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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1987-08-12, Page 5Sleeping- -money TO To the Editor: Perhaps the following should help some readers to reach for sleeping money. We all work for money. Some worked here, some worked there; some worked everywhere. After fifty to sixty years of work, a lot of people are con- vinced that they had been suffering from a persistent virus called work. Only aging annihilates the darned thing. But the trouble with aging is that it left us puzzled and wondering. We lack the stamina to persist to work and we quickly wonder where from the money will come. Lo and behold, Health and Welfare Canada comes to the rescue. Basically, this safety net organization provides some support for our golden years. And, with private pension tagging along, things are not that bad after all. This is why we'll never be called socialists although we all here carry a socialist security number. It happens that a lot of aging folks work- ed somewhere else than in Canada. Somewhere else where pensions are payable at age sixty. For instance, if you were born say in Belgium and had come here at age one or two or ten, you would be entitled to receive your Belgian old age pension at age sixty provided you didn't change your landed immigrant status. Ever wonder why seniors who never took Canadian citizenship are often going abroad for a visit? They go to cash pen- sions. Pensions that they conveniently forget to declare to Revenue Canada. Revenue Canada, well known since Wilson for the tricky ways it squeezes money from old folks, recently engineered an international agreement with many countries to catch part if not all of these undeclared revenues. In liaison with Health and Welfare Canada, foreign governments are now passing on to Ottawa the social security number of landed.immigrants and former immigrants reaching age sixty. Some would beef; some would agree to pay taxes. The trouble is that some old folks will kick the bucket before part of the sleeping money reaches their place. Governments have been at this International Agreement for three years now. So far, this profitable Agreement is only profitable to the legion of civil servants learning here how other countries looked after their aging popula- tion long before Canada pension was instituted. So, for the living who want to grab a seat at this distribution of sleeping money from the pensions system of their country of origin here is the real MacCoy address: Health and Welfare Canada Income Security Programs International Liaison Brooke Claxton Building Ottawa, Ontario Canada KM OL4 Yours truly, A. Joe Legrand Lucknow, Ont. Editor's Note: While this has nothing to, do with the above letter, we thought we'd take the time to include a small request on behalf of this office. Over the past two weeks we have heard a number of complaints about the misspellings of names etc. here in tht. Sentinel. While we admit we don't catch every typing mistake, it is more often than not due to poor handwriting on the original information we received. If you have an item you'd like printed here in the newspaper, we'd be happy to comply but please help us out by either typing out your information or, at least, printing it legibly. An 'e' can easily become an '1' when scribbled on a scrap of paper and submitted to us to retype. Also, be sure the information you submit to us is correct when we receive it. We have neither the manpower or the time to check every little detail of information we receive: For example, last week we ran a small write-up on each of the girls running for Queen of the Dungannon Fair. In those biographies, we mentioned that Debbie Harnett was currently in Grade 10 at Cen- tral Huron Secondary because that is the information we received. At age 20 Debbie has, in fact, been out of school for some time and we regret the mistake...but that is what we were told and printed it as such. No one likes to see their name misspell- ed or left out completely. We are doing our best, please help us out by doing yours. ■ qw�1■ ■ 1111■ ■ 1111 11■ ■ 111■ ■ ■■■■■■■■■■■ 1111`•9■■■ ■ ■1■ ■■ 14?p RED HAVEN PEACHES Are Ready! Perfect for Canning & Freezing (Free Stone) Pick Your Own JUICY FIELD TOMATOES Great for Chili Sauce & Canning, etc. • LARGE CANTALOUPES (Muskmelon) •SWEET CORN •SUMMER APPLES For Eating and Cooking Also Available... Spanish Onions New Potatoes Pine River Cheese New Crop Honey Maple Syrup Apple Butter "Bring Your Own Containers" • 1%166 ■ o .o • LASSALINE °,�� Farm Market and Orchards 404, Taw toy Pia■ • ■•• ln� ■■■ Signs ■ • 111 .■m 3r 5.6 miles south of Ooderich (Past th• Driva- AW i sc AuNI1 concession 3 & 4 of ©odorich 'hew Follow th• oAcw►ao, 1110.114110 s OPEN: Mon. 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