-Excerpted from the News.Ontario.ca website- Ontario is moving forward with its commitment to strengthen retirement income security for Ontarians by announcing further design details of the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP), modelled on the strengths and principles of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). Information for Employees: By 2020, every eligible worker in Ontario will be [...]
Recently, Green Shield Canada (GSC) came out with their 2014 Health Study. This was an innovative look at the trends this large Insurer is seeing in their block of business. The results have been sorted by age bands and includes health claims data; in addition to the more familiar drug data. High level, we learned [...]
VRSP stands for "Voluntary Retirement Savings Plan" and was introduced in March 2012 by the Province of Quebec. There are more than 1.1 million Quebecers who don't have access to a workplace savings plan, and one of the government's goals for the VRSP is to address this problem. The plan is tailored to meet the [...]
