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How to Maximize Your CPP and OAS Pensions (2020 Version)

Get the tools and insights you need to maximize your CPP and OAS pension benefits.

Created byDavid Trahairworkspace_premiumBest Instructor
IntermediateUpdated May 18, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleAll about the CPP enhancement program that is increasing premiums and benefits
  • check_circleHow to sign up for and use the My Service Canada Account to get your CPP statement of contributions
  • check_circleHow to calculate how much you'll get for your CPP pension
  • check_circleHow to decide when to start your CPP retirement pension

About This Course

Note: An updated version of this course is available titled "How to Maximize Your CPP and OAS Pensions 2023" on LearnFormula.

This in-depth course is your complete guide to understanding and maximizing your Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Old Age Security (OAS) benefits. Whether you’re planning for retirement or advising others, this program provides the essential knowledge and tools needed to make informed, financially sound decisions about your public pensions.

You'll learn how CPP contributions are calculated, how the enhanced CPP program works, and how your retirement pension amount is determined. Key topics include pension sharing, credit splitting, CPP disability, survivor, and children's benefits, and how to manage your My Service Canada Account. The course also covers OAS eligibility, deferral options, and clawback rules to help you fully understand your entitlements.

Included are three downloadable calculators and relevant forms to help you assess your benefits and make strategic choices that can maximize your lifetime income.

Course Content

7 activities • 32 videos • duration: 2h 15m

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Intro-Part12 videos • 2 min
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    Duration 1:45
  • videocamLearning outcomes
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Canada Pension Plan-Part12 videos • 6 min
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CPP Details-Part111 videos • 31 min
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CPP Calculations-Part110 videos • 52 min
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CPP Other Issues-Part15 videos • 30 min
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Old Age Security-Part11 videos • 11 min
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Conclusion-Part11 videos • 1 min

Your Instructor

David Trahair

Acclaimed Author and On-demand Course Developer

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David Trahair, CPA, CA, is an author and eLearning developer who creates on-demand video courses for CPAs across Canada. His courses cover topics including personal finance, ethics, AI, and Microsoft Excel. David is also the author of six personal finance books, three of which are national bestsellers. Through his firm, he helps CPAs build practical skills through engaging, self-paced learning.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.5 out of 5
Student's Choice
584 reviews
  • JF
    JACLYN F.
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    Very informative.

  • BB
    Burzin B.
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    It was very informative and showed steps for each and every part of CPP.

  • DR
    Donald R.
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    Yes. Great review of the program

  • VB
    Velena B.
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    Very informative as I am nearing retirement age. However, a little extra research will be required as I am in Quebec and will need to verify the extent of harmonization with QPP rules.

Frequently Asked Questions

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