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Charities have reacted with fury over cuts to health-related Universal Credit payments, and 47 Labour MPs broke ranks to vote ...
If these former MPs live to 90, the total pension payouts could reach nearly $187 million. For a full list of the amounts paid to former members of the Canadian parliament, visit the CTF website.
MPs' pensions are again in the news. No wonder: A recent report on their plans over the year to March 31, 2009 - a period when interest rates fell to unprecedented lows, the stock market lost a ...
By 2017, annual pension contributions will rise to nearly $39,000 from $11,000. Current MPs will be able to collect full benefits at age 55 but those elected in 2015 will have to wait until age 65.
Dozens of MPs are collecting thousands of dollars a year in pensions — several of them from the same federal government that issues their six-figure paycheques, CBC News has learned.
A Canadian member of Parliament asked the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to explain its divestment from two private prison companies.
With the federal government potentially eyeing changes to public sector pensions, there are new calls to alter the pensions that MPs receive.
John Ivison: Lavish MP pensions on chopping block Prime Minister Stephen Harper knows that he cannot ask public servants and Canadian seniors to suffer austerity measures while MPs benefit from ...
OTTAWA - The high-on-the-hog pensions enjoyed by MPs and their $10 million in household mailouts have been singled out for spoof awards from a taxpayers group.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has launched a billboard campaign aimed at changing MP's rich pensions.
Canadian MPs will have to wait upwards of 10 years longer to start collecting their political pensions under changes the Harper government is crafting to demonstrate the Conservatives are leading ...
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation, which has long criticized the pension plan, calculates that for every dollar an MP puts into the program, about $25 is needed from the pockets of taxpayers to ...