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Compassionate Care Benefits may be paid up to a maximum of 26 weeks to a major attachment claimant who has to be absent from work to provide care or support to a gravely ill family member or a person who considers the claimant to be like a family member and is at risk of dying within 26 weeks. The benefits for compassionate care must be claimed within a 52-week period that generally starts on the day the doctor certifies the family member is likely to die. Unemployed persons on EI can also apply for this type of benefit. | Compassionate Care Benefits may be paid up to a maximum of 26 weeks to a major attachment claimant who has to be absent from work to provide care or support to a gravely ill family member or a person who considers the claimant to be like a family member and is at risk of dying within 26 weeks. The benefits for compassionate care must be claimed within a 52-week period that generally starts on the day the doctor certifies the family member is likely to die. Unemployed persons on EI can also apply for this type of benefit. | ||
To be eligible for Compassionate Care Benefits a claimant must apply and show that: | To be eligible for Compassionate Care Benefits a claimant must apply and show that: | ||
The ''EI Act''’s expanded definition of “family member” includes a claimant’s: | *his or her regular weekly earnings from work have decreased by more than 40 percent; and | ||
*own child or the child of the spouse or common-law partner; | *he or she has accumulated 600 insured hours in her qualifying period. | ||
*wife/husband or common-law partner; | |||
The '''EI Act'''’s expanded definition of “family member” includes a claimant’s: | |||
*own child or the child of the spouse or common-law partner; | |||
*wife/husband or common-law partner; | |||
*father/mother or father’s wife/mother’s husband, if parent is remarried; | *father/mother or father’s wife/mother’s husband, if parent is remarried; | ||
*common-law partner of father/mother, if there has been no remarriage; | *common-law partner of father/mother, if there has been no remarriage; | ||
*other relatives; and | *other relatives; and | ||
*anyone that the gravely ill person considers to be like a family member. | *anyone that the gravely ill person considers to be like a family member . | ||
To establish a claim for compassionate care benefits in order to care for a gravely ill person who | To establish a claim for compassionate care benefits in order to care for a gravely ill person who considered you to be like a family member, medical proof is required. This includes an Authorization to Release Medical Certificate form signed by the gravely ill person or their legal representative and a Medical Certificate for Employment Insurance Compassionate Care Benefits form signed by the medical doctor. | ||
== 1. Sharing Compassionate Care Benefits == | |||
Compassionate care benefit can be shared with other family members as long as each one of the family members is also eligible. Family members can claim the benefits at the same time or at different times as long as the number of weeks claimed for compassionate care benefits does not exceed 26 weeks altogether. | |||
There is still a one-week waiting period before benefits can be claimed. However, if the benefit is to be shared with other family members, only the first family member to claim compassionate care benefit has to serve the one-week waiting period. | |||
:NOTE: For more information on claiming compassionate care benefits, and for a comprehensive list of persons included under the term “family member,” please refer to the ESDC website: http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/ei/types/compassionate_care.shtml#Definition. | |||
== E. Benefits for Parents of Critically Ill Children (PCIC) == | == E. Benefits for Parents of Critically Ill Children (PCIC) == | ||
