{"id":16866,"date":"2019-09-19T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/liberals-promising-tax-free-parental-benefits-increased-cpp-survivors-benefit-135970"},"modified":"2019-09-19T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T19:00:06","slug":"liberals-promising-tax-free-parental-benefits-increased-cpp-survivors-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/09\/19\/liberals-promising-tax-free-parental-benefits-increased-cpp-survivors-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals promising tax-free parental benefits, increased CPP survivor\u2019s benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Justin-Trudeau.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Liberals promising tax-free parental benefits, increased CPP survivor\u2019s benefit\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;September 19, 2019 <\/p>\n<p>The Liberal Party&nbsp;announced a number of campaign promises this week, including&nbsp;making maternity and parental benefits tax-free, introducing a 15-week leave for adoptive parents, strengthening the old-age security benefit and increasing the Canada Pension Plan and Quebec Pension Plan survivor\u2019s benefit.<\/p>\n<p>If re-elected, the Liberal government said it will work to establish guaranteed paid family leave, a program that would make sure parents who don\u2019t qualify for paid leave through employment insurance or don\u2019t get enough will receive a&nbsp;guaranteed income during the first year of their child\u2019s life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/federal-government-seeking-to-add-more-paid-personal-leave-days-121173\">Federal government seeking to add more paid personal leave days<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery parent knows that raising kids is expensive&nbsp;\u2014 especially in that first year,\u201d said&nbsp;Justin Trudeau, the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. \u201cWith everything else on their plates, the last thing new parents need to worry about is making ends meet. That\u2019s why we\u2019ll be there for families, so they can be there for their kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Liberals said they\u2019d increase old-age security benefits by 10 per cent \u2014 an extra $729 on average, according to a press release. It also pledged to raise the CPP and QPP survivor\u2019s benefit by 25 per cent for an increase&nbsp;in the maximum benefits of more than $2,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/liberals-promising-tax-free-parental-benefits-increased-cpp-survivors-benefit-135970\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;September 19, 2019 The Liberal Party&nbsp;announced a number of campaign promises this week, including&nbsp;making maternity and parental benefits tax-free, introducing a 15-week leave for adoptive parents, strengthening the old-age security benefit and increasing the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}