Rudy Buttignol, president of the Canadian Association of Retired Persons says recent research from Wellesley Institute highlights the need for the government to do a better job engaging with older adults.
More than 10,000 low-income Torontonians are not accessing the Old Age Security benefits they're entitled to, according to new research by Wellesley Institute and Open Policy Ontario.Rudy Buttignol, president of the Canadian Association of Retired Persons, says recent research from Wellesley Institute highlights the need for the government to do a better job engaging with older adults.
"The rules that affect immigrants are very different than those that apply to people who have lived here all their lives. And that's perhaps the source of the confusion," Stapleton said.Department in charge of Old Age Security doesn't know if payments are enough, auditor finds The report uses survey and census data from Statistics Canada to examine OAS uptake among Toronto residents and further breaks this data down by income, immigration status, visible minority status and language proficiency.
"This voluntary deferral provision gives individuals the option of waiting as late as age 70 to start collecting their OAS pension and to increase their pension by 0.6 percent for each month they delay it, for a total of 7.2 percent for each full year of deferral," the spokesperson said, noting that the percentage of seniors receiving the pension at age 70 and over was 99 per cent of the estimated total number of eligible seniors aged 70 and over in the 2023-24 fiscal year.
"The biggest improvement can be made in physical one-to-one contact, making it easier for people to speak to human beings whether it be telephone calls to help people through the application process, or having the ability to access a government services office easily," Buttignol said.
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