CPP & OAS survivor benefits - yeah, will be dealing with this sooner than later as my father-in-law is now in his third battle with bladder cancer in the past four years and the reality is that my mother-in-law will be dealing with getting CPP & OAS survivor benefits set up and going in the very near future barring some kind of miracle.

Now the CPP survivor benefit thing appears pretty straight forward to me but the OAS one - that seems to be quite a bit more of a minefield to navigate with no easily available straight forward answers available on their web site or certainly not as straight forward as CPP.

So have any of you beyonders gone through this process as of lates and if so, do you have any advice? I do know of the seniors.gc.ca web site - just haven't poked around there yet as there have been far more pressing things to deal with with respect to my father-in-law.