Benefits and programs

Employment Insurance

• Regular benefits
• Sickness benefits
• Benefits for farmers
• Fishing benefits
• Special benefits for self-employed people
• EI for self-employed, farmers, and independent workers
• Workers outside Canada
• Military family benefits
• Benefits for teachers
• EI reconsideration
• My Service Canada Account
• Employment Insurance reporting
• EI and the various types of earnings
• Find a job
• Suitable employment
• Variable best weeks
• Earnings chart
• EI and overpayments
• Repaying overpayments
• EI for independent workers and professionals
• Working while on claim
• EI benefit statement

Employment Insurance for employers

• Information for employers
• Record of employment (ROE)
• Record of employment on the web (ROE web)
• Employer responsibilities
• Premium Reduction Program - For employers
• Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Program
• Payroll forms request
• Automated Earnings Reporting System
• Work force downsizing
• Compassionate care benefits
• Supplementing special family benefits
• Parents of murdered or missing children
• SIN for employers

Family-related Employment Insurance benefits

• Maternity and parental benefits
• Caregiving benefits and leave

Premium Reduction Program - For employers

2021

• Maximum insurable earnings 2021
• 2021 Rates and multiples
• 2021 Rates and Multiples - Quebec Parental Insurance Plan contributors

2020

• Maximum insurable earnings 2020
• 2020 Rates and multiples
• 2020 Rates and Multiples - Quebec Parental Insurance Plan Contributors

2019

• Maximum insurable earnings 2019
• 2019 Rates and multiples
• 2019 Rates and Multiples - Quebec Parental Insurance Plan Contributors

Records of employment

• Register for ROE web
• Sign-in to ROE web
• ROE web agreement
• User requirements
• Variable best weeks for employers
• Weekly pay-periods worksheet
• Authentication of a Primary Officer located outside of Canada
• How to complete the record of employment (ROE) form

Regular benefits

• Section 1 – Applying for benefits
• Section 2 – Eligibility criteria
• Section 3 – Duration of benefits and amounts paid
• Section 4 – Specific situations
• Section 5 – Protecting Employment Insurance – With your help
• Section 6 – Rights and responsibilities
• Section 7 – Contacts and other useful information

Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Program guide

• Introduction
• Part I - Plan requirements
• Part II – Sample plan
• Part III – Additional information
• Part IV – Plan registration

Related information

• Employment Insurance A to Z index
• FAQs for EI benefits online
• EI tax slips (T4Es) and itemized statements
• EI tax slips online service
• EI and fired for misconduct
• EI and voluntarily leaving
• Premium Reduction Program exception
• EI and courses or training programs
• EI and compensation for work accidents and illness