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Digest of Benefit Entitlement Principles
Digest of Benefit Entitlement Principles Chapter 18 - Policy on penalties
Table of contents
18.1.0 Introduction
18.1.1 Scope
18.1.2 Application and responsibilities
18.2.0 Legislation
18.2.1 Legislative authorities
18.2.2 Fishing claims
18.3.0 Misrepresentation
18.3.1 Definitions
18.3.1.1 Misrepresentation
18.3.1.2 Completed action
18.3.1.3 False
18.3.1.4 Misleading
18.3.1.5 Knowingly
18.3.2 Onus of proof
18.3.2.1 Evidence and proof: the balance of probabilities
18.3.2.2 Resolving equally balanced probabilities
18.3.3 Discretionary decisions and penalties
18.3.4 Voluntary disclosure
18.3.4.1 Voluntary disclosure policy
18.3.4.2 Error correction and voluntary disclosure
18.3.5 Non-compliance and social insurance number
18.4.0 Penalty
18.4.1 Definition
18.4.2 Limitations and restrictions on penalties
18.4.3 Reconsideration, monetary penalty and warning letters: timeframes
18.4.4 Counting false statements
18.4.4.1 The legal validation amount
18.4.4.2 Misrepresentation
18.4.4.3 Claimant reports
18.4.4.4 Claimant report: separation from employment
18.4.4.5 Exception reporting (no cards)
18.4.4.6 Cashing a warrant
18.4.4.7 Outside of Canada
18.4.4.8 Records of Employment
18.4.4.9 Totalling the false statements
18.5.0 Calculating a claimant penalty
18.5.1 Calculating a claimant penalty
18.5.1.1 Factors in calculating a penalty
18.5.1.2 Levels of misrepresentation – a percentage value
18.5.1.3 Reducing a penalty
18.5.2 Mitigating circumstances
18.5.2.1 Definition
18.5.2.2 Application
18.5.3 Legal validation amount
18.5.4 Caps on penalties
18.5.5 Record of employment: reason for separation altered
18.5.6 Claim not established or cancelled retroactively
18.5.7 Counting the false statements: the impact of a false ROE or ROE containing false information
18.5.7.1 Record of employment and application
18.5.8 Claimant reports and payments
18.5.9 The penalty calculation under EIA 38(2)(c)
18.5.10 Violation
18.5.11 Subsequent investigation for the same period
18.6.0 Employer penalties
18.6.1 Employer penalties
18.6.1.1 Scope
18.6.1.2 Who can be penalized
18.6.1.3 Defining employer misrepresentation
18.6.2 Level of misrepresentation: calculating a penalty under EIA 39(2)
18.6.3 Level of misrepresentation: calculating a penalty under EIA 39(2): a fixed maximum
18.7.0 Third party penalties
18.7.1 Introduction
18.7.2 Defining third party responsibility
18.7.3 Consent
18.7.3.1 Express consent
18.7.3.2 Implied consent
18.7.4 A claimant and third party
18.7.5 Employer and third party
18.7.6 Directors and officers of the corporation
18.8.0 Warning letters
18.9.0 Prosecution
18.10.0 Violation
18.10.1 Issuing a record of violation
18.10.2 Determining the kind of violation
18.10.3 The classified violation
18.10.3.1 The value of the violation
18.10.3.2 Calculating the net overpayment
18.10.3.3 Calculating the potential overpayment
18.10.3.4 When the file has net (real) and potential overpayments
18.10.4 Subsequent violations: an exception in the classified violations
18.10.5 The unclassified violation
18.10.6 Impact of a violation: increased entrance requirement
18.10.7 Limitations
18.10.8 Violations on fishing claims
18.11.0 Amendment: removing or reducing a penalty; removing a violation
18.12.0 Appeals
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2021-03-25
