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Planned Spending by Vote under Program Activity 5: Government-wide Funds and Public Service Employer Payments
Planned spending in this program activity relates mainly to the following votes:
Vote 20—Public Service Insurance
This vote, which supports the Treasury Board's role as employer, is used for the following:
- Public service pension, benefits, and insurance, including payment of the employer's share of health, income maintenance, and life insurance premiums;
- Payments to or in respect of provincial health insurance plans;
- Payment of provincial payroll taxes and Quebec sales tax on insurance premiums;
- Costs associated with the pension, benefit, and insurance plans for employees engaged locally outside Canada; and
- The return to certain employees of their share of the employment insurance premium reduction.
Other contingency funds are available to other government departments, if required, and expenditures will be identified under their program activities. The following votes are therefore excluded from the Secretariat's planned spending:
Vote 5—Government Contingencies
This vote provides the government with the authority and flexibility to meet unforeseen or urgent expenditures until parliamentary approval can be obtained. Most of the items in this vote are considered temporary advances to cover items that will be included in subsequent Supplementary Estimates for other departments and agencies and reimbursed when the associated appropriation act is passed.
Vote 10—Government-wide Initiatives
This vote supplements other departments and agencies' appropriations that support the implementation of strategic management initiatives across the public service. Historically, this vote has been used to support such initiatives as Government On-Line, comptrollership innovation and modernization, the Financial Information Strategy, employment equity, and program evaluation and internal audit.
Vote 25—Operating Budget Carry Forward
This vote allows for routine operating budget carry-forward (OBCF) amounts, as established under the OBCF policy, to be transferred directly to departments and agencies, in a timely manner, once eligible amounts have been confirmed by the Secretariat and approved by Treasury Board ministers. The $1.2 billion in this vote, which represents no additional cost to the government, corresponds to the approximate amount of potential requirements that would otherwise have been presented in multiple Supplementary Estimates by departments and agencies.
Vote 30—Paylist Requirements
This vote covers departments and agencies' paylist shortfalls related to parental benefits, severance, and other allowances. To avoid discrimination in hiring practices, pay-list costs related to these expenditures have been provided for centrally since the introduction of the Operating Budget regime in 1993. This vote provides relief from cash management challenges departments and agencies face for these legal obligations.