Case Study · Financial Products & Retirement
$1.2 Billion in Social Value Identified for Alberta Pension Members
Public-sector pensions across LAPP, PSPP and SFPP were assessed for the value of retirement security created for members.
Headline finding
$1.2 billion
What the Work Shows
The case shows how pension value can be expressed beyond benefit payments by connecting retirement security to member wellbeing.
This work follows consequences through the people affected, compares outcomes with a relevant counterfactual, and makes distributional effects visible rather than relying only on aggregate totals.
Explore the methodology →Why It Matters
Decision-makers can use this kind of evidence to understand both the scale of an outcome and who experiences it — a stronger basis for comparing options, communicating value and testing whether an intervention improves people's lives.
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