A new poll finds there is growing support for a proposal to lower an Old Age Security (OAS) threshold for some Canadians in order to help reduce the federal government’s deficit.
Seventy-three per cent of Canadians polled this month said they support such a move, which would effectively trim back Old Age Security from higher income tiers, according to Generation Squeeze’s research poll.
Although nearly three quarters of respondents said they supported this proposal, that was on the condition that the savings are used to eliminate seniors’ poverty and reduce living costs for younger generations, the polling found.
Old Age Security is one of the most costly contributors to Ottawa’s roughly $78 billion projected deficit, according to Generation Squeeze, a Canadian think tank advocacy group.
Generation Squeeze says by lowering the current income threshold for when OAS benefits begin to gradually phase out — for couples, from $185,000 down to $100,000 — Ottawa could save up to $7 billion annually.
Old Age Security is a federal benefit available to Canadian seniors aged 65 and older, with certain monthly amounts paid based on income, age and residency.
However, it gives hundreds of dollars a month to seniors with household incomes over $100,000 per year, which has spurred increasing calls from advocates like Generation Squeeze to claw that back from higher income tiers.
Currently, the government of Canada lists those aged 65 to 74 as eligible to receive $742.31 maximum a month if their annual net world income is less than $148,451. Those aged 75 and above are eligible to receive $816.54 maximum a month if their annual net world income is less than $154,196.
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The amounts depend on “age, income, and the number of years you have lived in Canada.”
That is in addition to money individuals are eligible for from the Canada Pension Plan, or from personal or employer retirement savings plans. Lower-income seniors can also get the Guaranteed Income Supplement.
Approximately six in 10 respondents said they would support lowering the threshold even further to $81,000 or less. By doing so, Generation Squeeze says the annual savings would rise to roughly $13 billion.
The Generation Squeeze opinion poll on OAS reform was conducted in partnership with Research Co. from March 12 to March 14, 2026, and about 1,000 Canadians participated.
Generation Squeeze said in a release that based on their findings, only four per cent of seniors are excluded from OAS because their incomes are too high.
By reducing the income threshold for OAS clawbacks as proposed, Generation Squeeze says the top-earning 20 per cent of seniors that receive the payments would see their benefits shrink, and by an average of $3,000 or less per person each year.
The Iran war is the latest curveball for Canadians trying to keep up with the higher cost of living as spiking oil prices have translated into rising costs at the gas pump. Businesses faced with these higher fuel costs are also being pressured and may have to raise prices charged to consumers as a result, including for groceries.
Prior to the war, U.S. tariffs and trade war uncertainty have led business owners to pause hiring plans, leading to a difficult job market in Canada.
The inflation spike since the pandemic combined with higher interest rates have pressured Canadians to cut spending wherever possible to make ends meet.
“Canadians have spoken – clearly and consistently. Prime Minister Mark Carney should use that support to fix and modernize the most expensive line in his budget – and deliver a once-in-a-generation improvement in affordability for young and old alike,” said Generation Squeeze.
Would this be the same 73% who either aren’t collecting OAS or who would not be impacted by such changes if they are collecting OAS..? Of course anyone in their right mind would say yes to more benefits for themselves or less benefits to others that they need not pay for.
I call NONSENSE ON THIS PROPOSAL. Seniors are already struggling with the high cost of living in BC, widows like me whose husband had no insurance because his employer was too darn cheap. Right after he died our Landlord illegally raised my rent by $1000.
I struggle every month and the OAS helps to pay the high cost of living. I’m hoping I die soon so my sons don’t have to fork out a million dollars a month to put me in a home if it gets to that point. You can bet the politicians get their riches when they retire. It’s true, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. So sad. Let seniors have a little dignity for the time we have left.
Maybe have more affordable and safe options for seniors who need additional care? My mother’s savings were desecrated when she had to go into a retirement home due to physical and dementia challenges. The waiting lists for care homes that provide mental health support are ridiculous. She passed away before a spot became available.
This is a much bigger problem for seniors as they age.
