Old Age Security and the Canada Pension Plan - NR4

February 2007

• Catalogue number ISPB 120-02-07E
• Printable version in PDF format (78 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?
• View your tax slips online!
• Canada Pension Plan - Did you know?
• Be sure to tell us if:
• Questions about your Canadian taxes?
• International benefits
• Service Canada

What is the NR4 or NR4-OAS slip?

Included with this mailing is your NR4 or your NR4-OAS slip. These are Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Old Age Security (OAS) tax 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.

View your tax slips online!

View your Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security tax slips sooner using Service Canada's online services.

By completing the registration process now, you could use online services to change your address or direct deposit information or view your most recent payment amounts. Next year, you could file your tax return earlier by accessing your tax slips as early as February 1.

To register and use online services, visit servicecanada.gc.ca and select "View and Update My Service Canada 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 for a benefit or increase your benefit 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.
• Surviving spouses or common-law partners of CPP contributors may get monthly survivor benefits. Dependent children up to the age of 25 are also eligible (those between 18 and 25 must be in school full-time).

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

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)

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: servicecanada.gc.ca

Contact us:

By phone:
1-800-454-8731
1-800-255-4786 (TTY)

From outside Canada and the U.S.:

By phone:
1-613-957-1954

By mail:
International Operations
Service Canada
Ottawa ON K1A 0L4
Canada

Please remember, if you contact us, we will need your Social Insurance Number.

Service Canada

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.