Canada Pension Plan

Marginal note:When disabled contributor’s child’s benefit ceases to be payable

• 76 (1) A disabled contributor’s child’s benefit ceases to be payable with the payment for the month in which

  • (a) the child ceases to be a dependent child;

  • (b) the child dies;

  • (c) the contributor’s disability pension or post-retirement disability benefit ceases to be payable;

  • (d) the child is adopted legally or in fact by someone other than the disabled contributor or the disabled contributor’s spouse or common-law partner, unless the disabled contributor is maintaining the child, as defined by regulation; or

  • (e) the disabled contributor ceases to have parenting time or decision-making responsibility in respect of the child, if the child is a child as defined in subsection 42(1) by reason of the disabled contributor having had that parenting time or decision-making responsibility.

• Marginal note:When orphan’s benefit ceases to be payable

  (2) An orphan’s benefit ceases to be payable with the payment for the month in which the child ceases to be a dependent child or dies.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (3) Where, by reason of the death of a contributor, a disabled contributor’s child’s benefit ceases to be payable to a person who is 18 years of age or older at the time of that death, an application under section 60 for an orphan’s benefit shall be deemed to have been made by that person in the month in which the contributor died.