Finally, I know that mainland China has a social security agreement with Canada. What if this agreement made it eligible for the OAS earlier compared to the 10-year rule, given that Hong Kong is now a country (two systems one country)? My name is Rolando Cruz, I found your name on the DRpensions website and I would just like to consult my mother`s application for her old age insurance. I sponsored my mother and she emigrated here to Canada in March 2004. During her 10-year stay here in Canada, she moved to the Philippines three times (2005, 2007- 2010) and spent more than a year there. If I added everyone, she spent about 5.8 years here in Canada and 4.2 years in the Philippines, but she kept Canada as her primary residence. She filed her OAS pension application here in Canada last year (September 2014th), we received a response that they forwarded their application to the international department and then they sent another letter after 1 year, that she does not fill the 10-year stay, so she did not grant her the OAS pension when we filed her application , the basis we have looked at is the fact that she has both lived here in Canada and the Philippines for the past 10 years. The fact that they said “life or works,” which means that if she lived in both countries but didn`t necessarily work, she would have been qualified for at least a partial pension, I think you are more expert on this, which is why I sent you this letter in the hope that I would get the right Hi Doug answer. The question of the method of calculation. I lived in Canada for 15 years during my OAS assistance period, then moved to the United States and worked there for 10 years before moving abroad. I understand that I can receive payments from the OAS on the basis of the agreement that has been reached in that country. But my question is, what do I get paid for? Totalization only comes into play if it does not separately meet the eligibility criteria for both countries. To apply to the OAS from outside Canada, for example, it takes 20 years to stay in Canada after the age of 18. If she has that, she qualifies for the OAS without using the agreement.

If this is not the case, it could use some of its years of contribution to the U.S. SS system to reach the 20-year threshold, but the amount of its OAS would be strictly based on the actual number of years of stay in Canada. Hello, Doug, my mother will be 20 years old as a legal citizen in Canada. She`s from Guatemala. I called the immigration pension. Someone told me that she could get her old age pension, even if it is not a contracting country, but they will deduct the 30% of the tax. She will be 82 in June. I read the pensions page, but I did not confirm anything.

Can you tell me how it works? Through an employer and the self-employed or self-employed, these agreements or agreements can be invoked by applying for a coverage certificate to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). Forms of international social security agreements are available on the rating agency`s website. My question is that my stay in Asia can be considered a residence in Canada based on my relationship with Canada during the absence, so I start getting the OAS in 2020, if I move to Asia Hi Margaret – If you worked in Canada after 18 years, you are entitled to an old age pension CPP , that you return to Canada.