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Digest of Benefit Entitlement Principles
Digest of Benefit Entitlement Principles Chapter 1 - Basic concepts
Table of contents
1.1.0 Authority
1.1.1 Summary
1.1.2 Roles and responsibilities
1.1.3 EI premiums & Insurable Employment
1.1.4 Purpose of Employment Insurance benefits
1.1.5 Types of Employment Insurance benefits
1.1.6 Requirement to apply for benefits
1.1.7 Who can receive benefits
1.1.7.1 Foreign Workers
1.1.8 Notification of a decision
1.2.0 Establishing a benefit period
1.2.1 Qualifying period
1.2.2 Required number of hours to qualify – variable entrance requirement
1.2.3 Increased entrance requirement sanction
1.2.4 Regional rate of unemployment
1.2.5 Ordinary residence
1.2.6 Benefit period not established
1.2.7 Record of employment
1.2.8 Major versus Minor Attached
1.3.0 Extension of qualifying period
1.3.1 Grounds for extension
1.3.1.1 Incapacity for work
1.3.1.2 Confinement in a prison or similar institution and not found guilty of the charge(s)
1.3.1.3 Receiving assistance under employment benefits
1.3.1.4 Receiving payments for preventative withdrawal work
1.3.2 Periods not counted for extensions of the qualifying period
1.3.3 Other reasons for not being employed in insurable employment
1.3.4 Calculation of the extension
1.4.0 Benefit period structure
1.4.1 Effective date of a benefit period
1.4.2 Duration of a benefit period
1.4.3 Number of weeks of benefits payable
1.4.3.1 Number of weeks of benefits payable to commuter and interstate claimants
1.4.4 Termination of a benefit period
1.4.5 Early termination
1.4.6 Cancellation of a benefit period
1.5.0 Extension of benefit period
1.5.1 Grounds for extension of the benefit period
1.5.1.1 Confinement in a prison or similar institution
1.5.1.2 Earnings due to complete severance from employer
1.5.1.3 Workers’ Compensation payments
1.5.1.4 Payment for preventative withdrawal from work
1.5.2 Grounds for extension when special benefits are claimed
1.5.2.1 Parental benefit period when child hospitalized
1.5.2.2 Parental benefit period for military families
1.5.3 Calculation of extension of the benefit period
1.5.4 More than one reason preventing payment
1.5.5 Determining a week of benefits paid
1.5.6 Extension due to Work-sharing
1.6.0 Disqualification
1.6.1 Grounds for disqualification
1.6.2 Effect of disqualification
1.6.3 Disqualifications and the payment of special benefits
1.6.4 Disqualification and disentitlement - same event
1.6.5 Length of disqualification
1.6.6 Employment about to terminate
1.6.7 Refusal of employment of short duration
1.6.8 Part-time employment
1.6.9 Course, or other employment related activity, or short duration or about to end
1.7.0 Disentitlement
1.7.1 Effect of disentitlement
1.7.2 Grounds for disentitlement
1.7.3 Length of disentitlement
1.8.0 Waiting period
1.8.1 Application
1.8.1.1 Waiting period waived
1.8.1.2 Waiting period deferred
1.8.2 Start of waiting period
1.8.3 Effect of waiting period
1.8.4 Days of disentitlement
1.8.5 Earnings in waiting period
1.9.0 Payment of benefit
1.9.1 Claimant’s reports – continuing claim
1.9.1.1 Exception reporting
1.9.1.2 Early reporting
1.9.1.3 Timeframes for reporting
1.9.1.4 Renewal claim
1.9.2 Calculation period (Benefit rate)
1.9.3 Weekly rate of benefit
1.9.4 Increase in the benefit rate
1.9.5 Benefit paid defined
1.9.6 Benefit Repayment Adjustment Calculation (Clawback)
1.9.7 Earnings while on claim
1.9.8 Days of disentitlement
1.9.9 Unpaid wages
1.9.10 Claim for more than one type of benefits
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2021-03-23
