1 (1) In this Act, “allowance” means, unless the context indicates otherwise, an allowance authorized to be paid under Part III of the Old Age Security Act
(Canada); (“allocation”) “applicant” means a person who has applied for an increment; (“auteur de la demande”) “application” means an application for an increment under this Act; (“demande”) “base calendar year” means the calendar year ending next before the commencement of the current fiscal year; (“année de référence”) “basic monthly income” of a beneficiary for a month means, (a) for any month in which the beneficiary is unmarried and is not in a common-law partnership, and for which the beneficiary is entitled to receive in the month a pension or a supplement, an amount equal to the sum of one-twelfth of his or her income for the base calendar year, plus the amount of any pension or supplement that the beneficiary is entitled to receive in the month, (b) for any month throughout the whole of which the beneficiary is married to or is in a common-law partnership with a person who is entitled to receive in the month an increment and a pension or a supplement, and for which the beneficiary is entitled to receive a pension or a supplement, an amount equal to one-twenty-fourth of the aggregate of the incomes for the base calendar year of the beneficiary and his or her spouse or common-law partner, plus the amount of any pension or supplement that the beneficiary is entitled to receive in the month, (c) for any month throughout the whole of which the beneficiary is married to or is in a common-law partnership with a person who is not entitled to receive in the month a pension or a supplement, and for which the beneficiary is entitled to receive a pension or a supplement, an amount equal to one-twenty-fourth of the aggregate of the incomes for the base calendar year of the beneficiary and his or her spouse or common-law partner, minus the lesser of, (i) one-half of the amount of any pension that the beneficiary is entitled to receive in the month, or (ii) an amount equal to one-twenty-fourth of the aggregate of the incomes for the base calendar year of the beneficiary and his or her spouse or common-law partner, plus, (iii) the amount of any pension or supplement that the beneficiary is entitled to receive in the month, (d) for any month in which the beneficiary is unmarried and is not in a common-law partnership, and for which the beneficiary is not entitled to receive a pension or a supplement, an amount equal to one-twelfth of his or her income for the base calendar year, (e) for any month throughout the whole of which the beneficiary is married to or is in a common-law partnership with a person who is entitled to receive in the month an increment, and for which neither the beneficiary nor his or her spouse or common-law partner is entitled to receive a pension or a supplement, an amount equal to one-twenty-fourth of the aggregate of the incomes for the base calendar year of the beneficiary and his or her spouse or common-law partner, (f) for any month throughout the whole of which the beneficiary is married to or is in a common-law partnership with a person who is not entitled to receive in the month an increment, a pension or a supplement, and for which the beneficiary is not entitled to receive a pension or a supplement, (i) where the aggregate of the incomes for the base calendar year of the beneficiary and his or her spouse or common-law partner is less than an amount equal to 12 times the maximum amounts of pension and supplement that are authorized to be paid in that month under the Old Age Security Act (Canada) to a person who is not married and is not in a common-law partnership, an amount equal to one-twelfth of the aggregate of the incomes for the base calendar year of the beneficiary and his or her spouse or common-law partner or, (ii) where the aggregate of the incomes for the calendar year of the beneficiary and his or her spouse or common-law partner is not less than an amount equal to 12 times the maximum amounts of pension and supplement that are authorized to be paid in that month under the Old Age Security Act (Canada) to a person who is not married and is not in a common-law partnership, and is less than an amount equal to the sum of, (A) an amount equal to 24 times the amount of the pension that is authorized to be paid in the month under the Old Age Security Act (Canada), (B) an amount equal to 12 times the maximum amount of supplement that is authorized to be paid in the month under the Old Age Security Act (Canada) to a person who is not married and is not in a common-law partnership, and (C) $48, an amount equal to the sum of the amount of the pension that is authorized to be paid in the month under the Old Age Security Act (Canada), plus the maximum amount of the supplement that is authorized to be paid in that month under the Old Age Security Act (Canada) to a person who is not married and is not in a common-law partnership or, (iii) where the aggregate of the incomes for the base calendar year of the beneficiary and his or her spouse or common-law partner is equal to or greater than the sum of the amounts described in sub-subclauses (ii) (A), (B) and (C), an amount equal to the sum of, (A) the amount equal to one-thirty-sixth of the result obtained by subtracting from the amount of the aggregate of the incomes for the base calendar year of the beneficiary and his or her spouse or common-law partner the sum of the amounts described in sub-subclauses (ii) (A) and (B) and $12, (B) the amount of the pension that is authorized to be paid in the month under the Old Age Security Act (Canada), and (C) the maximum amount of the supplement that is authorized to be paid in the month under the Old Age Security Act (Canada) to a person who is not married and is not in a common-law partnership, or (g) for any month throughout the whole of which the beneficiary is married to or is in a common-law partnership with a person who is entitled to receive an increment and a pension or supplement, and for which the beneficiary is not entitled to receive a pension or supplement, an amount equal to one-twelfth of the aggregate of the incomes for the base calendar year of the beneficiary and his or her spouse or common-law partner, plus the aggregate of, (i) the amount of any increment, and (ii) the amount of any pension or supplement, that the spouse or common-law partner of the