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Originally Posted by Azure
OAS won't be disbanded. It will be reformed. Like it needs to be.
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I support disbanding OAS and replace it with an income and asset tested system. In particular, there must be a reform to curb new senior immigrants benefits. I know for fact that many well to do families sponsor their parents here and after ten years, the parents can collect OAS and GIS to the tune of $1000 per person a month. Aren't we just nice as a country to give free money to people?
Harper is doing the right thing, we can't keep giving money away but raising the OAS age limit by 2 years does very little to solve the problem. People are aging and we aren't as rich as we once were. But the problem with being a welfare state is that once you started paying people, it's hard to change course even if changing course is the right thing to do.