This is ridiculous, people worked hard for their incomes which were not hand given, they didn’t create a government deficit, those responsible for the deficit should pay the mess by decreasing their pensions
I am 72 and have a large mortgage due to being a single parent and other financial setbacks. Until I was 70 I worked 2 jobs to ensure a good pension after 70 and I did not take oas so I would get more when I was 70. Now you want to take my oas away??? This will cause me financial hardship. I have to add 1666 dollars every year to my income as I had to do an rrsp HBP for the down-payment. This is ridiculous. With rents for all inclusive seniors being from 4 to 6000 dollars a month and being at a 35% tax bracket you are being ridiculous.
If this is net income I might agree. I gave up my oas until I turned 70 to get a promised oas income increase. Also I worked 2 jobs as a single parent in order to get an extra pension when I was old. So how is this fair.
The costs of living go up and you take away from a vulnerable demographic
We paid our dues for 40 years , Thats 80 years of work between the two of us
If change is going to happen it Shoukd be slow and long so eatery generation can foresee and plan accordingly
We want to work to feel valueable if you do this we will quit our jobs and require increased health care as our physical and mental state diminishes
Rash idea
What about those who have already retired. Not rich by any means. This has been part of retirement planning for millions of people. This could send hundreds of thousands of seniors into a tail spin. Smart planning your whole working life thrown out the door. Do we get our jobs back that we retired from to make up this short fall no questions asked. This is not ok.
Sure while multi-millionaires and billionaire shelter wealth from taxes. Let’s screw the middle class some more.
Hands off. Tired having worked never qualifying for anything and when get to retire and close to collecting you want to take that away. Not acceptable. Look elsewhere. I did my part it’s my turn to get some of my tax dollars back.
What about women. Most women earned less then men. In an abusive relationship a woman might be at a disadvantage and unable to have enough income to make her own decisions.
Absolutly not! Hands off seniors! We spent our whole lobbed building this country! Enough! If seniors have extra money, they can choose to donate it. Otherwise, this is our money we worked and deposited for. Stop trying to make seniors keeping paying for governmental mismanagement. Oh my goodness! Maybe poll seniors who collect cpp.
I also question the rationale for giving OAS to “grandparents” who are 1st generation immigrants but who have never contributed to taxes in Canada and will never do so; yes, I know OAS is not tied to income but providing this benefit just does not feel right to me
For starters quit sending money to the Ukraine and secondly OAS should only be
paid to people who were born in Canada!
Dr Paul Kershaw doesn’t have his information correct. Clawback starts at 90K per annum. Seniors have worked hard to build the foundation of this country and deserve to have OAS. There is GIS for seniors who are eligible. Why give to childcare and GST? When seniors were raising children, we didn’t have childcare subsidies, nor GST. Some seniors have mortgages to pay and reply on the extra income to support our living.
Liberals finding a new way to divide Canadians. They divided the country east against west now they are working to make seniors the boogeymen. Next time it will be the homeowner who will be the privileged. Please wake up and send these clowns to the curb, there are by elections in the future make them count.
Everyone has paid in so no one should be cut. Suggesting that it be cut is absolute horse hocky.
Maybe our over paid politicians should put their name on the list to take a pay cut. This is disgusting.
Higher taxes and less benefits for hardworking competitive
people makes canada a less desirable country to be in for people who can make a difference to its gdp. People are incentivized here not to work , get free government money
We are close to the $100.000 mark. Like many seniors who have worked hard all their lives we have a gone through live changes that have left us living day to day. We don’t own a home and have only one work retirement plan.
Please be careful to not put us in amore financial difficult situation
This is not the first place I would start with Government deficit control. $87,000 is not really a lot when you consider the cost of living and age related expenses. And please don’t frame CPP as being good, it’s a bad and forced pension plan that pays very little back when you consider the time value of the contributions (future valve is about $1 million over 38 year @6% return which pays at most 20k per year in benefit….pennies vs if someone managed it themselves).
Art Mackay needs to learn a few things:
1) Seniors only represent 20% of the population of the country. A minority
2) People and employers don’t pay into these plans. That is CPP. OAS is completely separate
How about trimming salaries for politicians and bureaucrats before touching OAS because we all know that once governments start down the road of justification for cutting OAS it will not end there and our pensions will be next.
