{"time": "2011-03-08 14:50:00", "attribution": {"en": "Hon. Diane Finley (Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, CPC)", "fr": ""}, "content": {"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"2373348\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, our government is committed to ensuring that seniors do receive the benefits to which they are entitled on time. That is why we have done things like the automatic renewal of the guaranteed income supplement as long as the senior files a tax return. In fact, over 95% are now having their GIS automatically renewed.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2373349\" data-originallang=\"en\">As to the rest, many times people apply for GIS and old age security long before they are eligible, many months before. That is why they get delayed. We wait until they are eligible to pay them. Well over 90% of seniors do receive a cheque within the first month of eligibility.</p>", "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"2373348\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, notre gouvernement tient \u00e0 faire en sorte que les personnes \u00e2g\u00e9es re\u00e7oivent en temps opportun les prestations auxquelles elles ont droit. C'est pourquoi nous avons pris des mesures permettant, par exemple, le renouvellement automatique du Suppl\u00e9ment de revenu garanti pour autant que la personne remplisse une d\u00e9claration de revenus. En fait, plus de 95 p. 100 des prestataires b\u00e9n\u00e9ficient maintenant du renouvellement automatique de leurs prestations de SRG.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"2373349\" data-originallang=\"en\">Les autres probl\u00e8mes peuvent \u00eatre attribuables au fait que les gens pr\u00e9sentent souvent leur demande de Suppl\u00e9ment de revenu garanti et de S\u00e9curit\u00e9 de la vieillesse plusieurs mois d\u2019avance. C'est pourquoi le premier ch\u00e8que n\u2019arrive pas tout de suite. Nous attendons qu\u2019ils soient admissibles avant de leur verser un paiement. Plus de 90 p. 100 des personnes \u00e2g\u00e9es re\u00e7oivent un ch\u00e8que au cours du mois o\u00f9 elles deviennent admissibles.</p>"}, "url": "/debates/2011/3/8/diane-finley-2/", "politician_url": "/politicians/diane-finley/", "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1370/", "procedural": false, "source_id": "3791222", "h1": {"en": "Oral Questions", "fr": ""}, "h2": {"en": "Pensions", "fr": ""}, "document_url": "/debates/2011/3/8/", "related": {"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2011%2F3%2F8%2F"}}