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The Conservative government will face difficulty proving that its plan to au
The Conservative government will face difficulty proving that its plan to au
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2024-04-23
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The Conservative government will face difficulty proving that its plan to automatically enroll eligible Canadians in the Old Age Security plan will save taxpayers money. An audit on the first phase of the program has found the department responsible, Employment and Social Development Canada(ESDC), couldn’t show "expected benefits" from the program because it has no measurable targets.
The government plans to gradually increase the age of eligibility for OAS benefits to 67 from 65 starting in 2023, but it plans to more quickly introduce automatic enrollment for eligible Canadians. The Tories argue the move will help federal coffers through reduced benefit costs and reduced service spending. The audit, however, concluded the department’ s targets "were not documented, specific or measurable." For instance, there were no "measurable targets" set for one of the keys to the government’s strategy: "improve services to Canadians." According to the audit, the department did plan to use one specific measurement to gauge effectiveness: the number of Canadians who could be enrolled automatically versus those who are actually enrolled.
The auditor, however, argued that this shouldn’t be used to show the government was reducing "costly paper processing", because some seniors who were auto-enrolled would still have to file paper applications "for a number of reasons" — such as to defer taking the OAS. "With limited baseline information on the costs for paper application processing, it will be difficult to demonstrate the planned productivity improvements and their associated savings," the auditors wrote in their report, dated February 2014 but only published a few weeks ago.
The government announced in the 2012 budget the eligibility age would change to 67 from 65, but it would be phased in over six years, starting in 2023. That means anyone who was 56 or older as of March of this year won’t be affected.
The government estimated the savings at $10.8 billion annually starting in 2030, when 9.3 million Canadians are projected to be eligible for OAS benefits—almost double the 4.7 million eligible in 2010. To further reduce costs, the government planned to automatically enroll eligible Canadians and eliminate the need for seniors to receive and return a mailed enrollment form.
The audit team reviewing the first phase of the OAS changes concluded ESDC had enough oversight for the first phase of the project, which was to use information already available within the department and to identify Canadians for possible automatic enrollment. However, auditors had concerns with how the department planned to prove in the long-term that the changes to the OAS program were having their intended effects. For example, "there is currently limited capacity to monitor the additional workload introduced by the implementation of automatic enrollment," they wrote. [br] What’s the benefits of introducing automatic enrollment for eligible Canadians according to the Tories?
选项
A、It can save money and time.
B、It will reduce OSA benefit costs and service spending.
C、It will increase the age of eligibility for OAS benefits.
D、It can help old people who are eligible for OSA benefits.
答案
B
解析
细节题。根据题干中的the Tories可以定位到文中的The government plansto gradually increase the age of eligibility for OAS benefits to 67 from 65 starting in 2023.but it planned to more quickly introduce automatic enrollment for eligible Canadians.The Tories argue the move will help federal coffers through reduced benefit costs and reduced service spending.从这里可以看出托利党认为自动注册老年保障计划可以通过减少养老金支出和服务费用来帮助联邦金库。所以B项讲可以减少养老金支出和服务费用符合文章意思。C项讲这个可以提高养老保障的年龄是错误的,提高年龄是措施之一,不是结果。A、D项的内容文章没有直接提及。因此,正确答案是B。
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