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Can anyone explain how 1,000 responses to a survey can possibly reflect the opinion of how people eligible or soon becoming eligible for this benefit feels out having it cut. What percentage of the responses were from seniors?
Since people and employers have paid into these plans don’t be messing with the benefits.
81k to 185k is not rich nowadays lol. That’s lower/middle class. Maybe we can look into other higher income brackets and stop scapegoating boomers or seniors or immigrants or whatever group you have a personal beef with?
Inaccurate article that does not tell the whole story. People making more than $93,454 start to have their OAS clawed back (for 2025). That is based on individual income, whether you are “a couple” or not. It is based on what a person makes, not family income. The clawback continue until you make $151,668, at that point they take it all back. $93K is not a lot of money for a senior living in a city paying $2500 a month for rent, plus big drug bills, etc. This is the second time I’ve seen this misleading article. Saw it last year. “Generation Squeeze Poll”, you get the picture…..
Why? They paid taxes into it. They should get it too. Phuzck off!
Why do people keep generalising that seniors are well off and have their house paid off etc!! I was a single parent most of my life. I had a good job and when I retired costs were much lower. I am now a low income senior who still has a mortgage on my house. Life circumstances that could not have bern anticipated. I struggle to make ends meet every month and sometimes end up in overdraft. No one could have predicted the rapid rise in prices that we have been hit with.
And while we are at it, we should stop paying the OAS to all people who have left Canada and taken up somewhere else as their principal residence.
Rob Peter to pay Paul Paul thinks it is a good idea. Peter does not. Wow! Riveting journalism! Such depth of economic analysis. Such in depth review of how such policies have played out in the past. If someone has more than me, take it away. How profound.
Wonder if they asked the proper question, OAS is clawed back starting at 90,997.00 and OAS is eliminated at 148,451.00. For the “headline effect” probably just asked if OAS should be eliminated for the rich.
Boomers are the whiniest generation alive!
A senior couple with combined net income of $100,000 don’t NEED OAS.
What is the source/nature of this $100,000? CPP – assume $20,000 combined. What makes up the other $80,000?
– workplace pension? If one or both have one, these could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars over their lifetimes
– savings and investments? Assuming an investment return rate of (say) 7%, to generate (say) $50,000 in investment income, they would need to have an investment portfolio worth ~$700,000
– RRIF? Assuming they had RRIF income of (say) $20,000 they’d need to have at ~ $100,000 in their RRIFs
Also, these seniors likely own their home, mtg free
They are wealthy
Seniors pay income tax on OAS as it is, so Canada gets some of the money back.
No thank you. That supplement helps me to survive.
I’m shocked at the comments below. I moved back to Canada in 1997 and since then the governnment has given me:
1Child Tax benefits , 2. Access to RRSPs to deloay my income tax, 3 $400 every year per child every year I put in $2,000 to the RESP – a 20% return!, 4 a TFSA which has allowed me to make a lot of money in the stock market, 5 a booming economy and low interest rates that made my house value go up and up and up, 6 a CPP and a small OAS. I make less than $100,000.
So to heck with you guys. Canada has given me a tremendous amount.
Thus is truly uninformed. At $96000 per year the OAS starts to be clawed back. Has been this way for decades.
Do this now!
Absolutely not people who paid taxes all their lives shouldn’t be punished just to give those that never worked money. We supported welfare people all ourcwirkingbyrs time to give back to worker. Look at netherlands. They give child benefits to working people so they will have more children who will grow up seeing parents working and will educate them so they get jobs
You’re going to read a lot of comments along the lines of:
– “I paid taxes all my life”
– “I worked hard all my life”
– “We built this country”
– “Never received a handout”
– “immigrants *!!?&^$#”
– “I need the OAS so that I don’t need to draw down my RRSP/RRIF or monetize my $2M home”
For those Boomers so proud of themselves, the greatest legacy we – I too am a senior – will leave behind is the $1Trillion we helped add to the national debt during the last 40 yrs we have been voting: “Kids/grandkids: it’s all your now!”
Of course but make sure to send more money to Ukraine . Idiots
Just freeze it where it’s at and let inflation naturally drop the threshold.
The government won’t reduce it as it would upset their most loyal voters.
