of the death of the contributor are living apart from the survivor at the time the payment is to be made, the total amount shall be paid to the survivor and the children so living apart in the shares that the Minister considers equitable and proper under the circumstances, or to the survivor or any of the children so living apart, as the Minister may direct; and

  • (d) if the contributor died without leaving any children and at the time the payment is to be made the survivor is dead or cannot be found, or if the contributor died without leaving a survivor and at the time the payment is to be made all of the children are dead or cannot be found, the total amount shall be paid

    • (i) if the contributor named his or her estate or succession as beneficiary or named another beneficiary under Part II and the beneficiary survives the contributor, to the beneficiary, and

    • (ii) in any other case, to the estate or succession of the contributor or, if less than one thousand dollars, as the Minister may direct.

• Marginal note:Apportionment when two survivors

  (2) If there are two survivors of a contributor, the share of the total amount to be paid to the survivor referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition “survivor” in subsection 3(1) and the share to be paid to the survivor referred to in paragraph (b) of that definition shall be paid as the Minister may direct.

• Marginal note:Share may be nil

  (2.1) Nothing in subsection (2) is to be read as limiting the Minister’s power to direct that the share of one or other of the survivors under that subsection is nil.

• Marginal note:Allowances paid to children

  (3) When a child of a contributor is entitled to an annual allowance or other amount under this Part, payment of it shall, if the child is less than eighteen years of age, be made to the person having custody and control of the child, or, if there is no person having custody and control of the child, to the person whom the Minister may direct.

• Marginal note:Person considered to be the survivor

  (4) For the purposes of this Part, when a person establishes that he or she was cohabiting in a relationship of a conjugal nature with the contributor for at least one year immediately before the death of the contributor, the person is considered to be the survivor of the contributor.

• Marginal note:Person considered to be married

  (4.1) For the purposes of this Part, when a contributor dies and, at the time of death, the contributor was married to a person with whom the contributor had been cohabiting in a relationship of a conjugal nature for a period immediately before the marriage, that person is considered to have become married to the contributor on the day established as being the day on which the cohabitation began.

• Marginal note:When survivor not to receive annual allowance — waiver

  (5) A survivor is not entitled to receive an annual allowance if the survivor makes an irrevocable waiver under subsection (6).

• Marginal note:Permitted waivers

  (6) A survivor may make an irrevocable waiver in writing only if it results in

  • (a) an increase in the allowance payable to a child under paragraph 12(4)(b) or 12.1(5)(b); or

  • (b) a benefit being paid under section 27.

• Marginal note:Time for waiver

  (7) A waiver must be made no later than three months after the survivor is notified of his or her entitlement to an allowance under this Act and takes effect as of the date of the death of the contributor.

• Marginal note:When survivor not to receive benefits — criminal responsibility for death

  (8) A survivor is not entitled to receive any benefit under this Act with respect to the contributor when the contributor dies and the survivor is found criminally responsible for the death.

• Marginal note:When survivor not to receive annual allowance — missing survivor

  (9) A survivor is not entitled to receive an annual allowance when the contributor dies if it is established to the satisfaction of the Minister that the survivor cannot be found.

• Marginal note:Apportionment of allowance when two survivors

  (10) When an annual allowance is payable under paragraph 12(4)(a) or 12.1(5)(a) or subsection 13(2) or 13.001(2) and there are two survivors of the contributor, the total amount of the annual allowance shall be apportioned so that

  • (a) the survivor referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition “survivor” in subsection 3(1) is entitled to receive the proportion of the annual allowance that the total of the number of years that he or she cohabited with the contributor while married to the contributor and the number of years that he or she cohabited with the contributor in a relationship of a conjugal nature bears to the total number of years that the contributor so cohabited with the survivors; and

  • (b) the survivor referred to in paragraph (b) of that definition is entitled to receive the proportion of the annual allowance that the number of years that he or she cohabited with the contributor in a relationship of a conjugal nature bears to the total number of years that the contributor cohabited with the survivors, either while married or while in a relationship of a conjugal nature.

• Marginal note:Years

  (11) In determining a number of years for the purposes of subsection (10), part of a year shall be counted as a full year if the part is six or more months and shall be ignored if it is less.

• Marginal note:Death, etc. of one of the survivors

  (12) When one of the survivors referred to in subsection (10) dies or is not entitled to receive a benefit under this Act when the contributor dies, the portion of the annual allowance that would have been payable to the survivor who died or is not entitled shall be paid to the remaining survivor in addition to his or her own portion.

