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The making of your premium rebate

Several steps led up to the mailing of your refund. This year we followed the same process as in 2006, when cheques were mailed out during the last week of April.

November to December 2006

• On November 28, 2006, the Public Utilities Board ordered a 10 per cent rebate on Basic Autopac policies in 2005/06.
• Based on the process followed the previous year, the corporation said it would send out the cheques in late April or early May.

February to March 2007

• On February 28, 2007, the 2005/06 insurance year ended for all customers, making it possible to begin testing our computer system’s ability to calculate the rebate accurately for all situations.
• After three weeks of testing and checking, the corporation was confident that the system was performing the calculations correctly. At this point, the corporation began calculating the rebate for each customer using “live” data.

March to April 2007

• Cheques were printed centrally on March 26 and 27
• Over a five week period, the cheques were printed, folded and inserted into envelopes. The work was done in the evenings because the equipment was tied up during the day with the normal business of the corporation, such as the processing of Autopac and driver’s licence renewal notices.
• At the end of April, the cheques were loaded onto trucks for transport to Canada Post.

May 1, 2007

• Canada Post began processing the cheques for delivery.

Rebate cheques are expected to begin arriving in customers’ mailboxes on May 2, 2007.