Canada Emergency Student Benefit Act (S.C. 2020, c. 7)

Marginal note:Eligibility

• 6 (1) A student is eligible for a Canada emergency student benefit if

  • (a) for reasons related to the coronavirus disease 2019 and whether as an employee or in self-employment, they are unable to work, are seeking work and unable to find it, or are working but are paid less than the amount determined under the regulations, during the four-week period for which they apply for the benefit; and

  • (b) they do not, in respect of any part of that four-week period, receive

    • (i) subject to the regulations, income from employment or self-employment,

    • (ii) benefits, as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Employment Insurance Act, or an employment insurance emergency response benefit referred to in section 153.7 of that Act,

    • (iii) allowances, money or other benefits that would be paid to the student under a provincial plan because of pregnancy or in respect of the care by the student of one or more of their new-born children or one or more children placed with them for the purpose of adoption,

    • (iv) an income support payment under the Canada Emergency Response Benefit Act, or

    • (v) any other income that is prescribed by regulation.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (2) With the consent of the Minister of Finance, the Minister may make regulations

  • (a) respecting the meaning of terms referred to in paragraph (1)(a) and the amount referred to in that paragraph;

  • (b) excluding income from the application of subparagraph (1)(b)(i); and

  • (c) prescribing any other income for the purposes of subparagraph (1)(b)(v).

• Marginal note:Information — employment opportunities

  (3) The Minister is to make available to eligible students information about employment opportunities through a government-managed job posting system.