If anybody thinks they will get the $2,500 death benefit if a spouse passes away, think twice.
The only way they are entitled to it if they have contributed to it for 10 years since the Canada pension plan went into affect in 1966.
They don't prorate it like your entitlement for Canada pension when you draw it after the age of 60, and also the spouse does not get any spousal allowance either.
My wife passed away and only contributed into it for seven years from when the pension plan first started, although she worked full time from 1956 until 1973, and then took the choice to be a full time mother and raise the kids.
I think it should be prorated, like so much a year that they contributed into it, not the full $2,500 until they have paid into the pension plan for 10 years or more
I sent a letter to our MP in Prince George about it, but I might as well have made a paper airplane out of it and threw it in the air.
I appealed this to Victoria and got two letters back rejecting my appeal.
I should've sent it to the opposition party and that I might do yet, it seems they are the only ones that fight for things for us.
William Bates
Prince George
