Employment Insurance Regulations - Part IV - Pilot Projects

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PART IV

PILOT PROJECTS

Pilot Project for Exemption from the Requirement to Make Periodic Claims for Benefits for Weeks of Unemployment in the Benefit Period

77. (1) The Commission shall establish Pilot Project No. 1 for the purpose of assessing the cost, the validity of payment, the operational impact and the effect on customer service to claimants of exempting them from the requirement in sections 49 and 50 of the Act to make periodic claims for benefits.

     (2)  The definitions in this subsection apply in this section.

     "condition of entitlement to benefits" means any requirement, circumstance or condition referred to in subsection 49(1) of the Act.

     "period of eligibility" means

(a) in respect of the benefits referred to in subparagraph (3)(d)(i)

(i) the aggregate of the waiting period referred to in section 13 of the Act and the period described in subsection 22(2) of the Act and any extension of the period described in subsection 22(2) of the Act, or

(ii) the aggregate of the period referred to in subsection 23(2) of the Act and the waiting period referred to in section 13 of the Act, unless that waiting period has already been taken into account for the purposes of subparagraph (i); and

(b) in respect of the benefits referred to in subparagraph (3)(d)(ii), the period during which the claimant attends a course or program, referred to in paragraph 25(1)(a) of the Act, that is an apprenticeship course or an apprenticeship program.

     (3)  A claimant is eligible to participate in Pilot Project No. 1 where

(a) the claimant resides in Canada;

(b) the claimant makes an initial claim for benefits or a claim in respect of which subsection 26(2) applies;

(c) the claimant's period of eligibility begins on or after June 30, 1996 and ends not later than June 26, 1999; and

(d) the claimant makes a claim for benefits in respect of every week of unemployment in the claimant's period of eligibility

(i) for either of the reasons referred to in paragraphs 12(3)(a) and (b) of the Act, or

(ii) under section 25 of the Act, to attend an apprenticeship course or an apprenticeship program.

     (4)  A claimant who is eligible to participate in Pilot Project No. 1 and who wishes to participate in the project shall complete and sign a form, supplied by the Commission, agreeing that

(a) to the best of the claimant's knowledge at the time of signing the form, there are no conditions of entitlement to benefits that will not be fully met for each week in the period of eligibility following the waiting period, except in respect of earnings that may be deducted pursuant to section 19, 22 or 23 of the Act during that period; and

(b) should the claimant cease to meet a condition of entitlement to benefits at any time during the period of eligibility where failure to meet that condition has the effect of reducing or eliminating any benefits for any week in the period of eligibility, the claimant will notify the Commission of the condition as soon as possible.

     (5)  For the purposes of sections 49 and 50 of the Act, a claimant who participates in Pilot Project No. 1 is, for the purpose of this section, deemed to have made a claim for benefits for every week of unemployment in the claimant's period of eligibility.

     (6)  Where the Commission becomes aware that the claimant does not meet a condition of entitlement to benefits during the claimant's period of eligibility, the Commission may terminate the claimant's participation in Pilot Project No. 1 as of the date on which the Commission becomes aware of the claimant's failure to meet the condition.

     (7)  Paragraph (3)(a) ceases to be in force on April 1, 1997.

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