Employment Insurance Act

Marginal note:Claim

• 153.8 (1) Any claimant may, in the form and manner established by the Minister, make a claim for the employment insurance emergency response benefit for any two-week period starting on a Sunday and falling within the period beginning on March 15, 2020 and ending on October 3, 2020.

• Marginal note:Exception — week of September 27, 2020

  (1.1) Despite subsection (1), an employment insurance emergency response benefit is not payable to a claimant for the week beginning September 27, 2020 unless an employment insurance emergency response benefit was paid or payable to the claimant for any week beginning before that date.

• Marginal note:Limitation

  (2) A claim must not be made after December 2, 2020.

• Marginal note:Information

  (3) A claimant must provide the Minister with any information that the Minister may require in respect of the claim.

• Marginal note:Information — Employer

  (4) An employer must provide the Minister with any information that the Minister may require in respect of the claim.

• Marginal note:No benefit period — March 15 to September 26, 2020

  (5) For the period beginning on March 15, 2020 and ending on September 26, 2020, no benefit period is to be established with respect to any of the benefits referred to in paragraph 153.5(3)(a).

• Marginal note:No benefit period — September 27 to October 3, 2020

  (6) For the period beginning on September 27, 2020 and ending on October 3, 2020, no benefit period is to be established with respect to any of the benefits referred to in paragraph 153.5(3)(a) if

  • (a) an employment insurance emergency response benefit was paid or payable to the claimant for any week beginning before September 27, 2020; and

  • (b) the claimant has not claimed the employment insurance emergency response benefit for the maximum number of weeks referred to in section 153.11.

• Marginal note:Notification

  (7) On receiving a claim for the employment insurance emergency response benefit, the Commission shall decide whether the claimant is eligible for the benefit and whether the benefit is payable to the claimant for the two-week period in respect of which they claimed the benefit, and shall notify the claimant of its decisions in any manner that it considers adequate.