Effective date: December 1, 2016
Application: All claims.
Policy subject: Benefits - General
Purpose:
To establish guidelines for deducting Canada or Quebec Pension Plan (CPP/QPP) Disability Benefits from loss of earnings benefits.
Customer means an injured worker or a surviving dependent spouse.
Periodic Benefits for the purpose of this policy means benefits relative to the death or injury of a worker that the worker or the worker’s surviving spouse is entitled to receive from Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC – Service Canada) under the Canada Pension Plan or the Quebec Pension Plan (e.g., Disability Benefits or Survivor Benefits) (Section 95).
Offset means deducting CPP/QPP Disability Benefits from loss of earnings (wage loss) benefits.
Indexing
Minimum Compensation
Dependants
The Workers’ Compensation Act, 2013
2(1)(i), 66, 67, 69, 70(5), 74, 75, 77, 81(1)(b), 83, 84, 85, 89, 95