Employment Insurance Regulations

77.4 (1) Pilot Project No. 8 is established for the purpose of testing whether increasing the amount of a claimant’s allowable earnings from employment while the claimant is receiving benefits would encourage more claimants to accept employment while receiving benefits.

(2)  Pilot Project No. 8 applies in respect of every claimant who, at the time their benefit period is established, is ordinarily a resident in a region described in Schedule I that is set out in Schedule II.4.

(3) For the purpose of Pilot Project No. 8, subsection 19(2) of the Act is adapted such that the maximum allowable earnings shall be

• (a) $75, if the claimant’s rate of weekly benefits is less than $188; and

• (b) 40% of the claimant’s rate of weekly benefits, if that rate is $188 or more.