Employment Insurance Act

Marginal note:Payment

• 153.7 (1) An employment insurance emergency response benefit is payable to a claimant who makes a claim under section 153.8 and who is eligible for the benefit.

• Marginal note:Payments in advance

  (1.1) The Commission may pay the employment insurance emergency response benefit in advance of the customary time for paying it.

• Marginal note:Other benefits

  (2) A claimant who receives, under a provincial Act or any other provincial mechanism, a sum of money or financial aid of any type and in any form, for reasons related to COVID-19, remains eligible to receive the employment insurance emergency response benefit.

• Marginal note:Financial aid under section 63

  (3) A claimant who receives financial aid as a result of entering into an agreement referred to in section 63 remains eligible to receive the employment insurance emergency response benefit.