Yea and with todays inflation the ones that don’t should receive what they are getting now twice a month. I retired from a job that did that.
Kershaw is a Clown maybe his salary should be clawed back.
OAS benefits should not be reduced/removed for those that have lived in Canada their entire lives, paid taxes to Canada their entire lives, did not receive much if any support in government benefits/$s while raising their families and keep their money in Canada (unlike many new immigrants that send their income to family overseas instead of using it to build up Canada). Canada needs to look at how they are spending tax dollars before taking from seniors that have built the country and continue to stay here and support Canadian businesses and pay Canadian taxes. OAS should not be paid to those that have not lived here/paid Canadian taxes for majority of their lives or those that are living overseas in their retirement. Stop reducing benefits for seniors to give to those that don’t/won’t support themselves and continue to look for handouts.
They could SAVE a lot of more $$$ IF the Govt quit wasting $$$…My suggestion is to NOT give OAS to anyone NOT BORN IN CANADA….Imagine how much we tax payers would save doing that??
“Most of us need it to pay high tax on RIF withdrawals” The irony of this statement is priceless!
I HAVE money but to get at it means I have to pay some tax, so I want you – other taxpayers, especially non-seniors – to give me some money (that you will need to borrow and repay. I won’t help in repayment) so that I can pay the tax to access my wealth
Let’s take a look at the salaries of the CBC people. Oh, right…they don’t want you to see that do they.
Then cut the wasted millions that the GG soaks up.
What about the money wasted on the Senate.? See little benefit there.
But nah…screw the seniors if they have shown their worth over the decares of work.
Public servant posted this: “How about not giving OAS to immigrants who come to Canada and never work or contribute to society. They should not be allowed to collect any amount from OAS”
Obviously, PS does not understand that fro an economic/financial POV, seniors are a liability to the country. We produce little/nothing in the way of goods and services (GDP) and we consume a LOT of resources (healthcare, OAS etc).
Immigrants are seen as FUTURE assets. Ottawa HOPES they will become productive (GDP) taxpayers (revenue for govt)
Claw it back, eh???? You all know how much we are paying in income taxes? So reduce it, but do not tax it!!
Governments must and can do alot more before they even consider penalizing the senior citizens, of which they contributed and most importantly deserve such programs
“once again, it is those who saved all their lives and now hope to live relatively comfortably that are punished” If you saved all your lives then you wouldn’t need OAS and wouldn’t expect non-seniors to borrow money to pay you OAS.
Just to pay ONE senior their OAS of ~$9,000, Canada requires 6 (six) other taxpayers each making $30,000/yr (full-time on minimum wage) to generate the tax revenue for that senior’s OAS
“Then give back all the tax money I have contributed.” You don’t contribute to OAS. You contribute to CPP
“who want to scale back OAS for people who did things right” Yeah, liked helped add $1Trillion to the national debt in the past 40 yrs
“There are people who were brought to Canada by there kids and receive Old Age that never worked here.” working in Cda has never been a requirement for OAS eligibility. Also, the amount of OAS one receives is dependent on the # yrs one has been resident in Cda
“Every one who contributed maximum amount to CPP ACCOUNT for 40 years have around one million dollars in CPP ACCOUNT. At 8% investment income, then payout should be 40 000 a year, then we can talk about OAS.” 40 yrs ago, the max one could contribute into CPP was $379.80 for the year. Person making this comment is pushing inaccurate info
“When we were first married and started a family we lived on a single income. We saved our money. Our kids did not go to daycare and we never expected the government to pay for our kids care. We always lived within our means. We paid our fair share of taxes and are still paying taxes. Our Old Age Security Pension should be left alone.
We’ve earned our retirement, never lived off government hand outs. ” Of course you didn’t need daycare. One of you stayed home to watch the kids. Have never lived off govt handouts? That’s what OAS is. Welfare for seniors
The welfare programs for the elderly can be cut, and things like illegal immigration and refugee stasis cannot be touched. Is that what you mean?
First, deal with the unlimited money given to foreigners and foreign nationals (illegal immigrants and refugees), and then consider taking money from Canadians. Otherwise, no amount of money will be enough for the Liberal government to squander.
