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postpaid services

Postpaid services are cellphone services that you pay for after you use the service. You pay for the amount of service that you used since your last payment. Most monthly cellphone contracts are postpaid. If you have a monthly plan that you pay for after you use the services, you are using postpaid services.

Some prepaid services also have...

prepaid services

Prepaid services are cellphone services that you pay for before you use the service. They include prepaid cards or accounts for a fixed amount of service or a fixed cost. Some contracts also cover prepaid services.

This is different from a postpaid service, where you pay for your usage at the end of the month.

accommodation

Accommodation means the help that a school or school board has to give a student who has more than the usual amount of difficulty learning or taking part in school. Ontario's Human Rights Code says that school boards must do what they can to help students with conditions or differences that affect their ability to learn. In human rights law,...

curriculum

A curriculum is a document that explains what students are expected to learn and how they will learn those things. Some curriculum documents include details such as:

  • specific lessons and activities,
  • books or resources to use, and
  • how to test or assess the student.

Some curriculum documents just say what knowledge...

Canada Pension Plan (CPP) retirement pension

A Canada Pension Plan (CPP) retirement pension is a monthly payment that many Canadians get when they retire.

To get a CPP retirement pension, you normally have to have:

  • worked in Canada
  • made contributions to the CPP

Most people who get a CPP retirement pension get it when they are 65 years old. But you can start...

common-law partner

Canada Pension Plan (CPP) legislation says that a common-law partner is someone you’ve lived with in a conjugal or marriage-like relationship for at least one year. Your partner does not have to be the same sex as you.

To prove that you’re in a common-law relationship, or that you and your spouse lived in a common-law relationship before...

CPP contributions

Workers make contributions to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). If you work for an employer, these are deducted from your pay cheque. Employers also make contributions to the Canada Pension Plan on behalf of their employees.

The amount of your retirement pension or disability benefit is based on a few things, including:

  • the amount...

Canada Pension Plan (CPP) retirement benefits

Canada Pension Plan (CPP) retirement benefits are monthly payments that many Canadians get when they retire.

To get CPP retirement benefits, you normally have to have:

  • worked in Canada
  • made contributions to the CPP

Most people who get CPP retirement benefits get them when they are 65 years old. But you can start...

spouse

Your spouse is someone who you're legally married to. You must have both been physically present at the wedding.

clearance certificate

A clearance certificate is a document that an estate trustee gets from Canada Revenue Agency. It confirms that all money the person who died owed to the Canada Revenue Agency has been paid.