Annotated Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security Act, 8th Edition, 2009

Description:

• Full text of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Old Age Security Act (OAS) statutes and regulations.
• Section-by-section annotations explain what the legislative provisions mean and how they apply in practice, with cross-references and case digests.
• Disability case table organizes hundreds of key Pension Appeal Board decisions in this area.
• Introductory chapter on disability claims setting out the procedure for hearings before the Pension Appeals Board. It analyzes the meaning of the CPP disability scheme while addressing controversial topics such as the "requirement" of objective evidence and the relevance of personal factors in the wake of the Federal Court of Appeal's decisions in Villani and Rice.

• approximately 70 new digests of decisions issued by the Supreme Court of Canada, Federal Court, Pension Appeals Board, and Review Tribunal over the last year;
• ground-breaking new Federal Court of Appeal decisions on issues such as:
  • capacity to apply for benefits (Danielson)
  • right of Government to be heard on a motion to rescind a final and binding decision (Jagpal)
  • admissibility of new medical evidence (MacRae)
• streamlining of standard of review rules by Supreme Court of Canada (Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick);
• the latest Pension Appeal Board decisions on CPP claims and Review Tribunal decisions on OAS claims, as selected by the experts.