Employment Insurance Regulations (SOR/96-332)

77.99 (1) Pilot Project No. 20 is established for the purpose of testing whether deducting from benefits payable to any claimant who has earnings during a week of unemployment 50% of those earnings, until the earnings are greater than 90% of their weekly insurable earnings, would encourage claimants to work more while receiving benefits.

(2) Pilot Project No. 20 applies in respect of every claimant who makes a claim for benefits for any week in the period beginning on August 7, 2016 and ending on August 11, 2018 and who is ordinarily resident in a region described in Schedule I.

(3) For the purpose of Pilot Project No. 20, section 19 of the Act is adapted by adding the following after subsection (2):

• (2.1) The amount to be deducted under subsection (2), except for the purpose of section 13, is equal to the total of

  • (a) 50% of the earnings that are less than or equal to 90% of the claimant’s weekly insurable earnings used to establish their rate of weekly benefits, and

  • (b) 100% of any earnings that are greater than 90% of the claimant’s weekly insurable earnings used to establish their rate of weekly benefits.

(4) For the purpose of Pilot Project No. 20, section 152.18 of the Act is adapted by adding the following after subsection (2):

• (2.1) The amount to be deducted under subsection (2), except for the purpose of section 152.15, is equal to the total of

  • (a) 50% of the earnings that are less than or equal to 90% of the sum of the amounts referred to in paragraphs 152.16(1)(a) and (b) divided by 52, and

  • (b) 100% of any earnings that are greater than 90% of the sum of the amounts referred to in paragraphs 152.16(1)(a) and (b) divided by 52.

(5) This section ceases to have effect on August 11, 2018.