Employment Insurance Act (S.C. 1996, c. 23)

Marginal note:Benefits payable to persons who qualify

• 7 (1) Unemployment benefits are payable as provided in this Part to an insured person who qualifies to receive them.

• Marginal note:Qualification requirement

  (2) An insured person qualifies if the person

  • (a) has had an interruption of earnings from employment; and

  • (b) has had during their qualifying period at least the number of hours of insurable employment set out in the following table in relation to the regional rate of unemployment that applies to the person.

  Regional Rate of Unemployment	Required Number of Hours of Insurable Employment in Qualifying Period
  6% and under	700
  more than 6% but not more than 7%	665
  more than 7% but not more than 8%	630
  more than 8% but not more than 9%	595
  more than 9% but not more than 10%	560
  more than 10% but not more than 11%	525
  more than 11% but not more than 12%	490
  more than 12% but not more than 13%	455
  more than 13%	420

• (3) to (5) [Repealed, 2016, c. 7, s. 209]

• Marginal note:Other benefit rights — Canada-U.S. agreement

  (6) An insured person is not qualified to receive benefits if it is jointly determined that the insured person must first exhaust or end benefit rights under the laws of another jurisdiction, as provided by Article VI of the Agreement Between Canada and the United States Respecting Unemployment Insurance, signed on March 6 and 12, 1942.