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Payments Canada is headquartered in Ottawa, with an office in Toronto. The organization has 115 members including the Bank of Canada, chartered banks, trust and loan companies, credit union centrals, federations of caisses populaires, and other financial institutions. The Minister of Finance has oversight responsibilities for Payments Canada.
The Phoenix pay system is a payroll processing system for Canadian federal government employees, provided by IBM in June 2011 using PeopleSoft software, and run by Public Services and Procurement Canada. The Public Service Pay Centre is located in Miramichi, New Brunswick. It was first introduced in 2009 as part of Prime Minister Stephen Harper ...
Old Age Security (OAS) is a monthly payment available to qualifying citizens and permanent residents of Canada who are 65 years old and older. Authorized by Section 94A of the Constitution Act of 1867, [1] the program is defined by the Old Age Security Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. O-9). [2] Implementation is the responsibility of the Minister of ...
The Canada Emergency Response Benefit ( CERB; French: Prestation canadienne d'urgence) was a program that provided a taxable benefit of CA$ 2,000 per month for Canadian residents facing unemployment due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [6] [7] [8] Initially announced as providing a maximum of four months' financial support, the federal government ...
Transfer payments are a collection of payments made by the Government of Canada to Canadian provinces and territories under the Federal–Provincial Arrangements Act. [1] Chief among these are the Canada Social Transfer, the Canada Health Transfer and equalization payments. The last of these can be spent however the receiving provinces see fit ...
e. In Canada, the federal government makes equalization payments to provincial governments of lesser fiscal capacity so that "reasonably comparable" levels of public services can be provided at similar levels of taxation. [1] Equalization payments are entrenched in the Constitution Act of 1982, subsection 36 (2).
At one point, the CSL rivaled Europe’s biggest leagues for money spent on transfers. It spent 418 million euros ($453 million) in 2016 and 543 million euros ($589 million) in 2017, according to ...
The Canada Revenue Agency ( CRA; French: Agence du revenu du Canada; ARC) is the revenue service of the Canadian federal government, and most provincial and territorial governments. The CRA collects taxes, administers tax law and policy, and delivers benefit programs and tax credits. [4] Legislation administered by the CRA includes the Income ...