OAS pensioner [ Old Age Security pensioner ]

An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act and the Old Age Security Act

retired farmer | retired people

old age pension | OAS | Old Age Security | Old Age Security pension | Social Security benefit

Old Age Security pension | Old Age pension

European Interim Agreement on Social Security other than Schemes for Old Age, Invalidity and Survivors

Old Age Security program

Each Member State is free to determine the features of its own social security system, including which benefits are provided, the conditions for eligibility, how these benefits are calculated and what contributions should be paid, and for all social security branches, such as old age, unemployment and family benefits provided that such national contributions respect the principles of EU law, in particular concerning equal treatment and non-discrimination.

Under EU law, social security benefits are benefits provided according to the social security legislation of the Member States in the branches of sickness, maternity and equivalent paternity benefits; old-age pensions, pre-retirement and invalidity benefits; survivors' benefits and death grants; unemployment benefits; family benefits; benefits in respect of accidents at work and occupational diseases.

Competent institutions shall bear in mind the development and impending introduction of Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information (EESSI) in the design and implementation of their internal national systems for the capture and collection of data on the processing and settlement of pension claims.

Supplementary benefit schemes for self-employed persons in craft-trade, industrial or commercial occupations or the liberal professions, supplementary old-age insurance schemes for self-employed persons in the liberal professions, supplementary insurance schemes for self-employed persons in the liberal professions covering invalidity or death, and supplementary old-age benefit schemes for contracted medical practitioners and auxiliaries, as referred to respectively in Articles L.615-20, L.644-1, L.644-2, L.645-1 and L.723-14 of the Social Security Code.