Canada Emergency Response Benefit Act

Marginal note:Eligibility

• 6 (1) A worker is eligible for an income support payment if

  • (a) the worker, whether employed or self-employed, ceases working for reasons related to COVID-19 for at least 14 consecutive days within the four-week period in respect of which they apply for the payment; and

  • (b) they do not receive, in respect of the consecutive days on which they have ceased working,

    • (i) subject to the regulations, income from employment or self-employment,

    • (ii) benefits, as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Employment Insurance Act, or an employment insurance emergency response benefit referred to in section 153.7 of that Act,

    • (iii) allowances, money or other benefits paid to the worker under a provincial plan because of pregnancy or in respect of the care by the worker of one or more of their new-born children or one or more children placed with them for the purpose of adoption, or

    • (iv) any other income that is prescribed by regulation.

• Marginal note:Exclusion

  (2) An employed worker does not cease work for the purpose of paragraph (1)(a) if they quit their employment voluntarily.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (3) The Minister may, by regulation,

  • (a) exclude a class of income from the application of subparagraph (1)(b)(i); and

  • (b) prescribe any other income for the purposes of subparagraph (1)(b)(iv).