The proposed changes include additional weeks of eligibility to CRB, CRSB, CRCB and EI
The Canadian government recently announced that it will extend the number of weeks available for benefits under the Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB), the Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit (CRSB), the Canada Recovery Caregiving Benefit (CRCB) and Employment Insurance (EI). Canada introduced the three temporary recovery benefits to help individuals who required income support but did not qualify for EI, effective September 27, 2020.
The government announced these proposed changes on February 19, 2021. These regulatory and legislative amendments:
The government also proposed to allow self-employed workers, who opted in to the EI program to access special benefits, to use a threshold of $5,000 of net self-employment income in 2020 (compared to the previous threshold of $7,555). This change would be retroactive to claims established as of January 3, 2021 and would apply until September 25, 2021.
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