"GIS payments keep up with inflation". What a load of rubbish. My latest GIS increase was one percent but my house insurance went up twenty percent. My municipal taxes went up ten percent, gasoline went up ten percent and the Alberta carbon tax took up in one month what GIS increase I received  over a year. Those seniors with no pensions other than GIS and OAS and whose retirement savings were based on seven percent interest rates but are now at less than two percent (thanks to the likes of Poloz) are feeling the pinch very much but the writer of this article conveniently forgets that these people are still alive.