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CPP Post-Retirement Benefit Contribution
KNOWLEDGE EXPECTED OF: Both CFP® Professionals and QAFPTM Professionals
- Identify the CPP Retirement Benefit contributory period.1
- Mandatory
- Voluntary
- Define the Maximum Yearly Maximum Pensionable Earnings (YMPE).
- Define the Yearly Basic Exemption (YBE).
- Explain criteria for determining the amount of CPP contributions required towards earning a CPP Post-Retirement Benefit.1
- Identify the CPP contribution rates required towards earning a CPP Post-Retirement Benefit.2
- For employed individuals
- For self-employed individuals
- Explain the income on which CPP contributions are payable towards earning a CPP Post-Retirement Benefit.2
- For employed individuals
- For self-employed individuals
- Calculate the amount of CPP contributions payable towards earning a CPP Post-Retirement Benefit.
- For employed individuals
- For self-employed individuals
- Explain the tax treatment of CPP contributions towards earning a CPP Post-Retirement Benefit.
- For employed individuals
- For self-employed individuals
- Explain how each of the factors may impact the decision to contribute toward CPP Post-Retirement Benefits between age 65 and 70.
- Income requirements
- Stability of income
- Life expectancy
- Tax impact
- Individual attitudes
- Evaluate how each of the factors may impact the decision to contribute toward CPP Post-Retirement Benefits between age 65 and 70.
- Identify that the QPP Retirement Pension Supplement is based on contributions to the QPP program.
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