Pension Legislative Update—Alberta
Bills
Bill 2
Alberta Pension Protection Act (Horner)
Received Royal Assent December 7, 2023
Government Resources
- Alberta pension plan: analysis of costs, benefits, risks and considerations, Alberta Treasury Board and Finance (LifeWorks), August 1, 2023
- Private sector pensions review engagement, Government of Alberta
- Fair Deal Panel, Government of Alberta
- Fair Deal Panel report - Government's response, June 17, 2020
- Report to Government, May 31, 2020
- Employment Pension Plans Act (EPPA), Alberta Treasury Board and Finance
- Forms
- Interpretive Guidelines
- Employment Pension Plans Regulation
- EPPA Update 24-02 - Filing Fee for Pension Plans effective October 1, 2024, Issued September 30, 2024
- EPPA Update 24-01 - Amendment to the Employment Pension Plans Regulation, Issued June 21, 2024
- EPPA Update 23-01 - Filing Fee for Pension Plans effective October 1, 2023, Issued September 21, 2023
- EPPA Update 22-02 - Filing Fee for Pension Plans effective October 1, 2022, Issued September 28, 2022
- EPPA Update 22-01 - Online Filing of Wind-up Reports and Letters of Credit, Issued April 21, 2022
- EPPA Update 21-04 - Employment Pension Plans Amendment Regulation (Supplemental Pension Plans), Issued December 9, 2021
- EPPA Update 21-03 - Filing Fee for Pension Plans effective October 1, 2021, Issued September 24, 2021
- EPPA Update 21-02 - Online Payment of Filing Fees, Issued June 22, 2021
- EPPA Update 21-01 - New Deputy Superintendent of Pensions, Issued May 10, 2021
- EPPA Update 20-07 - Electronic beneficiary designation, Issued December 10, 2020
- EPPA Update 20-06 - Online Filing of Documents, Issued September 30, 2020
- EPPA Update 20-05 - Filing Fee for Pension Plans effective October 1, 2020, Issued September 23, 2020
- EPPA Update 20-04 - Additional COVID-19 Relief Measures, Issued June 24, 2020
- EPPA Update 20-03 - Additional COVID-19 Relief Measures, Issued June 3, 2020
- EPPA Update 20-02 - Adoption of the 2020 Agreement Respecting Multi-Jurisdictional Pension Plans, Issued June 2, 2020
- EPPA Update 20-01 – COVID-19 Relief Measures, Issued April 1, 2020
News/Analysis
- Alberta announces overhaul of Provision for Adverse Deviation for target benefit plans, Eckler, June 28, 2024
- What is the CPP anyway? And why is Alberta leaving it different from Quebec?, CBC, November 2, 2023
- Alberta deserves more than half CPP assets if it exits program: report, Benefits Canada, September 22, 2023
- Alberta government asking for proposals to study feasibility of provincial pension plan, Global News, September 16, 2020
- Alberta panel recommending province withdraws from CPP, creates Alberta Pension Plan, Benefits Canada, June 19, 2020
- Proposed Alberta Pension Plan has underwriting, political risks: report, Benefits Canada, January 13, 2020