Figure 15 illustrates the incidence of OAS benefits for elderly immigrants in tax year 2000
broken down by immigrant category.34 This figure presents information on all elderly
immigrants within each category. The text below will provide more details on the elderly
subgroups within the immigrant categories.
Economic immigrants had, to a certain extent, a different incidence of OAS. Long-term elders in
the economic categories had lower incidence than that displayed in Figure 14. Short-term elders
had a similar pattern of incidence, with lower levels initially and an incidence of 95 percent in
the final years of observation. However, the increase was much more gradual for economic
immigrants. The sudden increase at the 10-year mark observed for the elderly population as a