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Employment Insurance Act - Part I - Unemployment Benefits
Current Version of the Employment Insurance Act
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PART I
UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
| Rate of weekly benefits | 14. (1) The rate of weekly benefits payable to a claimant is 55% of their weekly insurable earnings. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum weekly insurable earnings | (1.1) The maximum weekly insurable earnings is(a) $750 if the claimant's benefit period begins during the years 1997 to 2000; and |
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| Weekly insurable earnings | (2) A claimant's weekly insurable earnings are their insurable earnings in the rate calculation period divided by the larger of the following divisors:(a) the divisor that equals the number of weeks during the rate calculation period in which the claimant had insurable earnings, and |
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| Insurable earnings | (3) Insurable earnings in the rate calculation period shall be established and calculated in accordance with the regulations and include earnings from any insurable employment, regardless of whether the employment has ended. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rate calculation period | (4) The rate calculation period is the period of not more than 26 consecutive weeks in the claimant's qualifying period ending with the later of(a) the weekA prescribed week relating to employment in the labour force shall not be taken into account when determining what weeks are within the rate calculation period.(i) before the claimant's benefit period begins, if it begins on the Sunday of the week in which the claimant's last interruption of earnings occurs, or(b) the week before the claimant's benefit period begins, if the claimant has an insurable employment at the beginning of that period. |
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| Length of rate calculation period | (4.1) The rate calculation period is 26 weeks, unless the claimant's qualifying period begins on a Sunday that is less than 26 weeks before the Sunday of the week in which the rate calculation period ends under subsection (4), in which case it is the number of weeks between those Sundays. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reduction | 15. [Repealed 2001, c. 5. s. 5] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rate increase — family supplement | 16. (1) The rate of weekly benefits of a claimant who has one or more dependent children shall be increased by the amount of a family supplement determined in accordance with the regulations if the claimant establishes, in such manner as the Commission may direct, that the claimant meets the prescribed low-income family eligibility criteria. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criteria | (2) The criteria for low-income family eligibility may include criteria that are the same as or similar to the criteria for receiving a child tax benefit. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Child tax benefit | (3) For the purposes of subsection (2), a child tax benefit is a deemed overpayment under subdivision a.1 of Division E of Part I of the Income Tax Act. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum increase | (4) The amount of the increase in the claimant's rate of weekly benefits shall not exceed the prescribed percentage of the claimant's weekly insurable earnings or, if no percentage is prescribed, 25%. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum rate of weekly benefits | 17. The maximum rate of weekly benefits is 55% of the maximum yearly insurable earnings divided by 52. |
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