How do you apply for Employment Insurance
 

Like the topic says, how do you apply for employment insurance? Thanks!

link no work fo me

click it again :)

my dad just did it :( its easy but takes over a month to get paid which is bs.

you need your record of employment, your work might send it to ei in advance but you still need to deliver a copy I believe.

Well, that doesn't seem unreasonable considering the government is essentially giving you free money.

^Which you paid with each pay cheque.

well some of it anywayz

Apparently the gov't has a 10b surplus from EI.

Well everyone pays for it...

If you want to receive it, you have to go through the process. It isn't asking for too much anyways. Instead of people complaining, why don't people try to make it better? Make some suggestions on how to improve the processing method and how to make it more efficient.

U can only apply TWO weeks after you've been unemployed. So takes 1 month to get the first two weeks. Then every two weeks you need to check in and prove that you're looking for a job.

I applied for it not too long ago when I was in transition to a new job that got delayed a month. I got $80 fucking dollars for the month.

Not worth my time of going to the fucking EI office, and online plus phone calls.

just got my first deposit today.. i was laid off my seasonal job on dec 5th, i applied on the 18th, dropped off my Record of employment on the 23rd... it was all processed by the 4th or 5th of jan..

i am entitled to $300+ per week for up to 20 weeks.

not bad.. till i find a new job

thats pretty good I got rejected because I didn't work long enough in my last job

how long do you have to be working to apply for E.I?

several months i presume

I'm not sure of the details, but I'm pretty sure the website: servicecanada.gc.ca would have th info for you. If not, you can drop by their offices. They are pretty helpful, especially when it comes to job searching.

You need to work min. of 960 hours. That's 6 months to qualify for EI

they did about 10 years ago when the liberals jacked up the rates. But then they spent it all in general revenue.... which is why the liberals always had surplus budgets 5-10 years ago. every year they just took money out of the EI fund.

can you travel anywhere if you are on EI?

you have to let them know you are leaving, and they will dedect pay for the days you are away.

unless you can prove you were travelling to look for work in other citys.

what about if you go on the weekends?

what the f***.. they are paying me $185 dollars a week!!! i used to make that much in a day, i was with the company for almost 5 years. but in 08 i didn't work a whole hell of a lot, i was down to one day a week, it said on the form that i had 1.065 hours or something.

i really have no clue how this ei shit works, its frustrating me. :p

Canada's websites are horrible to navigate through.

They base it on an average of hours worked over a certain time period, I'm not sure if that's 6 months, 9 months or a year. You said it yourself for 08 you didn't work a lot so your EI payments are based on that.

My wife for example works fulltime, when she was on mat leave she was on EI. They paid her the max because leading up to that she was a fulltime employee working fulltime hours.

They have to base it off something they don't just pull an arbitrary number out of a hat. In your case you actually would have been better off going on EI when it slowed down leading into 2008. If you did that you still could have worked here (claiming it of course) and there but EI would have supplemented your income when you weren't working. Since you worked a long time period with out many hours you totally screwed yourself.

I've been playing phone tag with all these EI/BCIT people for the last hour just to get some reference number.