Canada Pension Plan

Marginal note:Amount of benefit

• 59 (1) Except in the case of a dependent child described in subparagraph (b)(ii) of the definition dependent child in subsection 42(1), a disabled contributor’s child’s benefit payable to the child of a disabled contributor and an orphan’s benefit payable to the orphan of a contributor, is a basic monthly amount consisting of

  • (a) in the year 1991, one hundred and thirteen dollars and fourteen cents;

  • (b) in the year 1992, the aggregate of

    • (i) one hundred and thirteen dollars and fourteen cents, multiplied by the ratio referred to in subparagraph (c)(ii), and

    • (ii) thirty-five dollars; or

  • (c) in the year 1993 or any subsequent year, an amount calculated by multiplying

    • (i) the amount of the benefit that would have been payable for a month in the year preceding that year

    by

    • (ii) the ratio that the Pension Index for the year in which the benefit commences to be payable bears to the Pension Index for the year preceding that year.

• Marginal note:Benefit — part-time student

  (2) In the case of a dependent child described in subparagraph (b)(ii) of the definition dependent child in subsection 42(1), a disabled contributor’s child’s benefit payable to the child of a disabled contributor and an orphan’s benefit payable to the orphan of a contributor, is a basic monthly amount equal to 50% of the amount that would otherwise be calculated under paragraph (1)(c).