Consider Canada's national accounts.An example of a transfer payment is

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Transfer payments are payments made by the government to individuals or groups that do not involve any exchange of goods or services. Pensions paid from the Canada Pension Plan are an example of transfer payments, since they are payments made by the government to individuals without any exchange of goods or services in return. Choices A, B, D, and E involve either government spending on goods or services or private firms' payments to individuals, and therefore are not transfer payments.

Consider Canada's National Accounts