Pension Adjustment

Definition


Pension Adjustment (PA): In Canadian retirement-plan and insurance jargon, a Pension Adjustment is the one-year “earned-RRSP-room offset” that shows up on your T4 slip after the calendar year ends. It is a dollar figure—calculated automatically by your pension plan administrator or the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)—that roughly equals the value of the retirement benefits you built up that year in a registered pension plan (RPP) or a deferred-profit-sharing plan (DPSP). The CRA subtracts this PA from the usual 18% of earned income when determining how much new RRSP/PRPP contribution room you are given for the following tax year. Put simply, the PA prevents “double-dipping” by ensuring that people who enjoy the tax shelter of an employer pension cannot simultaneously shelter the same income inside an RRSP.

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