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2025 Pensioner Statements & 2026 COLA: coming in December
Sep 25, 2025
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2026 Cost-of-Living Adjustment
UBC Staff Pension Plan pensioners will receive a 1.4% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to their pension effective January 1, 2026. This adjustment is based on 70% of the change in the Consumer Price Index. Details regarding how indexing is determined may be read on the COLA page. Pensioners who retired in 2025 will receive a prorated […]
2024 Cost-of-Living Adjustment
UBC Staff Pension Plan pensioners will receive a 3.08% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to their pension effective January 1, 2024. This adjustment is based on 70% of the change in the Consumer Price Index. Details regarding how indexing is determined may be read in the 2023 SPP Pensioner Newsletter and on the COLA page. Pensioners who […]
Episode 7: COLA/Indexing
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2023 Cost of Living Adjustment
UBC Staff Pension Plan pensioners will receive a 3.25% Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) to their pension effective January 1, 2023. This adjustment is based on 50% of the change in the Consumer Price Index. Details regarding how indexing is determined may be read in the 2022 SPP Pensioner Newsletter and on the COLA page. Pensioners who […]
2022 Cost of Living Adjustment
UBC Staff Pension Plan pensioners will receive a 1.35% Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) to their pension effective January 1, 2022. This adjustment is based on 50% of the change in the Consumer Price Index. Details regarding how indexing is determined may be read in the 2021 SPP Pensioner Newsletter and on the COLA page. Pensioners […]
2021 Cost of Living Adjustment
UBC Staff Pension Plan retirees will receive a 0.50% Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) to their pension effective January 1, 2021. This adjustment is based on 50% of the increase in the Consumer Price Index in the last year. Details regarding how indexing is determined may be read on the COLA page. Pensioners who retired in […]
2020 Cost of Living Adjustment
UBC Staff Pension Plan retirees will receive a 0.95% Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) to their pension effective January 1, 2020. This adjustment is based on 50% of the increase in the Consumer Price Index in the last year. Details regarding how indexing is determined may be read on the COLA page. Pensioners who retired in […]
2019 Cost of Living Adjustment
UBC Staff Pension Plan retirees will receive a 1.15% Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) to their pension effective January 1, 2019. This adjustment is based on 50% of the increase in the Consumer Price Index in the last year. Details regarding how indexing is determined may be read on the COLA page. Pensioners who retired in […]
Important Dates
2018 Retiree Statements Pensioners will receive their annual retiree statement in December 2018, which includes their Cost of Living Adjustment information. You can opt out of paper statements through myPension. 2018 Annual Statements (for Active and Deferred Members) Active and Deferred members will receive their annual statement as at December 31, 2018 in May 2019. […]
2018 Cost of Living Adjustment
On January 1, 2018, SPP retirees received an increase to their pension of 0.75%.