Annex 5: Employment Insurance financial information

Official title: Employment Insurance Monitoring and Assessment Report for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2018 and ending March 31, 2019: Annex 5: Employment Insurance financial information

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List of abbreviations

This is the complete list of abbreviations for the Employment Insurance Monitoring and Assessment Report for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2018 and ending March 31, 2019.

Abbreviations
ASETS
Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy
ATSSC
Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada
B/C Ratio
Benefits-to-Contributions ratio
B/U Ratio
Benefits-to-Unemployed ratio
B/UC Ratio
Benefits-to-Unemployed Contributor ratio
BDM
Benefit Delivery Modernization
CANSIM
Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System
CAWS
Citizen Access Workstation Services
CCAJ
Connecting Canadians with Available Jobs
CCB
Canada Child Benefit
CCDA
Canadian Council of Directors of Apprenticeship
CEIC
Canada Employment Insurance Commission
COLS
Community Outreach and Liaison Service
CSO
Citizen Service Officer
CPI
Consumer Price Index
CPP
Canada Pension Plan
CRA
Canada Revenue Agency
CRF
Consolidated Revenue Fund
CUSMA
Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement
CX
Client Experience
EBSMs
Employment Benefits and Support Measures
ECC
Employment Contact Centre
EF
Enabling Fund
EI
Employment Insurance
EI PAAR
Employment Insurance Payment Accuracy Review
EI PRAR
Employment Insurance Processing Accuracy Review
EICS
Employment Insurance Coverage Survey
eROE
Electronic Record of Employment
ESDC
Employment and Social Development Canada
FLMM
Forum of Labour Market Ministers
FY
Fiscal Year
G7
Group of Seven
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
HCCS
Hosted Contact Centre Solution
HRSDC
Human Resources and Social Development Canada
IQF
Individual Quality Feedback
IVR
Interactive Voice Response
LFS
Labour Force Survey
LMDA
Labour Market Development Agreements
LMI
Labour Market Information
LMP
Labour Market Partnerships
MIE
Maximum Insurable Earnings
MSCA
My Service Canada Account
NAICS
North American Industry Classification System
NAFTA
North American Free Trade Agreement
NAS
National Apprenticeship Survey
NERE
New-Entrant/Re-Entrant
NESI
National Essential Skills Initiative
NIS
National Investigative Services
NOS
National Occupational Standards
NQCP
National Quality and Coaching Program for Call Centres
OAS
Old Age Security
OECD
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
PPEs
Clients who are Premiums Paid Eligible
P/Ts
Provinces and Territories
PPTS
Percentage points
PRP
Premium Reduction Program
QPIP
Quebec Parental Insurance Plan
RAIS
Registered Apprenticeship Information System
ROE
Record of Employment
RSOS
Red Seal Occupational Standards
SA
Social Assistance
SCC
Service Canada Centres
SDP
Service Delivery Partner
SEPH
Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours
SIN
Social Insurance Number
SIR
Social Insurance Registry
SME
Small and medium sized enterprises
SO
Scheduled Outreach
SST
Social Security Tribunal
STDP
Short-term disability plan
SUB
Supplemental Unemployment Benefit
UV
Unemployed-to-job-vacancy ratio
VBW
Variable Best Weeks
VER
Variable Entrance Requirement
WWC
Working While on Claim

Annex 5.1 – Employment Insurance operating account ($ million)

Statement of operations and accumulated surplus (deficit) for the year ended March 31Footnote 1

Note: Data may not add up to the total due to rounding.

Source: Government of Canada, Public Accounts of Canada 2019, Volume I: Summary Report and Consolidated Financial Statements (Ottawa: Receiver General for Canada, 2019) and past year versions of the Public Accounts report.

Revenues and funding FY1617 FY1718 FY1819
Premiums 22,537.4 21,533.0 22,698.4
Interest2 14.7 16.6r 21.2
Penalties 51.3 64.4r 62.0
Total revenues and funding 22,603.3 21,614.0 22,781.6
  • r Revised.
  • 2 This interest includes interest accrued on overdue accounts receivable.
Expenditures3: Part I Employment Insurance benefits FY1617 FY1718 FY1819
Regular benefits 12,907.2 11,751.0 10,639.3
Fishing benefits 300.6 326.9 332.8
Work-Sharing benefits 47.5 12.9 5.8
Special benefits for insured employees 5,529.2 5,755.2 5,878.6
Parental benefits4 2,721.3 2,805.0 2,771.9
Sickness benefits 1,560.3 1,681.6 1,781.3
Maternity benefits 1,172.0 1,175.3 1,191.6
Other special benefits5 75.5 93.3 133.8
Special benefits for self-employed 9.8 9.7 9.9
Total income benefits 18,794.3 17,855.6 16,866.3
Less: Benefit repayments6 (263.1) (308.6) (286.2)
Total Part-I: Employment Insurance benefits 18,531.2 17,547.1 16,580.0
  • 3 Expenditures reported in Chapter II of this report are based on administrative data and may differ from the ones reported in the financial statements of the Employment Insurance Operating Account that are included in the Public Accounts of Canada, due to methodological differences.
  • 4 Include parental benefits paid to biological parents and adoptive parents.
  • 5 Include compassionate care benefits (for FY1617, FY1718 and FY1819), benefits for parents of critically ill children (for FY1617 and FY1718) and family caregiver benefits (for FY1718 and FY1819).
  • 6 These repayments correspond to benefit repayments from higher income claimants.
Expenditures: Part-II Employment benefits and support measures FY1617 FY1718 FY1819
Employment benefits7 2,067.4 2,048.6 2,171.0
Support measures 112.5 119.2 137.0
Labour market partnerships 106.7 112.6 133.3
Research and innovation 5.8 6.6 3.7
Total Part-II: Employment benefits and support measures 2,179.9 2,167.8 2,307.9
  • 7 These benefits correspond to transfer payments to provinces and territories related to labour market development agreements, net of previous fiscal years’ over-contribution.
Expenditures: Administration costs FY1617 FY1718 FY1819
Employment and Social Development Canada – Personnel related-costs 823.0 985.1 950.3
Employment and Social Development Canada – Non-personnel related costs 447.8 384.0 379.3
Canada Revenue Agency – Collection of premiums and rulings 230.2 214.5 212.8
Treasury Board Secretariat – Health Insurance Plan and Public Service Insurance 79.0 92.6 83.3
Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada – Social Security Tribunal 9.2 14.2 18.2
Courts Administration Services 1.1 1.0 1.0
Less: Recovery of costs from the Canada Pension Plan for maintaining the social insurance number registry (5.6) (5.3) (4.1)
Total administration costs: Related parties 1,584.6 1,686.2 1,640.7
Total administration costs: External parties (administration costs incurred by provinces and territories under the LMDA) 191.2 191.6 189.7
Total administration costs 1,775.9 1,877.8 1,830.4
Expenditures FY1617 FY1718 FY1819
Benefits and support measures 20,711.1 19,714.9 18,887.9
Administration costs 1,775.9 1,877.8 1,830.4
Bad debts 31.9 69.3 99.0
Total expenditures 22,518.9 21,662.0 20,817.4
Net surplus for the year 84.4 (48.0) 1,964.3
Accumulated surplus (deficit) at beginning of year 2,914.9 2,999.4 2,951.4
Accumulated surplus (deficit) at end of year 2,999.4 2,951.4 4,915.6

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