The Daily Thursday, December 16, 2021
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Changes to the EI program, including an increase in the number of insured hours required to qualify for benefits and a return to using regional unemployment rates to calculate the number of benefit weeks, were introduced on September 26, 2021.
Fewer Canadians collect regular EI benefits in October
The number of Canadians receiving regular EI benefits dropped by 540,000 (-42.1%) in October to 742,000.
This decline coincided with a large number of Canadians who started receiving benefits when the EI program resumed in October 2020, reaching the maximum of 50 weeks of regular benefits before the October 2021 reference week. Of those who received regular benefits in September, 585,000 were not recipients in October, including 315,000 (53.9%) who had been continuously receiving regular EI benefits or the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) for 12 months or more (not seasonally adjusted).
The October decline in regular EI recipients was also influenced by fewer new entrants to the program than in previous months. The number of new regular EI recipients—that is, those who were not recipients of regular EI benefits or CERB in the previous month—was 105,000 in October 2021, compared with 227,000 new entrants in October 2020 (not seasonally adjusted).
According to the Labour Force Survey (LFS), employment held steady in October, while unemployment fell to 1.4 million, including 1.2 million Canadians who were looking for work and 100,000 who had a connection to a job, either because they were on temporary layoff or had arrangements to begin a new job in the near future.The Daily
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