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- Pensions - Canada
22. Pension Committee
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/official2879
- Date
- 1977 May 3-6
- Record Type
- Resolution
- Mover
- Short
- Seconder
- Berry
- Text
- That the Pension Board be authorized to conduct a Special Names campaign to provide capital funds to augment the pensions of members of the Pension Plan who do not enjoy Canada Pension Plan benefits, and other similar purposes; and that the Pension Committee be given the primary responsibility for organizing this campaign in consultation with the Task Force on Funding National Goals; and
- that the Task Force which will conduct this campaign be nominated by the Pension Committee, and appointed by the Officers of Synod; and that the Task Force be directed to report both interim and final plans to the Officers of Synod for their approval prior to implementation. CARRIED
- Subjects
- Pensions - Anglican Church of Canada
- Pensions - Canada
- Fund raising - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada. Task Force on Funding National Goals
Am I My Brother's Keeper ?: Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Pension Development for Methodist Preachers
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article37746
- Author
- Joanette, Nelson K. (Nelson Kim)
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society
- Date
- 1994 October
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Date
- 1994 October
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 2
- Page
- [135]-147
- Notes
- "Pension plans for the clergy in Canada developed during the nineteenth century and thereby were among the first pensions of any sort to be implemented in Canada. The focus of this paper is the pension system of the Methodist Church of Canada which was not only the first clerical pension plan to be initiated in Canada, but also served as the model for the pension plan of the United Church of Canada. Since there is greater parallelism than dissimilarity among the pension arrangements of the various religious denominations in Canada, a case study of the Methodist pension system provides a good representation of clerical pension history in general. What is to be gained by this exercise is not only a knowledge of pension policies, but also what pension policies tell us about religious bodies and their business sense, gender biases, and societal attitudes on aging" (p. [135]). "The beginnings of the Methodist Superannuation Fund can be traced to the Second Canadian Wesleyan Methodist Conference (1825) where ministers incapacitated by age were given permission to solicit for income" (p. 136). "Incorporation of the pension scheme known as 'The Connectional Society of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada' was effected in 1851, being administered by a four-member board, including a treasurer" (p. 137). "The pension system of the Methodist Church of Canada, like most policies for superannuation, followed an evolutionary course from being informally structured or voluntary to that of contributory and actuarially sound. If the essentials required for economic viability were often amiss, the belief in retirement annuities as a matter of earned right rather than as acts of benevolence was present from the earliest days. Yet, not far from the philosophy of pensions being merited was the tenet that by treating those who served God in a just manner, the Church too would prosper, not through heavenly reward but from preachers loyally serving their employer" (p. 144-145). "Women were treated as a distinct category in pension policy. Generally, a minister's widow was not entitled to the pension amount which her husband had received. .... In addition, widows and orphans were often subject to charity for sustenance with special grants and allowances being made according to individual circumstances, but as with all acts of benevolence, there was no assurance of continued income" (p. 145). "The gradual amalgamation of individual plans and the increasing soundness of financial structures allowed for an ever expanding growth of the pension system within the context of earned right. This philosophy was succinctly put by the actuary of the Anglican Church of Canada in 1927 when presenting his wishes to the General Synod: 'To devise a pension scheme under which the clergy became beneficiaries "of right"; one behind which is not sympathy, (still less relief) but justice'. The right to security in old age for those who had been engaged in full-time professional careers translated into pension" (p. 146).
- Subjects
- Methodist Church of Canada - Clergy - Pensions
- Pensions - Methodist Church of Canada
- Pensions - Canada
Government, Pensions and Welfare
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/official1232
- Date
- 1980 June
- Source
- General Synod. Minutes
- Record Type
- Act 71
- Mover
- Mrs. J.N. Doidge
- Seconder
- Rt. Rev. R. Hollis
- Text
- That this Synod recommend that the National Executive Council explore whether or not Government pension and welfare payments discriminate against married couples, and request its Officers to take action, if appropriate. CARRIED ACT 71
- Subjects
- Marriage - Canada
- Taxation - Canada
- Taxation - Moral and ethical aspects
- Taxation - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Public welfare - Canada
- Public welfare - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Pensions - Canada
[PWRDF Grant to a Citizens' Action Committee]
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/official5069
- Date
- 1970 June 17
- Source
- Anglican News Service
- Record Type
- Press Release
- Text
- The first development grant to be made in Canada to a citizens' action committee by the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund of the Anglican Church of Canada has gone to an organization called: "Pensioners Concerned."
- The grant of five thousand dollars was presented on June 16th by Most Rev. Howard H. Clark, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada to the founders of Pensioners Concerned, Mrs. Corabel Penfold of Toronto and Mr. Reginald Watson of Weston, Ontario.
- The organization, formed in 1969, is designed to spark interest across Canada on the part of all retirees to approach the three levels of government to at least partially restore the purchasing power of the retiree's income that has been eroded by inflation.
- The Federal Government is being asked to raise the exemption for retirees to three thousand for single persons and 45 hundred dollars for those retirees who are married. For those earning less than those amounts, the government will be asked to provide a form of negative income tax.
- In the Provincial-Municipal field, the organization wants retirees who own their homes or are renting to be excused from the education tax. Health services for those in the three thousand and 45 hundred dollar category would be provided free.
- The five thousand dollars provided by the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund will enable Mrs. Penfold and Mr. Watson to travel to various centres across Canada, beginning in September to recruit retirees into Social Action groups to make their case known to the levels of government.
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- Subjects
- Pensioners Concerned
- Anglican Church of Canada. Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) - Grants
- Pensions - Canada
- Aged - Canada
- Aged - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Taxation - Canada
- Taxation - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
Section V - Social and Moral Problems - Social Security
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/official3892
- Date
- 1952 September
- Source
- General Synod. Minutes
- Record Type
- Resolution
- Mover
- Dr. Prince
- Seconder
- Miss Nora Lee
- Text
- That the General Synod records its appreciation of the sympathetic consideration accorded to the representatives of the Church through its Council since the General Synod of 1943 on matters of social security, and in particular welcomes the provision of Old Age Pensions for those seventy years of age and over and of the special assistance programme to those in the sixty-five to sixty-nine year bracket;
- And urges at this time that further and continued study be given to the great discrepancies in health services and the uneven distribution of medical facilities among our people and respectfully requests that early steps be taken looking toward the improvement of this situation. CARRIED in both Houses.
- Subjects
- Public welfare - Canada
- Public welfare - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Pensions - Canada
- Aged - Canada
- Insurance, Health - Canada
- Medical care - Canada
- Medical care - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada