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== B. Special Benefits == | == B. Special Benefits == | ||
Special benefits are available in special circumstances where the claimant has not lost their employment. Self-employed Canadians and permanent residents can also opt in. Ordinarily, a claimant requires 600 hours to qualify for special benefits, but temporary measures have lowered the requirement to 420 hours until September 24th, 2022. The rest of this chapter refers to the 420 hours threshold, but please note that number may change after September 24th, 2022. Please see the CRA website for the most up to date version of the rules. There are six types of EI special benefits: sickness, compassionate care, maternity, parental benefits, benefits for parents caring for a critically ill child, and benefits for persons providing care for a critically ill adult family member (s 12(3)). More than one type of special benefit can be claimed within one benefit period. Similarly, special and regular benefits claims can be combined. However, s 12(6) sets out the maximum for such a combination. If a claimant has not collected any regular benefits and is just combining different special benefits to which they are entitled, the maximum number of weeks the claimant can collect is the combined maximum for each of the special benefits they are collecting. To ensure they have time to collect all these combined weeks, their benefit period will also be extended to the combined maximum number of weeks of special benefits they can collect. | |||
If the claimant has collected regular benefits but is also entitled to collect special benefits during their benefit period, then the claimant can combine weeks of benefits, but the maximum number of combined weeks cannot be higher than 50. | If the claimant has collected regular benefits but is also entitled to collect special benefits during their benefit period, then the claimant can combine weeks of benefits, but the maximum number of combined weeks cannot be higher than 50. | ||
