Employment Insurance (EI)
Workers receive EI benefits only if they have paid premiums in the past year and meet qualifying and entitlement conditions. Self-employed workers may participate in EI and receive special benefits.
The Digest of Entitlement Principles
The Digest of Benefit Entitlement Principles contains the principles applied by the Employment Insurance Commission when providing information and guidance on legislative and regulatory requirements. These principles are also applied when making decisions on claims for EI benefits under the Employment Insurance Act and its regulations.
Canada Employment Insurance Commission (CEIC)
The Canada Employment Insurance Commission plays a leadership role in overseeing the EI program. The CEIC is also responsible for setting the annual EI premium rate. Service Canada's role is:
- to provide timely and accurate EI benefit payments and services
- to support EI clients through each stage of the service delivery process by:
- providing benefit information
- responding to enquiries
- assisting employers
- processing claims and providing the means to appeal decisions
- conducting client authentication and identification, and
- preventing, detecting and deterring fraud and abuse
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- EI for individuals
- EI for employers
Services
- Employment Insurance regular benefits
- Employment Insurance benefits for self-employed people
- Employment Insurance sickness benefits
- Employment Insurance and teachers
- Caregiving benefits and leave
- Employment Insurance benefits and farmers
- Employment Insurance fishing benefits
- Employment Insurance maternity and parental benefits
- EI - Extended parental benefit period for military families
- EI - Workers and residents outside of Canada
- Submitting EI reports
- EI reconsideration
- Automated Earnings Reporting System
- Request for Payroll Information Forms
- Record of Employment
- Record of Employment on the Web (ROE Web)
- Access Record of Employment on the Web (ROE Web)
- EI - Information for employers
- Work-Sharing
- Working while on claim
- Premium Reduction Program - For employers
- Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Program
