Old Age Security and the Canada Pension Plan - NR4
February 2006
- Catalogue number ISPB 120-02-06E
- Printable version in PDF format (242 kb, 2 pages). To download and print PDF files, you will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- What is the NR4 or NR4-OAS slip?
- What's new?
- Use your Personal Access Code to view your tax slips online and more!
- Canada Pension Plan – Did you know?
- Be sure to tell us if...
- International benefits
- Questions about your Canadian taxes?
- Contact us
What is the NR4 or NR4-OAS slip?
Included with this mailing is your NR4 and/or your NR4-OAS slip. These are Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Old Age Security (OAS) tax information slips for beneficiaries living outside Canada. You must include these slips when filing your Canadian income tax return. They are also needed if you report CPP or OAS pensions in a tax return for another country.
If you lived in Canada at any time during the past year, you may also receive a T4 slip.
What's new?
In September 2005, Service Canada was launched to provide Canadians with one-stop, easy-to-access, personalized service. Service Canada is your source for information on Government of Canada services. To find out more about the many services and benefits available to you, call 1 800 O-Canada (1 800 622-6232), (TTY users: 1 800 926-9105) if you live in Canada or the U.S. To find out how to access 1 800 O-Canada from locations around the world, visit the Service Canada website at servicecanada.gc.ca, or contact the Canadian embassy or consulate closest to you.
Use your Personal Access Code to view your tax slips online and more!
Service Canada's online Tax Information Slips service lets you access your Old Age Security, Canada Pension Plan and Employment Insurance tax slips earlier, so you can file your income tax sooner.
Please note: The access codes that appeared on your tax slips over the last two years are no longer valid. To view your tax information slips online this year you now need a Personal Access Code (PAC). To apply for your PAC, visit servicecanada.gc.ca and follow the links for Tax Information Slips Online, or, if you are living in Canada, call 1 877 454-4051.
You can also use your new online Personal Access Code to:
- view your most recent monthly OAS or CPP payment rates, your mailing address or direct deposit information online;
- view your Statement of Contributions online. All Canadians who have contributed to the CPP, and especially those who receive a CPP survivor benefit, are encouraged to review their personal account.
Canada Pension Plan – Did you know?
- You and your spouse or common-law partner can apply to share your CPP retirement pensions if you are both 60 or over. This may result in income tax savings.
- If your children were born after December 31, 1958, the child rearing provision may help you qualify to increase your payments. In calculating your benefits, the CPP can leave out the time when you had no income or a low income because you were raising children under the age of seven.
- Widowed spouses or common-law partners of CPP contributors may get monthly survivor benefits. Dependent children up to the age of 25 are also eligible.
Contact us to find out more.
Be sure to tell us if...
- you move or your banking information changes
- someone in your family who receives benefits is no longer eligible or dies
- your marital status changes while you are receiving benefits
- a child under 18 for whom you receive a CPP benefit is no longer in your care
International benefits
If you live in a country that has a social security agreement with Canada, you may be eligible for benefits from that country. To find out more, contact us:
Online:
servicecanada.gc.ca
By mail:
International Operations
Service Canada
Ottawa ON K1A 0L4
Canada
Questions about your Canadian taxes?
Contact the Canada Revenue Agency:
By phone:
1 800 267-5177
(toll-free in Canada and the U.S.)
1 613 952-3741
(call collect from all other countries)
By fax:
1 613 941-2505
(International Tax Services)
Contact us
From Canada and the U.S.
1 800 277-9914
1 800 255-4786 (for TTY users)
From all other countries
1 613 957-1954
Service Canada
PO Box 8522
Ottawa ON K1G 3H9
Canada
To find your nearest Service Canada Centre, call us or visit our website.
To respond, we will need your social insurance number. Remember: Do not send us personal information by email.