beneficiary is entitled to receive in the month; (“revenu mensuel de base”) “beneficiary” means a person to whom payment of an increment has been approved; (“prestataire”) “common-law partner” has the meaning given to it by section 2 of the Old Age Security Act (Canada); (“conjoint de fait”) “common-law partnership” means the relationship between two persons who are common-law partners of each other; (“union de fait”) “current fiscal year” means the fiscal year in respect of which an application for an increment is made by an applicant or on his or her behalf; (“exercice en cours”) “defined income” means any amount that is a supplement, a pension, an allowance, a payment similar to a supplement, pension or allowance under a law of a province of Canada, a private pension income, a benefit, other than a death benefit, under the Canada Pension Plan or a provincial pension plan as defined in section 3 of the Canada Pension Plan, and any amount that is income prescribed for the purpose of this definition; (“revenu déterminé”) “eligible person” means a person who, (a) has attained 65 years of age or such lesser age as may be prescribed, (b) is actually residing in Ontario and is entitled to receive a supplement that is paid to the person or to his or her credit through the Ontario regional office of the Income Security Programs Branch of Human Resources Development Canada, (c) has resided in Canada for the ten years immediately preceding the date on which his or her application is approved or, if the person has not so resided in Canada, has either, (i) been present in Canada, prior to those ten years and after attaining 18 years of age, for a continuous period of, or for periods the aggregate of which is, at least equal to three times the aggregate periods of absence from Canada during those ten years, and has resided in Canada for at least one year immediately preceding the date on which his or her application is approved, or (ii) resided in Canada, after attaining 18 years of age and prior to the date on which his or her application is approved, for a continuous period, or for periods the aggregate of which is, at least forty years, and (d) has resided in Ontario for a period of one full year immediately prior to the date on which his or her application is approved or, after attaining 18 years of age and prior to the date on which his or her application is approved, has resided in Ontario for a continuous period, or for periods the aggregate of which is, at least twenty years; (“personne admissible”) “fiscal year” means, in relation to a month, (a) the period of 12 consecutive months, commencing on April 1, that includes the month, if the month is before April, 1998, (b) the period commencing on April 1, 1998 and ending on June 30, 1999, if the month is in that period, or (c) the period of 12 consecutive months, commencing on July 1, that includes the month, if the month is after June, 1999; (“exercice”) “guaranteed income limit” means, unless a higher amount is prescribed, (a) in the case of a beneficiary who is described in clause (a), (d) or (f) of the definition of “basic monthly income”, or who is described in clause (c) of the definition of “basic monthly income” and is married to, or is in a common-law partnership with, a person who is not entitled to receive an allowance authorized to be paid under Part II of the Old Age Security Act (Canada), the amount of $5,447.52, (b) in the case of a beneficiary who is described in clause (b) or (e) of the definition of “basic monthly income”, the amount of $5,117.52, (c) in the case of a beneficiary described in clause (c) of the definition of “basic monthly income” and who is married to, or is in a common-law partnership with, a person who is entitled to receive an allowance authorized to be paid under Part II of the Old Age Security Act
(Canada), the amount of $4,889.88, and (d) in the case of a beneficiary described in clause (g) of the definition of “basic monthly income”, the amount of  $10,235.02; (“revenu maximal garanti”) “income for the base calendar year” of a person means the person’s income, as defined in section 2 of the Old Age Security Act
(Canada), for that calendar year; (“revenu pour l’année de référence”) “increment” means the monthly guaranteed annual income increment authorized to be paid under this Act; (“supplément provincial”) “Minister” means the Minister of Finance; (“ministre”) “pension” means a monthly pension authorized to be paid under Part I of the Old Age Security Act (Canada); (“pension”) “prescribed” means prescribed by regulation; (“prescrit”) “previous fiscal year” means the fiscal year next before the current fiscal year; (“exercice précédent”) “qualifying date” means the 1st day of July, 1974 or, in the case of an individual who is not an eligible person on that date, the first date after the 1st day of July, 1974 on which such individual becomes an eligible person; (“date d’admissibilité”) “regulation” means a regulation made under this Act; (“règlement”) “supplement” means a monthly guaranteed income supplement authorized to be paid under Part II of the Old Age Security Act
(Canada). (“supplément”)  R.S.O. 1990, c. O.17, s. 1; 1999, c. 9, s. 168; 2000, c. 42, s. 81 (1-8); 2023, c. 8, Sched. 8, s. 1. Interpretation, marriage (2) A reference in this Act to a month throughout the whole of which the beneficiary is married to a person includes the month in which the beneficiary ceases to be married as a result of the death of his or her spouse or otherwise, and a reference to a month in which the beneficiary is unmarried does not include the month in which the beneficiary so ceases to be married.  2000, c. 42, s. 81 (9). Same, common-law partnership (3) A reference in this Act to a month throughout the whole of which the beneficiary is in a common-law partnership with a person includes the month in which the beneficiary ceases to be in a common-law partnership as a result of the death of his or her common-law partner or otherwise, and a reference to a month in which the beneficiary is not in a common-law partnership does not include the month in which the beneficiary so ceases to be in a common-law partnership.  2000, c. 42, s. 81 (9). Section Amendments with date in force (d/m/y) 1999, c. 9, s. 168 (1, 4) - 14/12/1999; 1999, c. 9, s. 168 (2) - 31/03/1999; 1999, c. 9, s. 168 (3) - 01/07/1999 2000, c. 42, s. 81 (1-9)
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