August 1, 2025
Think you are ready to be retired?
The emotional and social changes of retirement are just as important to your happiness as…
Think you are ready to be retired?
The emotional and social changes of retirement are just as important to your happiness as the financial arrangements you make.
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A presentation of the Public Sector Retiree Group.
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Are you facing lay-off? Don’t Cash In Your Pension
Read this before you take any action!
Welcome to The Association of British Columbia College Pension Plan Retirees’ website. As our name suggests, the CPPR represents retired members of the BC College Pension Plan, in other words retired instructors and administrators from some of BC’s universities and from the Colleges and Institutes.
Our Purpose is to advocate on behalf of our members and through our affiliations with other seniors’ groups on behalf of seniors in general. We also offer our members access to group insurance programs.
The primary purpose of our non-partisan society is to protect and enhance our College Pension Plan and other related pension benefits for current and future retirees.
CPPR achieves the purpose by:
- Lobbying, advocating, and working with our Trustees, Plan Partners, B.C. Pension Corporation, Affiliates, and External Organizations.
- Working with BC public sector pension plan retirees’ associations.
- Facilitating education on matters of common interest to our members
Our Affiliates
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You are invited to join the Association of British Columbia College Pension Plan Retirees (CPPR). CPPR offers Advocacy for and Service to BC retired post-secondary educators and administrators.
Latest News
June 18, 2025
2024 valuation results: members’ pensions are secure
We are pleased to announce that the College Pension Plan’s 2024 actuarial valuation determined that…
June 10, 2025
Updates from the Pension Plan Board about GSC Benefits
Board Communique - May 29, 2025 Changes to extended health care coverage for retired members…
April 1, 2025
Federal Election Day is April 8th, 2025
It's time to vote! Get all the information on where and how to vote in…
April 1, 2025
News from Mid-Island Elder College
When Vancouver Island University cut its support for Elder College programming at the end of…
Prime Time Newsletter
Do you have…
- insights into how to manage on our College Pensions?
- interesting photographs or stories of your recent travels?
- concerns about being a retired post-secondary educator today?
Why not write an article for Prime Time?
Please send any articles and photos to editor@cppr.ca by 15 December (Winter Issue) or 15 June (Summer Issue).
Please send illustrative photos as separate files not as an integral part of your article. Photos should be sent as .jpg, .png, or .gif files with a minimum dimensions of 600 x 800 or 800 x 600 pixels and a file size of at least 1 megabyte.
CPP Pension Fact Sheet
Click below to download this useful PDF.
Pension Plan Cheque Payment Dates
Visit the College Pension Plan web site to review all of these important dates and other information.
Current Issues
Keep up to date on what’s happening and what’s important to our CPPR members today. If you would like more information about a news item or issue, please send us a note.
Take the pledge to support public health care!
Despite Medicare win, we have been dragged back into the courts by Dr. Day and his supporters as they appeal the previous decision.
Medicare will be back on trial at the BC Court of Appeal in June 2021. We will be there to defend it and we need your support.
Parliament must step up and protect vulnerable pensioners
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that Canada’s social structures don’t protect seniors, and that includes their financial security. Pension protection is critical to the financial security of millions of seniors, and Parliament is finally in a position to offer vulnerable seniors that protection.