Older people with high incomes have also been paying taxes to Canada for their entire lives. Why shouldn’t they be given benefits? Is being wealthy wrong? A country and its government should not support idleness or refugees. Instead, they should encourage those who create wealth and work hard.
Trim the pensions of the federal members of parliament and senators who vote for this if it ever get presented from db to dc pension. Stop trying to take money away from average hard working people.
Highly doubt these respondents were Seniors or Soon to be Seniors!
The YOLO Generation – who believes tattoos are a necessity of life, wants to scale back OAS for people who did things right, and saved while others fiddled.
No shock.
These benefits are already taxed out in the hands of these same people, so the ‘gains’ the govt cites will be only that portion left after taxing at their peak rate.., so likely half the numbers they are quoting..
You live your entire life in Canada working and paying taxes, you should receive your Old Age pension. There are people who were brought to Canada by there kids and receive Old Age that never worked here. That’s wrong. I know someone personally who did this and they said everyone is doing it. He was capable of providing for her, she also had children back home to also provide for her. You pay taxes from age 18 and up it’s your right to receive Old Age.
This statement is incorrect: “Currently, the government of Canada lists those aged 65 to 74 as eligible to receive $742.31 maximum a month if their annual net world income is less than $148,451. Those aged 75 and above are eligible to receive $816.54 maximum a month if their annual net world income is less than $154,196.” The maximum eligible begins to decline at about $92K and becomes $0 at the $148K or $152K, as described in the article. Also, OAS amounts are not tied to family income. Rather they depend on the income of individuals. Reducing oas for high income earners is reasonable but this article misrepresents how eligible amounts are determined.
UBC Professor Dr. Paul Kershaw is founder, of more like;
“Generation-Squeeze-Out-Seniors”.
A lot of folks are getting the OAS confused with the CPP. Your deductions from your paycheque go towards your Canada Pension Plan. The OAS is a top up if your income for the year is below a certain threshold. Now the OAS is an automatic enrolment that usually kicks in a month after you turn 65. You can delay it to 71, but you only get about $50 more. You have to request the delay BEFORE you start to receive it. Now the CPP is something that you have to activate yourself. Starting as early as age 60. If you wait until age 70, you do get significantly more.
OK will shut up after this one – I am sure we spend more health care money on sick people vs healthy people – should we have a poll to determine if we should spend less on the sick ?
Maybe more on the healthy ?
hmmm
Go and earn your retirement money first before you come with your great ideas
So to simplify – under 65 gets the same treatment once they turn 65. Do the comparison on any given year you choose – take 40 – same deal. gee. Lets not be fooled by labels created for the benefit of lobby groups with their inside agenda or some other ‘influencers’.
Getting news is harder to get these days.
Every one who contributed maximum amount to CPP ACCOUNT for 40 years have around one million dollars in CPP ACCOUNT. At 8% investment income, then payout should be 40 000 a year, then we can talk about OAS.
This kind of comparison is really really really misleading and close to stupid. An average person that living to 82 years old is the same person during tha less than 65 ( non senior) and over 65 ( senior). Same person. The total or average per year spending on the person remains the same during the lifetime of said person. c’mon people get real and do some thinking here please.
Dr. Kershaw obviously is receiving a very decent salary and is likely very affluent. I don’t know how old he is or if he has a family. Obviously he is living the high life as he mentioned in his video he lives in Vancouver where houses a very expensive.
My husband and I are both seniors. When we were first married and started a family we lived on a single income. We saved our money. Our kids did not go to daycare and we never expected the government to pay for our kids care. We always lived within our means. We paid our fair share of taxes and are still paying taxes. Our Old Age Security Pension should be left alone.
We’ve earned our retirement, never lived off government hand outs. The young generation now expects the government to subsidize their lifestyle, living beyond their means. We lived according to what we could afford while raising our family.
May I remind you what happened when Harper raised the age for OAS from 75 to 77. He lost the seniors vote in the next election and lost the election as a result. Seniors vote. Any political party daring to change the OAS benefit would be sorry, guaranteed. These voters are people who paid taxes for 45+ years . To take away a benefit to give to people who have only contributed a few years is criminal.
