The Registered Plans Directorate at the Canada Revenue Agency has updated the rates for money purchase, registered retirement savings plan, deferred profit sharing plan and defined benefit limits, which may be used to calculate pension adjustments, past service pension adjustments and pension adjustment reversals. The Directorate has also increased the Year's Maximum Pensionable Earnings (YMPE) to $50,100 for 2012.

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