Section 23 of the Employment Insurance Act provides for parental benefits, which are available in order to allow a claimant to remain at home to care for one or more newborn or adopted children.
Subsection 23(1) Employment Insurance Act
In order to receive parental benefits, the child must be the natural child of the claimant or must be placed with the claimant for adoption pursuant to the law of the province in which the claimant resides.
Subsection 23(1) Employment Insurance Act
Parental benefits are only available to a major attachment claimant. Under the Employment Insurance Act, a major attachment claimant is a claimant who has six-hundred (600) or more hours of insurable employment in their qualifying period.
Subsections 6(1)and
23(1) Employment Insurance Act
Parental benefits are payable beginning with the week in which the child or children are born or actually placed with the claimant for the purpose of adoption and ending fifty-two weeks later. If a child is hospitalized during that period, the period is extended by the number of weeks during which the child is hospitalized.
Subsections 23(2) and (3) Employment Insurance Act
Weeks of benefits which are payable under these legislative provisions may be divided between the parents of the child or children.
Subsection 23(4) Employment Insurance Act
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2009-04-29