Program directory · Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada
Federally Regulated Private Pension Plans
- Program code
- BVN04 (OSFI)
- Core responsibility
- Financial Institution and Pension Plan Regulation and Supervision
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2025-26 · Appeared and later dropped
What it does
This program involves regulating and supervising federally regulated private pension plans to determine whether they are meeting minimum funding requirements and are complying with their governing laws and supervisory requirements. This program provides risk assessments of pension plans covering employees in federally regulated areas of employment. It ensures timely and effective intervention and feedback to protect the interests of plan members and beneficiaries, while recognizing that plan administrators are ultimately responsible and that plans can fail to pay the expected benefits. This program also provides a balanced relevant regulatory framework and a prudentially effective and responsive approvals process. It incorporates activities pertaining to risk assessment and intervention, regulation and guidance, and approvals and precedents related to federally regulated private pension plans under the Pension Benefits Standards Act, 1985 and the Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federally Regulated Private Pension Plans | This program | 2018-19 – 2027-28 | $32.4M |
No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
No significant changes detected.
Success criteria
The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.
Historical: targets against results
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≤ 1 | 2019 | 0 | Met |
| 2019-20 | ≤ 1 | 2020 | 0 | Met |
| 2020-21 | ≤ 1 | 2021 | 0 | Met |
| 2021-22 | ≤ 1 | 2022 | 1 | Met |
| 2022-23 | ≤ 1 | 2023 | 2 OSFI intervened with 2 defined contribution pension plans with outstanding minimum required contributions. | Not met |
| 2023-24 | ≤ 1 | 2024 | 4 OSFI intervened with 4 defined contribution pension plans with outstanding minimum required contributions. | Not met |
| 2024-25 | ≤ 1 | 2025 | 0 | Met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 75% | 2019 | 82% | Met |
| 2019-20 | ≥ 75% | 2020 | 82% | Met |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 75% | 2021 | 84% | Met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 75% | 2022 | — The Pension Plan Survey (PPS) was not conducted in 2021-22, therefore no updated data is available. | No result reported |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 75% | 2024 | — The Pension Plan Survey (PPS) was not conducted in 2023-24, therefore no updated data is available. | No result reported |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 75% | 2019 | 76% | Met |
| 2019-20 | ≥ 75% | 2020 | 76% | Met |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 75% | 2021 | 79% | Met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 75% | 2022 | — The Pension Plan Survey (PPS) was not conducted in 2021-22, therefore no updated data is available. | No result reported |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 75% | 2024 | — The Pension Plan Survey (PPS) was not conducted in 2023-24, therefore no updated data is available. | No result reported |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $4.4M | $4.4M |
| 2019-20 | $4.6M | $4.3M |
| 2020-21 | $4.6M | $4.6M |
| 2021-22 | $4.9M | $4.5M |
| 2022-23 | $5M | $3.5M |
| 2023-24 | $5.4M | $5M |
| 2024-25 | $9.7M | $6.2M |
| 2025-26 | $5.6M | — |
| 2026-27 | $5.8M* | — |
| 2027-28 | $6M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 24 | 25 |
| 2019-20 | 25 | 25 |
| 2020-21 | 24 | 27 |
| 2021-22 | 24 | 27 |
| 2022-23 | 26 | 21 |
| 2023-24 | 30 | 24 |
| 2024-25 | 24 | 27 |
| 2025-26 | 29 | — |
| 2026-27 | 29* | — |
| 2027-28 | 29* | — |
Planned spending, plan by plan
Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans
| Plan | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $4,392,322 | $4,461,674 | $4,544,667 | |||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $4,576,281 | $4,636,662 | $4,700,980 | |||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $4,586,270 | $4,686,269 | $4,787,780 | |||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $4,856,557 | $4,961,618 | $5,051,687 | |||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $4,981,138 | $5,078,699 | $5,217,316 | |||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $5,410,973 | $8,716,721 | $5,509,496 | |||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $9,671,991 | $6,396,388 | $6,540,009 | |||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $5,580,146 | $5,765,541 | $5,958,224 | |||||||
| Actual | $4,379,297 | $4,252,401 | $4,551,539 | $4,544,895 | $3,534,865 | $4,972,916 | $6,203,743 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.