Retirement rules reference

Key Retirement Ages

Source-backed age anchors for CPP, QPP, OAS, RRSP maturity, RRIF factors, and pension income splitting context.

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Current snapshot

Common age anchors

Earliest CPP/QPP startLoading
Common public pension ageLoading
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OAS increase ageLoading

Plain-language context

What this reference means

Retirement calculators often need a small set of age anchors before they can model public pensions, registered plan withdrawals, and tax rules.

This page collects the common anchors in one place. The detailed reference pages remain the better place for benefit amounts, tax treatment, and eligibility conditions.

Reference table

Retirement age anchors

AreaAge anchorAgeContext
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Notes and assumptions

Key retirement ages are loaded from the shared OpenBook Planning retirement-rules data file.

Official sources

  • Source links load from the centralized reference data file.