Employment Insurance (EI)
From Employment and Social Development Canada
The Employment Insurance (EI) program provides temporary income support to unemployed workers while they look for employment or to upgrade their skills. The EI program also provides special benefits to workers who take time off work due to specific life events (illness; pregnancy; caring for a newborn or newly adopted child, a critically ill child, or a family member who is seriously ill with a significant risk of death). Workers receive EI benefits only if they have paid premiums in the past year and meet qualifying and entitlement conditions. Self-employed workers may participate in EI and receive special benefits. The Canada Employment Insurance Commission (CEIC) plays a leadership role in overseeing the EI program. The CEIC is also responsible for setting the annual EI premium rate. Service Canada's role is to provide timely and accurate EI benefit payments and services, and to support EI clients through each stage of the service delivery process by providing benefit information, responding to enquiries, assisting employers, processing claims and providing the means to appeal decisions; conducting client authentication and identification; and preventing, detecting and deterring fraud and abuse.
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- Employment Insurance regular benefits
- Employment Insurance benefits for self-employed people
- Employment Insurance sickness benefits
- Employment Insurance and teachers
- Employment Insurance compassionate care benefits
- Employment Insurance Parents of Critically Ill Children benefits
- Employment Insurance benefits and farmers
- Employment Insurance fishing benefits
- Employment Insurance maternity and parental benefits
- Applying for Employment Insurance benefits online
- EI - Extended parental benefit period for military families
- EI - Workers and residents outside of Canada
- Internet Reporting Service
- Telephone Reporting Service
- How to complete your Employment Insurance paper report
- EI reconsideration
- Automated Earnings Reporting System
- Request for Payroll Information Forms
- Record of Employment
- Record of Employment on the Web (ROE Web)
- Access Record of Employment on the Web (ROE Web)
- EI - Information for employers
- Work-Sharing
- Premium Reduction Program - For employers
- Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Program
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