Canada Pension Plan

Marginal note:Duration of payment

• 73 (1) Subject to this Act, a survivor’s pension shall continue to be paid during the lifetime of the beneficiary, and shall cease with the payment for the month in which the beneficiary dies.

• Marginal note:Special case

  Footnote ^*(2) If

  • (a) a contributor died on or after January 1, 1998 but before the coming into force of this subsection, and

  • (b) a survivor’s pension was, immediately before that coming into force, payable to a survivor who had been married to the contributor at the time of the contributor’s death,

  the approval of payment of a survivor’s pension, in respect of that contributor’s death, to a survivor who was the contributor’s common-law partner at the time of the contributor’s death and was not a person described in subparagraph (a)(ii) of the definition spouse in subsection 2(1) as that definition read at that time, does not affect the right of the survivor referred to in paragraph (b) to continue to receive the survivor’s pension in accordance with subsection (1).

  • Return to footnote ^*[Note: Subsection 73(2) in force July 31, 2000, see SI/2000-76.]