Really ? This item is a poll driven decision ? Who or what is Generation Squeeze? Where is the actuarial analysis?
Omg really screw off conman liberals
Then give back all the tax money I have contributed.
Article is misleading. Clawback of OAS begins at total individual income of $93,000 and those earning $148,451, receive 0 dollars.
once again, it is those who saved all their lives and now hope to live relatively comfortably that are punished. I say, cut OAS to all those who haven’t paid taxes for the past 20 years first. Does the government plan to pay our long term care costs in the future by stripping responsible seniors of their income growth? What a short sighted suggestion!
Thumbs up to Bill Roach’s comment. So my brother in law can lease a fancy car during his adult years, save nothing and get full OAS in retirement while I save diligently, defer consumption only to see it slashed for being a cautions saver. All these folks saying it should be reduced for those of us who saved money are acting like crabs in a bucket. Just like everything else policy wise in the Country its always bass-ackwards
So work hard all your life pay taxes and save for retirement and then get punished when you retire !!! Or p i s s it all away live on welfare avoid taxes and get rewarded with all the benefits when you retire.
Canada is a freaking disgrace
sorry we gave all our money out around the world and billions and fraud. None left for you honest hard-working taxpayers
Canada is finished get out while you can
It’s their money. They paid into it their whole life’s. These media outlets are just trying to convince people to give up more money to the government.
Whose poll is this? Sometimes I wonder how accurate this is. I highly doubt the majority would support losing more money to government.
Seniors like myself paid taxes for OAS , etc our entire working lives. Just because a survey from lower income retirees who chose to retire early and then say its OK to tax seniors who planned for their retirement doesnt make it right! Its easy to take their someone elses pensions. I worked to 68 to ensure I had a good income for retirement but now get penalized. For example everytime i take money out of my RRIF and I pay 52% in taxes which is more than the original benefit was. I no longer qualify for the age exemption. It seems like more ofmy hard earned retirement money is going to support low income seniors who didnt plan for the long term but now want government taxes on the “rich” to help them .. Canada is becoming the most socialist country in the world where sucess is now a liability!
Want to save money. Stop giving billions to the Indians.
Of course it’s Generation Squeeze. Why don’t they focus on wasteful government spending instead!
How about not giving OAS to immigrants who come to Canada and never work or contribute to society. They should not be allowed to collect any amount from OAS
Your article is futile. OAS is reduced if income is above the world income threshold already. CRA imposes a recovery tax if that’s the case. From 15% to all of their payment for 1 year.
This as politicians giv themselves a nice generous wage hike on the taxpayers dime? Trim all governance by 50% makes much more sense and dollars.
Hands off my OAS. I worked all my life & managed to save for my old age. I donate my hard earned dollars to help certain organizations plus give to needy family members. I do not need an inefficient government dept. to take away & distribute my OAS.
With the cost of living today, seriously? Between groceries, gas, and every company you deal with jacking up their fees, this is a ridiculous notion. Many of us can’t retire because of the current cost of living and many more who were once retired have had to find part time work to make ends meet.
LOWER THE INCOME OF POLITICIANS!
By reducing the threshold on oas clawback couples with only one pension income would be adversely effected. With pension splitting the spouse with no income would then see their oas clawed back. This would also make it impossible for couples to make withdrawals from their hard earned savings in RRSP’s to not be effected by the clawback. We need to support our seniors that built this country and not destroy their retirement years.
The survey is false. Thee complete recent narratives on this subject is testing the public opinion on the potential changes. I suggest you live OAS alone. Any changes will not go well for the party in power. People worked very hard for very long to secure their retirement. Stop yet again squeezing the midle class as this is exacly that. They pay the most taxes in Canada. But might start leaving Canada. Tax more billioners. Stop government waste. Make politicians accountable for failed projects. Like LRT. Cut GIS for those with assets. Or those seniors that are receiving undetected/unreported pensions in other countries. Investigate huge number of businesses that work for cash only and pay no taxes. Hire investigators and inspectors.
It is really great to punish the folks that built this Country, when it is the greedy politicians, with their spend, spend, spend, strategy and their ever increasing salaries that is the real cause of our demise. Cut politicians wages they seem to get increases for being inept at running a financial budget, punish the people who are expendable, but more importantly punish those that gave everything and now thrown on the trash heap!!!!!
