Employment Insurance Regulations (SOR/96-332)

• 76.07 (1) The premium reduction rate determined under section 76.06 shall be made available to the public by the Commission as soon as possible after it is determined.

• (2) The reference to “premium rates” in the second sentence of section 66.5 of the Act shall be read as including a reference to the premium reduction rate determined in accordance with subsection 76.06(1).

76.08 The reimbursement amount paid by the Province of Quebec in accordance with section 4.5 of the Entente finale Canada-Québec sur le régime québécois d’assurance parentale, signed on March 1, 2005, shall be paid to the Receiver General and shall be considered as if it were an amount required to be paid into the Consolidated Revenue Fund under section 72 of the Act and shall be paid into that Fund.

• 76.09 (1) Subject to subsection (2), every claimant is disentitled to be paid benefits under section 22 or 23 of the Act if they are entitled to receive provincial benefits under a provincial plan.

• (2) Subsection (1) does not apply if, at the request of the claimant, it is determined by the Commission that the amount of provincial benefits the claimant is entitled to receive under the provincial plan is not substantially equivalent to or greater than the amount of benefits that they are entitled to receive under section 22 or 23 of the Act.

• (3) Every claimant who has received, or has applied for and is entitled to receive, provincial benefits under a provincial plan in respect of any week is disentitled to be paid benefits in respect of that same week under

  • (a) Part I of the Act, other than benefits under section 22 or 23 of the Act; or

  • (b) the Employment Insurance (Fishing) Regulations.

• (4) For greater certainty, subsections (1) to (3) apply in respect of a claimant who has applied for and is entitled to receive provincial benefits under a provincial plan even if the claimant, after making that application, ceases to reside in the province where that plan was established.

• (5) For greater certainty, if two persons are caring for the same child or children and one of them is a claimant referred to in subsection (4),

  • (a) subsections (1) to (3) apply in respect of the other person if that other person is an insured person; and

  • (b) subsections 76.36(1) to (3) apply in respect of the other person if that other person is a self-employed person.

• 76.1 (1) An insured person is considered not to be a new entrant or a re-entrant to the labour force for the purpose of subsection 7(4.1) of the Act if they

  • (a) have been paid one or more weeks of provincial benefits within the meaning of this Part or Part III.2 in the period of 208 weeks referred to in that subsection; and

  • (b) would have been entitled to receive the special benefits referred to in that subsection for that same period, had they not been paid those provincial benefits.

• (2) For the purpose of paragraph (1)(a),

  • (a) the reference to “a week of benefits” in subsection 25(1) shall be read as a reference to “a week of provincial benefits”; and

  • (b) the reference to “the percentage of benefits paid for a week” in subsection 25(2) shall be read as a reference to “the percentage of benefits that the claimant would have been entitled to receive for a week as special benefits referred to in subsection 7(4.1) of the Act, had they not been paid provincial benefits,”.