Old Age Security Act — O-9 22
Definitions 22 (1) In this section, base calendar year has the same meaning as in section 10; ( année de référence ) current fiscal year [Repealed, 1998, c. 21, s. 116] current payment period means the payment period in respect of which an application for an allowance is made under this Part; ( période de paiement en cours ) income , for the purposes of determining the amount of benefits under this Part that may be paid for a month before July 1, 1999, means the income calculated as prescribed by section 13; ( revenu de l’année civile ) monthly income of a survivor in a current payment period is the amount that equals one-twelfth of their income for the base calendar year; ( revenu mensuel du survivant ) monthly joint income of a pensioner and their spouse or common-law partner in a current payment period is the amount that equals 1/12 of the total of both of their incomes for the base calendar year; however, for the purpose of calculating the allowance that may be paid to the pensioner’s spouse or common-law partner under subsection (3) for either of the following periods, it is the amount that equals 1/12 of the income of the spouse or common-law partner for the base calendar year: (a) the months during which the pensioner is an incarcerated person described in subsection 5(3), exclusive of the first month of incarceration and the month of release; or (b) if a direction made under subsection 19(8) in respect of the spouse or common-law partner has not been cancelled under subsection 19(9), the months, exclusive of the first month, during which the spouse or common-law partner is not living with the pensioner in a dwelling maintained by one or the other of them; ( revenu conjoint mensuel ) pension equivalent means, in respect of any month in a payment quarter, the amount of the full monthly pension payable for that month under section 7 that has not been increased under subsection 7(5); ( valeur de la pension ) residual income of the survivor for a month in a current payment period means the amount determined by the formula A - B where A is the monthly income of the survivor in the current payment period, and B is the product (a) obtained by multiplying four-thirds of the rounded pension equivalent by the survivor’s special qualifying factor for the month, and (b) rounded, where that product is not a multiple of four dollars, to the next higher multiple of four dollars; ( revenu résiduel du survivant ) residual joint income of a pensioner and the pensioner’s spouse or common-law partner for a month in a current payment period means the amount determined by the formula A - B where A is the monthly joint income of the pensioner and the pensioner’s spouse or common-law partner in the current payment period, and B is the product (a) obtained by multiplying four-thirds of the rounded pension equivalent by the spouse’s or common-law partner’s special qualifying factor for the month, and (b) rounded, where that product is not a multiple of four dollars, to the next higher multiple of four dollars; ( revenu conjoint résiduel ) rounded pension equivalent means the pension equivalent rounded to the next higher multiple of three dollars when the pension equivalent is not a multiple of three dollars; ( valeur arrondie de la pension ) rounded supplement equivalent means the supplement equivalent rounded to the next higher multiple of one dollar when the supplement equivalent is not a multiple of one dollar; ( valeur arrondie du supplément ) supplement equivalent means, in respect of any month in a payment quarter, the amount of the supplement that would be payable for that month under subsection 12(1), (1.1), (1.2), (2), (3) or (4), as the case may be, to a pensioner whose spouse or common-law partner is also a pensioner when both the pensioner and the spouse or common-law partner have no income in the base calendar year and both are in receipt of a full pension; ( valeur du supplément ) supplement equivalent for the survivor means, in re