Government of Saskatchewan ministries, Crown corporations and organizations are implementing contingency plans to minimize the impacts of postal service disruption.
Les ministères, sociétés d’État et organismes du gouvernement de la Saskatchewan mettent en œuvre des plans d’urgence visant à réduire les répercussions de l’interruption du service des postes.
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On June 20, 2016, Finance Ministers from eight provinces and the federal government signed an agreement in principle to enhance the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). This enhancement will improve retirement incomes for the next generation of seniors and help families plan toward saving sufficiently for retirement.
To fund the enhanced benefit all employees and employers will contribute more to the CPP. Increased contribution rates will be phased in over seven years, starting January 1, 2019. The gradual phase-in period will enable individuals, employers and the economy time to adjust to the increased contribution rates.
The CPP is a high-quality savings tool that provides a guaranteed, secure monthly income stream to Canadian workers when they retire. The CPP retirement benefit currently replaces a maximum of 25% of earnings, up to the Year's Maximum Pensionable Earnings (YMPE), which approximates the average Canadian wage and is indexed to average wage growth annually. An individual's benefit is computed based on his or her actual earnings and contributions history. In 2016, the maximum annual benefit provided by the CPP to an individual who retires at age 65 is about $13,100; the average annual benefit is about $7,700.
All employees and the self-employed contribute to the CPP throughout their working lives. Employees contribute 4.95% on earnings between $3,500 and the YMPE ($54,900 in 2016), to a maximum of $2,544 in 2016. Employers equally match all contributions made by employees. Self-employed individuals contribute both the employee and employer share, representing 9.9% of earnings between $3,500 and the YMPE, to a maximum of $5,089 in 2016.
The proposed CPP enhancement:
Enhanced benefits will gradually build up as individuals pay into the enhanced CPP, with maximum enhanced benefits achieved in about 40 years. Current retirees or those retiring before 2019 will not have contributed to the CPP enhancement and therefore will not receive enhanced benefits.
The CPP enhancement will require contributions to increase gradually beginning January 1, 2019 as follows1:
(CPP1 refers to existing CPP; CPP2 refers to the enhancement.)
Notes: The YMPE and Upper Earnings Limit amounts in the table are projections prepared by the Office of the Chief Actuary. The contribution rates in the table are estimates, and will need to be officially confirmed by the Office of the Chief Actuary and are subject to secondary design decisions.
* Based on earning thresholds and contribution rates shown in Table 1 which need to be officially confirmed by the Office of the Chief Actuary and subject to secondary design decisions. Assumes constant nominal earnings.
Employee contributions to the enhanced portion of the CPP will be deductible in the calculation of taxable income. A tax credit will continue to apply to employee contributions to the existing CPP.
* Based on earnings thresholds and contribution rates shown in Table 1 which need to be officially confirmed by the Office of the Chief Actuary and subject to secondary design decisions. Assumes constant nominal earnings. Assumes the deduction for the $25,000 wage earner reduces tax by 26% (15% federal rate; 11% provincial rate); and for the $55,000 and $85,000 wage earners reduces tax by 33.5% (20.5% federal rates; 13% provincial rate).
Employers will be required to match all employee contributions (as depicted in Table 2). This means that the proposed CPP enhancement will increase employer contributions gradually, starting in 2019 and continuing until 2025. Contributions will increase by about 0.1% of employee wages in 2019, gradually rising until 2025 to about 0.9% of employee wages for those employees earning up to the YMPE, and to as much as 1.3% of employee wages for those whose earnings are around the Upper Earnings Limit.
Employer contributions to the enhanced portion of the CPP will be deductible in the calculation of the employer's taxable income, as are existing employer CPP contributions.
More details and federal contact information related to the CPP enhancement can be found at the Government of Canada's website Background on Agreement in Principle on Canada Pension Plan Enhancement.
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