Give money to support immigrants living here. Give money for indiginous reconciliation, give money to ukraine, give money to cuba. Give money to…
We are out of money now. Lets take from senior so we can give more away.
Having worked all my life and still do at age 76, to hear mouthpiece of generation squeeze speak to clawing back from cpp and oas and suggesting a poll of 1000 individuals recommending meddling with retirement funds, well semi retirement, well no retirement, well still working to survive or become a liability to myself it pains me to hear such biased opinions from these individuals that can’t recognize we old individuals of the working class don’t appreciate being fiscally responsible to them and their lack of wisdom. Hands off please.
How about we trim GOVERNMENT SPENDING and how they live like royalty off of our money. Think 97 k for inflight catering for one flight
The most costly contributor to Ottawas nearly $80 billion deficit is over inflated governments with no regard to their spending money of the hard working Canadian people, more that 2/3 rds of the deficit has been spent in a frivolous manner by enriching the the government beurocrats …if they did not collect pensions while working and collecting pensions there’d because lot less of deficit as well.
Here’s a thought maybe trim back government positions remove the pensions perks they and oy they enjoy and restructure the services to be incentivized with private industry so others can make a buck instead of the government always taking away…maybe learn to give a little 😉
Cut back on Federal Gov’t waist and hide the keys to Carney’s plane and then it won’t be necessary to pick on the seniors.
maybe make sure people have had to work an lived in Canada for 30 years, not the 10 years
They did not ask me. It’s not fair to people who worked and deserve OAS.
I think there are many government handouts that would first need to be reconsider before you begin looking at messing with our senior citizens ability to make ends meet. Would be interesting see a break down of the 1,00o people who participated in this poll!
Nonsense. Who actually thinks our government under the liberals for past 11 years has spend money more wisely than we the citizens have? Government must cut spending and make ends meet like all of us have to do.
I will NOT vote for any politician/party that supports this. Clawback already starts at $93k which is not “wealthy” in today’s economy. Most of us need it to pay high tax on RIF withdrawals and still put food on the table
Here is a thought, how about we lose all these federal government programs and let people start saving their own money for retirement because had we saved our own money we would have saved hundreds of thousands MORE DOLLARS then we retirees get back from these government created programs and possibility of LOSING ALL OUR MONEY because of financial incompetence of those people who manage our money. My father and sister worked all their lives and died at 62, never got one cent from CPP OR OAS and their estate got nothing back. Government kept it all.
Cut government waste and MP’s salaries, not seniors’ livelihoods
Most seniors no longer have employment income so they are living off their savings and investments. Although some seniors may have higher incomes, why should their OAS be clawed back for planning their retirement better than others. They are already paying higher taxes for their higher income so in effect they are receiving less OAS.
Can we quit ‘cherry picking’ social programs? What about a threshold for the child benefit?
If we could trust the govt to give the poor elderly people a living wage it would be a miracle.Since those funds came from them they’re whole working lives.It makes me mad that so many live on poverty wages.But the lower income would probably only get an extra 20 dollars as usual and it’s a slap in th face really.We all know that there is a huge surplus of funds just sitting there.The govt better not try to spend that money elsewhere.
Sure. Fine the ones that saved for their retirement and contributed to the tax coffers the most
GIS should also be based on the assets, not income amount.
LOL . Political SUICIDE for any politician actually putting this forward. Would be about as popular as a capital gain on your principal residence.
All segments of the population should pay their fair share of taxes including First Nations. Lowering the individual income clawback to $75,000 or $80,000 would be a good start, but definitely nothing based on household income, lower than this, you’re definitely NOT a rich senior especially after having worked most of your life
If only the savings were used wisely instead of fueling other expensive/useless government programs.
Many people think seniors have giant incomes. Most of us have the CPP and OAS and nothing else. If you have both, then you do not qualify for GIS.
The poll is correct, OAS is for those who need it. And the money clawed back from those who do not, should augment OAS for those who do. Canada claims poor is defined this year as $54k or less. Many seniors, born Canadian do not make the poverty level.