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Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada providing employees, dependants with $10K in gender affirmation coverage

lbailey — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 13:00:41 +0000

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc. is providing employees and their dependants with $10,000 in lifetime gender affirmation coverage. The additional coverage complements existing benefits that support transitioning employees, including prescription drug coverage for hormone therapy, mental-health coverage, disability insurance and medical leaves for employees who are recovering from surgeries. The new coverage is also extended to […]

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Expert panel: What does Canadian pension legislation say about polyamory?

bwolfe — Wed, 10 May 2023 13:00:48 +0000

In December 2022, the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia released an unexpected decision: two men, who had been in a polyamorous relationship with a third man for more than a decade, were entitled to the latter’s survivor pension benefits. The pension plan had originally denied the partners’ application for survivor benefits and had sought […]

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OPTrust improving survivor benefits for plan members’ dependent children

Sadie Janes — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 13:00:08 +0000

The OPSEU Pension Trust is expanding the definition of an eligible dependent child so disabled dependent children may be entitled to survivor benefits. Previously, a plan member’s children were only eligible for survivor benefits if they were younger than age 18, older than age 18 and attending secondary school full time or attending a post-secondary […]

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CAAT expanding definition of who qualifies to receive benefits

lbailey — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 14:00:23 +0000

The Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Pension Plan is expanding the definition of who can qualify to receive benefits as disabled or as a dependant child under its plan. Effective Dec. 1, 2021, the CAAT’s DBprime plan design was amended to remove the requirement that a member must be receiving benefits from an employer’s long-term […]

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