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Important information about the Saskatchewan Pension Plan or SPP.

The Saskatchewan Pension Plan (SPP) purpose to provide a pension to those who might not belong to private pension plans, such as homemakers, part-time employees, farmers, and the self-employed.

You do not have to live in Saskatchewan to join or contribute to the Saskatchewan Pension Plan (SPP).

The following SPP lump-sum payments can be transferred directly to your RRSP, your RRIF, or to buy yourself an eligible annuity:

  • payments that you were entitled from the SPP as a member;
  • payments that you were entitled as the current or former spouse or common-law partner of a member on the breakdown of your relationship or
  • payments that you were entitled to as the current or former spouse or common-law partner of a member due to their death.

Lump-sum payments from an SPP that you were entitled to under a court order or written agreement relating to a division of property between you and your current or former spouse or common-law partner in settlement of rights arising from the breakdown of your relationship may be transferred directly to an RRSP or to a RRIF.

You and your spouse or common-law partner had to be living separate and apart at the time of the transfer because of the breakdown of your relationship.

These lump-sum payments may also be used to purchase an annuity.

Amounts cannot be transferred to an RRSP if you were over 71 years old at the end of the tax year.

If you transferred the amount directly, do not claim a deduction for the amount directly transferred and do not report the income on your return.

However, if you received the payment in cash or by cheque before making the transfer, the transfer is not tax free. Report the amount on line 13000 of your return in the tax year the payment is received.

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