Documents reveal concerns, effects of CPP benefit limits for widows and widowers
OTTAWA — Sheila was 62 when her husband died.
For three years she continued to work full time as a nurse, collecting survivor benefits under the Canada Pension Plan.
When Sheila retired at age 65 and began collecting her CPP retirement pension, she bumped into the financial ceiling the government places on the amounts retirees can receive under the public pension scheme and the survivor pension disappeared.
Internal government documents show that the cap on benefits is a key complaint about the program that retirees want the government to address.