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:''NOTE:'' For more information on claiming pregnancy benefits, please refer to the ESDC website: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/ei/ei-maternity-parental.html. | :''NOTE:'' For more information on claiming pregnancy benefits, please refer to the ESDC website: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/ei/ei-maternity-parental.html. | ||
== | == H. Parental Benefits == | ||
There are two options available to parents; they may choose to get 55% of their wage for 40 weeks or they may choose to receive 33% of their wage for up to 69 weeks. These benefits are available to any parent, including adoptive parents, who experience an interruption of earnings to care for their new child.However, birth mothers can collect parental benefits in addition to their pregnancy benefits. | |||
Should parents elect to receive benefits for up to 40 weeks, parents can share the 40 weeks of benefits between them. However, each parent cannot individually claim more than 35 weeks. | |||
Should parents elect to receive benefits for up to 69 weeks, parents can share the total benefit between the them as they choose. However, no parent may receive more than 61 weeks of benefits individually. | |||
In either case, only parents who are major attachment claimants (i.e. have at least 600 insurable hours in their qualifying period) can qualify. In other words, each parent must qualify individually, and one parent cannot qualify on behalf of the other. For example, if one parent claims 35 weeks of benefits, then the other parent may claim a maximum of 5 weeks. | |||
The period during which parental benefits can be claimed begins on the day the child is born, or placed with the parent for the purposes of adoptions, and ends 52 weeks later. The 40 weeks of parental benefit do not need to be collected in consecutive weeks and can be collected at any time during this period. Like other EI benefits, the claimant will receive 55% of their average weekly earnings. | |||
== H. Provisions for Low Income Families == | == H. Provisions for Low Income Families == |