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

Marginal note:Rate of weekly benefits

• 152.16 (1) The rate of weekly benefits payable to a self-employed person is 55% — or 33% for the weeks for which the self-employed person is paid benefits under section 152.05 in the case where the applicable maximum number of weeks is established in subparagraph 152.14(1)(b)(ii) — of the result obtained by dividing the aggregate of the amounts referred to in the following paragraphs (a) and (b) by 52:

  • (a) the amount of their self-employed earnings, determined under paragraph 152.01(2)(a), (b) or (c), as the case may be, for their qualifying period; and

  • (b) if they had insurable earnings from employment, including insurable earnings earned as a person to whom regulations made under Part VIII apply, for their qualifying period, the amount of those insurable earnings for that period, calculated without taking into account prescribed insurable earnings.

• Marginal note:Excess not to be included

  (2) Only the portion of the aggregate of the amounts referred to in paragraphs (1)(a) and (b) that does not exceed the maximum yearly insurable earnings as calculated under section 4 is to be taken into account for the purposes of subsection (1).