Canada Pension Plan — C-8 44
Benefits payable 44 (1) Subject to this Part, (a) a retirement pension shall be paid to a contributor who has reached sixty years of age; (b) a disability pension shall be paid to a contributor who has not reached sixty-five years of age, to whom no retirement pension is payable, who is disabled and who (i) has made base contributions for not less than the minimum qualifying period, (ii) is a contributor to whom a disability pension would have been payable at the time the contributor is deemed to have become disabled if an application for a disability pension had been received before the contributor’s application for a disability pension was actually received, or (iii) is a contributor to whom a disability pension would have been payable at the time the contributor is deemed to have become disabled if a division of unadjusted pensionable earnings that was made under section 55 or 55.1 had not been made; (iv) [Repealed, 1997, c. 40, s. 69] (c) a death benefit shall be paid to the estate or succession of a deceased contributor who has made base contributions for not less than the minimum qualifying period; (d) a survivor’s pension shall be paid (i) before 2019, to the survivor of a deceased contributor who has made base contributions for not less than the minimum qualifying period, if the survivor (A) has reached 65 years of age, or (B) in the case of a survivor who has not reached 65 years of age, (I) had at the time of the death of the contributor reached 35 years of age, (II) was at the time of the death of the contributor a survivor with dependent children, or (III) is disabled, and (ii) after 2018, to the survivor of a deceased contributor who has made base contributions for not less than the minimum qualifying period; (e) a disabled contributor’s child’s benefit shall be paid to each child of a disabled contributor who (i) has made base contributions for not less than the minimum qualifying period, (ii) is a contributor to whom a disability pension or a post-retirement disability benefit would have been payable at the time the contributor is deemed to have become disabled if an application for a disability pension or a post-retirement disability benefit had been received before the application was actually received, or (iii) is a contributor to whom a disability pension or a post-retirement disability benefit would have been payable at the time the contributor is deemed to have become disabled if a division of unadjusted pensionable earnings that was made under section 55 or 55.1, had not been made; (iv) [Repealed, 1997, c. 40, s. 69] (f) an orphan’s benefit shall be paid to each orphan of a deceased contributor who has made base contributions for not less than the minimum qualifying period; (g) a post-retirement benefit shall be paid to a beneficiary of a retirement pension under this Act or under a provincial pension plan who has made a contribution in respect of the post-retirement benefit; and (h) a post-retirement disability benefit shall be paid to a beneficiary of a retirement pension who has not reached 65 years of age and is disabled if (i) the beneficiary has made base contributions for not less than the minimum qualifying period and that period ends after 2018, (ii) the beneficiary is a contributor to whom a post-retirement disability benefit would have been payable at the time the contributor is deemed to have become disabled if an application for a post-retirement disability benefit had been received before the application was actually received, or (iii) the beneficiary is a contributor to whom a post-retirement disability benefit would have been payable at the time the contributor is deemed to have become disabled if a division of unadjusted pensionable earnings that was made under section 55 or 55.1 had not been made. (1.1) [Repealed, 2018, c. 12, s. 372] Calculation of minimum qualifying period in case of disability pension and disabled contributor’s child’s benefit (2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b)