Marginal note:Marriage, etc. after retirement

• 26 (1) Subject to section 13.1 but notwithstanding any other provision of this Part, the survivor of a contributor is not entitled to an annual allowance in respect of the contributor under this Part if that contributor married the survivor or began to cohabit with the survivor in a relationship of a conjugal nature after having become entitled under this Part to an annuity or annual allowance, unless, after the marriage, or after the beginning of the period of cohabitation, the contributor became or continued to be a contributor under this Part.

• Marginal note:Child born, etc., after retirement

  (2) Notwithstanding anything in this Part, except as provided in the regulations, a child who is born to or adopted by a contributor or who becomes the stepchild of a contributor after that contributor ceases to be employed in the public service is not entitled to an allowance under this Part.

• Marginal note:Death within one year after marriage

  (3) Notwithstanding anything in this Part, when a contributor dies within one year after marriage, no annual allowance is payable to the survivor of the contributor or the children of that marriage unless it is established to the satisfaction of the Minister that the contributor was at the time of the marriage in such a condition of health as to justify the contributor in having an expectation of surviving for at least one year after the marriage.

• (4) [Repealed, 1989, c. 6, s. 4]

• Marginal note:Saving provision

  (5) Nothing in this section prejudices any right that a child of an earlier marriage of the contributor has to an allowance under any of sections 12 to 13.001.

• Marginal note:Transitional

  (6) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, no person is entitled to an allowance under this Part by virtue of being the survivor of a female contributor unless the contributor, on or after December 20, 1975 but before January 1, 2000, was

  • (a) employed in the public service; and

  • (b) required by subsection 5(1) to contribute to the Superannuation Account.

  Section 2 does not apply in respect of this subsection.

• Marginal note:Transitional

  (7) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, no person is entitled to an allowance under this Part by virtue of being the survivor of a female contributor unless the contributor, on or after January 1, 2000, was

  • (a) employed in the public service; and

  • (b) required by subsection 5(1.1) or (1.2), as it read on December 31, 2012, or by subsection 5(2) to contribute to the Superannuation Account or the Public Service Pension Fund.

  Section 2 does not apply in respect of this subsection.

26.1 [Repealed, 1999, c. 34, s. 77]

Minimum Benefits

Marginal note:Minimum benefits

• 27 (1) This subsection applies to

  • (a) a contributor who was not required to contribute to the Superannuation Account under subsection 5(1) in the period that began on or after December 20, 1975 and that ended on December 31, 1999;

  • (b) a contributor who was not required to contribute to the Superannuation Account or the Public Service Pension Fund under subsection 5(1.1) or (1.2), as it read on December 31, 2012, in the period that began on or after January 1, 2000 and that ended on December 31, 2012; and

  • (c) a contributor who was not required to contribute to the Public Service Pension Fund under subsection 5(2).

  If, on the death of such a contributor, there is no person to whom an allowance provided in this Part may be paid, or if the persons to whom that allowance may be paid die or cease to be entitled to that allowance and no other amount may be paid to them under this Part, any amount by which the amount of a return of contributions exceeds the aggregate of all amounts paid to those persons and to the contributor under this Part and the Superannuation Act shall be paid, as a death benefit, to the contributor’s estate or succession or, if less than $1,000, as the Minister may direct.

• Marginal note:Minimum benefits

  (2) If, on the death of a contributor who was required to contribute to the Superannuation Account under subsection 5(1) in the period that began on or after December 20, 1975 and that ended on December 31, 1999, a contributor who was required to contribute to the Superannuation Account or the Public Service Pension Fund under subsection 5(1.1) or (1.2), as it read on December 31, 2012, in the period that began on or after January 1, 2000 and that ended on December 31, 2012, or a contributor who was required to contribute to the Public Service Pension Fund under subsection 5(2), there is no person to whom an allowance provided in this Part may be paid, or if the persons to whom that allowance may be paid die or cease to be entitled to that allowance and no other amount may be paid to them under this Part, an amount equal to the amount by which

  • (a) the greater of

    • (i) the amount of a return of contributions, and

    • (ii) an amount equal to five times the annuity to which the contributor was or would have been at the time of his death entitled, determined in accordance with subsection 11(1),

  exceeds

  • (b) the aggregate of all amounts paid to those persons and to the contributor under this Part and the Superannuation Act

  shall be paid, as a death benefit,

  • (c) if the contributor named his estate as his beneficiary or named another beneficiary under Part II and the beneficiary survives the contributor, to the beneficiary, and

  • (d) in any other case, to the estate of the contributor or, if less than one thousand dollars, as the Minister may direct.