Talk:Guaranteed Income Supplement

I've tagged with CleanupNeeded as this article reads as a copy from http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/isp/pub/oas/gismain.shtml#c. From Viewing history it looks like this is a seeding article from when finiki was started. It might be helpful for someone who has been through the GIS application process to rewrite/restructure. --Peculiar Investor 06:01, 24 July 2012 (MDT)

Reader feedback: Should this page be moved to lower caps?
Blbarnitz posted this comment on 22 November 2013 (view all feedback).

"Should this page be moved to lower caps?"

Any thoughts?


 * This one is the proper name of a Government of Canada program (per Service Canada, CRA and a couple of other government websites I checked) and therefore the title should remain capitalized. Peculiar Investor 09:18, 24 November 2013 (MST)

Reader feedback: link to gis rates produced an error page
99.240.176.49 posted this comment on 8 January 2014 (view all feedback).

"link to gis rates produced an error page"

Any thoughts?

Peculiar Investor 09:36, 8 January 2014 (MST)
 * A number of the Service Canada links are dead links (404 errors). Marked them until such until clean-up of the article is undertaken. A more general question is how to distinguish content of this page from the Service Canada page shown in External links? Are there nuances that FWF'ers have discovered that improve on the information on the Service Canada page? --Peculiar Investor 09:36, 8 January 2014 (MST)

Reader feedback: More information about (gis...
184.70.103.122 posted this comment on 27 April 2015 (view all feedback).

"More information about (gis payable for temporary absensis from Canada up to six months in duracion.) What happens if after six months come back to Canada and left again for less than six months?"

Any thoughts?

Peculiar Investor 16:56, 27 April 2015 (MDT)

Reader feedback: How about some actual figure...
108.60.160.142 posted this comment on 18 August 2015 (view all feedback).

"How about some actual figure examples of income?"

Any thoughts?

Peculiar Investor 21:28, 18 August 2015 (MDT)

Reader feedback: Let's say you applied for an...
216.223.90.33 posted this comment on 3 October 2015 (view all feedback).

"Let's say you applied for and received guaranteed income supplement for serval years. Then your interest income was high enough that revenue canada stopped it. Now that interest rates are so low, income is low again,  Does one have to apply again or does revenue canada, on reviewing your tax return automatically start it again.  Please clarify."

Any thoughts?

Peculiar Investor 21:55, 5 October 2015 (MDT)

Reader feedback: I want to know if a foreign...
99.240.206.211 posted this comment on 16 March 2016 (view all feedback).

"I want to know if a foreign pension,which is tax exempt under tax treaty,is part of the g.i.s.calculation."

Any thoughts?

Peculiar Investor 17:06, 16 March 2016 (MDT)

If there is a tax treaty with the country your pension is from, you can claim a deduction on line 256 for the part of your foreign pension income that is tax-free in Canada.

Foreign pension is on line 115. Since line 256 is not part of GIS application form, foreign pension that has a tax treaty must be included... and seems to count for GIS purpose.

Reader feedback: Can I renew my GIs on line ?
50.100.253.156 posted this comment on 30 June 2016 (view all feedback).

"Can I renew my GIs on line ?"

Any thoughts?

Peculiar Investor 08:06, 4 July 2016 (MDT)

Reader feedback: guaranteed income supplement form 2015
74.117.68.31 posted this comment on 16 March 2016 (view all feedback).

"guaranteed income supplement form 2015"

Services Canada website does not work for the form section, so I cannot find a link for such form.

Cashinstinct 11:52, 25 July 2017 (CDT)

The Services Canada Forms List is here - it works for me. I don't see any forms with '2015'. Perhaps the intention is for tax year 2015, not a form number? I'm a US resident and can't help you any further. --LadyGeek 20:58, 25 July 2017 (CDT)

The forms list page does not work from my computer. I think the intention was for tax year 2015. I am able to find specific forms from Google.

Reader feedback: where to report abuse of gua...
71.7.152.9 posted this comment on 8 April 2016 (view all feedback).

"where to report abuse of guaranteed income supplement"

Any thoughts?

Cashinstinct 14:45, 26 July 2017 (CDT)

I am not sure we should include such information the finiki page. They should call Service Canada I guess?
 * I agree the information should not be in finiki.
 * FYI - It is customary to sign your name in a Talk: page discussion. This is the "Pencil" icon, the 3rd icon from the left in the editing toolbar menu. It will appear as --~ until you click "Show preview" or "Save page". Your signature info will then be completed. --LadyGeek 20:10, 27 July 2017 (CDT)