Retirement Income Security Posts

Canada’s poor seniors targeted by Tory OAS cutbacks, CARP says

February 24, 2012

This article was originally published in the Vancouver Observer.  To view this article and other ones like it on the ...

Federal Budget 2012: Seniors’ poverty could rise with OAS cuts

February 22, 2012

This article was published by the Toronto Star on February 20th 2012. To see this article and other related articles on ...

Is CARP’s “Hands off OAS” campaign starting to take root?

February 22, 2012

This article was published on the Financial Post website on February 21st 2012.  To see this article and other related ...

Government shifts OAS argument to new audience: younger voters

February 21, 2012

This article was published by the Calgary Herald on February 21st 2012.  To see this article and other related ...

TFSAs drive up costs for public pension benefits

February 18, 2012

This article was published by the Canadian Press on February 18th 2012.  OTTAWA — A popular savings program created ...

Rob Carrick: Adjust clawback to solve OAS conundrum

February 16, 2012

This article was published by the Globe and Mail on February 15th 2012.  To see this article and other related ...

What the Prime Minister SaidThen vs. Now

February 10, 2012

2005: Stephen Harper is a champion that will defend public pensions and erosion In 2005 when Harper campaigned against ...

OAS/Health Care Quality Poll Report

February 10, 2012

February 10, 2012   KEY FINDINGS Click here to see a PDF copy of the full poll report that includes all of the ...

PM’s new policy would force up to 50,000 to live in poverty for two more years

February 10, 2012

In his speech at Davos Switzerland, Prime Minister Harper set the tone for the debate on Old Age Pensions using ...

Bob Rae: Let’s Protect Old Age Security by Improving it, not Cutting it

February 10, 2012

By now you’ve probably heard the Prime Minister say that Canada’s Old Age Security (OAS) program is unaffordable.  ...