Cost-Of-Living Adjustment

Definition


Cost-Of-Living Adjustment (COLA) – In Canadian insurance, a contractual provision that automatically increases an insured person’s disability, long-term-care or critical-illness benefit each year in step with the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The intent is to preserve the purchasing power of those benefits so that inflation does not erode the amount originally payable when the policy was issued. The annual increases are limited by either a fixed ceiling (e.g., 3 % or 5 %) or the actual change in the CPI, whichever is lower, and are usually funded by higher initial premiums.

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