Pension Board - Substantive Resolutions
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- Date
- 1937 August
- Source
- General Synod. Minutes
- Type
- Resolution
- Text of motion
- (2) That the General Synod urges upon the Unassisted Dioceses of Canada which have not already taken action the careful consideration by their Synods of the following Recommendations concerning their respective Beneficiary Funds:
- (a) The adoption of a Plan of Assessment on the basis of Salary.
- (b) The adoption of a Scale of Assessment sufficiently high to increase from the beginning the existing level of Current Support of Pensions.
- (c) The increase of the Scale of Assessment to 7 1/2% of Salaries for 1940.
- (d) The division of the Annual Assessment between the Bishops and Clergy, and their respective Salary-Paying Sources in the ratio of one-third and two-thirds of the total Assessment respectively.
- (e) A strong appeal to all the congregations of the Diocese to pay their Pension Assessment from monies raised for Parochial purposes, and not from collections or subscriptions for Extra Parochial (commonly called Missionary) purposes. CARRIED in both Houses.
- Subjects
- Pensions - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada - Dioceses
- Anglican Church of Canada - Clergy - Pensions