Section 153.8 — Employment Insurance Act: Claim

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. 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. A claim must not be made after December 2, 2020. A claimant must provide the Minister with any information that the Minister may require in respect of the claim. An employer must provide the Minister with any information that the Minister may require in respect of the claim. 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). 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 an employment insurance emergency response benefit was paid or payable to the claimant for any week beginning before September 27, 2020; and the claimant has not claimed the employment insurance emergency response benefit for the maximum number of weeks referred to in section 153.11. 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.