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Not only does there appear to be no CPP survivor benefits, but is there any way to include child-rearing drop-out provisions when calculating CPP?

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For CRP: I see you entered the dependents and your spouse as their caregiver, that’s good.

However for the CRP to make any difference, your spouse would have to have had  lower than her career average earnings in those child-caring years.
Her CPP table shows 50% of max for all years, so no years are below average. To get an accurate CRP, you should enter an accurate CPP table. I think myAccount at the CRA is still down so it’s not easy to get the actual table at the moment, but you might have it in your records?
 
For the survivor pension, this depends on both your calculated pensions, so again make sure the CPP tables entered are accurate.