Digest of Benefit Entitlement Principles - Chapter 14

14.4.0    SPECIAL BENEFITS

Claimants engaged in the occupation of teaching are entitled to maternity, parental, and compassionate care benefits during both the teaching and non-teaching periods provided all entitlement criteria for these benefits are met¹.

Sickness benefits are payable during the teaching period if the entitlement conditions are met.  However, sickness benefits are not payable to teachers during the non-teaching periods unless one of the three conditions found in the regulation² is met³.

[June 2005]

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1. EIR 33(2);
2. EIR 33(2);
3. St-Coeur (A-80-95)