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Higher Old Age Security payments
C-261 An Act to amend the Old Age Security Act (amount of full pension)
Raises Old Age Security pensions by 10% for seniors aged 65 and older and increases their earnings exemption.
What Bill C-261 would do
The bill would increase the full Old Age Security pension by 10% for all pensioners aged 65 and older. It would also raise the exemption for employment or self-employed earnings used to calculate the Guaranteed Income Supplement from $5,000 to $6,500.
Official summary
This enactment amends the Old Age Security Act to increase the amount of the full pension to which all pensioners aged 65 or older are entitled by 10% and to raise the exemption for a person’s employment income or self-employed earnings that is taken into account in determining the amount of the guaranteed income supplement from $5,000 to $6,500.
- Kind
- Private member's bill
- Sponsor
- Claude DeBellefeuille, Member of Parliament (Vallée-du-Haut-Saint-Laurent)
- Introduced
- in the House of Commons
- Last activity
Where it stands
- ProposedFeb 9
- Being debatedsince Feb 9 Exact stageAt second reading in the House of Commons · since February 9, 2026MPs or senators are debating it in the chamber where it started.
- Almost law
- Law
First debate in the House: 1 day so far
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First reading in the House done
Before the House on 1 sitting day,
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Second reading in the House now
Before the House on 1 sitting day, · 1 debate here
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Committee in the House not yet
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Report stage in the House not yet
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Third reading in the House not yet
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First reading in the Senate not yet
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Second reading in the Senate not yet
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Third reading in the Senate not yet
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Royal assent not yet
Exact procedural stages
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House
- First reading in the House: done, 2026-02-09
- Second reading in the House: current stage
- Committee in the House: not yet reached
- Report stage in the House: not yet reached
- Third reading in the House: not yet reached
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Senate
- First reading in the Senate: not yet reached
- Second reading in the Senate: not yet reached
- Third reading in the Senate: not yet reached
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Royal assent
- Royal assent: not yet reached
Debates in the House 1
Members who spoke: Conservative 3 Bloc Québécois 2 Liberal 2
Second reading 1
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7 members spoke
- Claude DeBellefeuille Bloc Québécois A– statement 1, graded A–C– statement 2, graded C–B statement 3, graded BA statement 4, graded A
- Brad Vis Conservative A+ statement 1, graded A+
- Anna Roberts Conservative A– statement 1, graded A–A statement 2, graded A
- Andréanne Larouche Bloc Québécois A statement 1, graded AA+ statement 2, graded A+
- Leslie Church Liberal B+ statement 1, graded B+
- Eric St-Pierre Liberal A statement 1, graded A
- Dominique Vien Conservative A– statement 1, graded A–
Also raised in 4
Question Period, members' statements and other debates where the bill came up.