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Minister of Employment and Social Development v The Estate of LB - 2024 SST 269 - 2024-03-18
Old Age Security (OAS) and Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedSummary: The Deceased suffered a series of serious health setbacks in middle age. In 2006, when he was only 57 years old, he moved to X, a long-term care facility. He remained there until he passed away on Sep...
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BC v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2020 SST 1114 - 2020-07-03
Employment Insurance (EI) - General Division - Appeal allowed in partSummary: EI – Earnings and Allocation – Date of transaction to start allocation –
The Claimant retired in 2006 and started receiving a pension and insurance coverage from his former employer. In May 2015, the...
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BP v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2024 SST 250 - 2024-03-08
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAgreement/settlement
Appeal Division - Error of law - Ignoring evidence
EI - Denied for misconduct
Withdrawal
Summary: The Claimant was fired from his job because he didn’t give enough notice that he would miss work for medical reasons. The Canada Employment Insurance Commission (the Commission) concluded that the Cla...
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KH v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2022 SST 1010 - 2022-10-13
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedProcedural fairness - Missed hearing
Summary: The Commission decided that the Claimant had filed her biweekly claim reports late and refused the Claimant’s request to backdate them as if they were filed on time. The Claimant appealed that decisio...
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RA v Minister of Employment and Social Development - 2021 SST 310 - 2021-06-28
Canada Pension Plan (CPP) disability - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAppeal Division - Error of law - Inadequate reasons
Summary: CPP – disability – internally inconsistent reasons on functional limitations – child rearing during COVID-19 lockdown as work capacity – ignoring relevant evidence contradicting conclusion
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The Estate of FF v Minister of Employment and Social Development - 2021 SST 255 - 2021-06-02
Old Age Security (OAS) and Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) - Appeal Division - Application for leave to appeal refusedProcedural fairness - Accommodation or interpreter issues
Summary: The Estate of FF v Minister of Employment and Social Development, AD-21-158 (English Only)
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AI v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2020 SST 971 - 2020-11-10
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAppeal Division - Error of law - Inadequate reasons
Summary: EI – Earnings and Allocation – Claimant paid co-worker to replace her –
The Claimant applied for EI sickness benefits and told the Commission she had worked during her benefit period. She described he...
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GO v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2020 SST 969 - 2020-11-09
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal dismissedAppeal Division - Error of fact - No error
Summary: Ms. Oh applied for Employment Insurance benefits in April 2019. Although she tried to log into her Service Canada account several times, technical problems prevented her from submitting her online app...
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MM v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2020 SST 20 - 2020-01-09
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAppeal Division - Error of fact - Perverse or capricious
Summary: EI – The Employment Insurance Act (Act) lists some circumstances where it may be acceptable under the law to quit a job if there is no other reasonable option (just cause). A decision maker should con...
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Canada Employment Insurance Commission v VA - 2020 SST 400 - 2020-05-11
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal dismissedAppeal Division - Error of fact - No error
Summary: EI – After the bankruptcy of an employer, the General Division (GD) determined that payment from a “Hardship Fund” should not be considered earnings to be allocated under the Employment Insurance Act....
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Canada Employment Insurance Commission v. T. B. - 2019 SST 823 - 2019-10-25
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal dismissedAppeal Division - Error of fact - No error
Summary: EI – The Employment Insurance Act (EI Act) provides that once a claimant chooses an option (extended or standard) for parental benefits and starts to receive payments based on that option, this choice...
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L. N. v. Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2019 SST 780 - 2019-08-19
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal dismissedAppeal Division - Error of law - Inadequate reasons
Summary: EI – The Appeal Division did not accept that the Claimant’s unpaid practicum is employment for the purpose of section 29(c)(vi) of the Employment Insurance Act (EI Act) because it is not the interpret...
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P. R. v. Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2019 SST 704 - 2019-08-07
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAppeal Division - Error of fact - Perverse or capricious
Summary: EI – The General Division refused the Claimant’s request that his legal fees be pro-rated between the two parts of his settlement that included general damages and pay in lieu of notice – This adjustm...
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D. D. et al. v. Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2019 SST 619 - 2019-06-27
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAppeal Division - Error of fact - Perverse or capricious
Summary: EI – The General Division (GD) was incorrect in finding that there was nothing in the Central terms indicating that the lump sum payment (or a portion of it) was a retroactive increase in wages – The ...
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WC v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2022 SST 397 - 2022-05-16
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedSummary: The Claimant is appealing the General Division (GD) decision. The GD summarily dismissed the Claimant’s appeal because it found that he did not have a reasonable chance of success. It found that the C...
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MT v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2023 SST 1917 - 2023-11-14
Employment Insurance (EI) - General Division - Appeal dismissedEI - Benefit period - Backdating (antedating) initial claim
Summary: The Appellant’s last day of work was March 10, 2023 and he completed his online application for regular Employment Insurance benefits on March 11, 2023. His benefit period was established starting Mar...
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TG et al. v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2024 SST 32 - 2024-01-10
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedSummary: The Employment Insurance Act says that claimants who are no longer working “because of a work stoppage attributable to a labour dispute” are not entitled to Employment Insurance benefits. This appeal ...
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NB v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2023 SST 51 - 2023-01-20
Employment Insurance (EI) - General Division - Appeal allowed in partEI - Denied for misconduct - Non-compliance to vaccination policy
Summary: The Claimant worked for the Canada Revenue Agency (employer). In December 2021, her employer put her on administrative leave without pay because she didn’t follow its mandatory COVID-19 vaccination po...
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LC v Minister of Employment and Social Development - 2024 SST 114 - 2024-02-07
Other Canada Pension Plan (CPP) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAppeal Division - De Novo - Allowed
CPP - Survivor's pension - Common law relationship
Summary: The Claimant was in a relationship with the contributor from 1984 to 1992. In 1992, the contributor started living at a separate address nearby. He was an engineer who did shift work. He was an alcoho...
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IA v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2024 SST 107 - 2024-02-05
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAgreement/settlement
Appeal Division - Error of law - Misinterpreting or not following legislation
EI - Qualifying for benefits - Hours of Insurable Employment
Summary: The Appellant applied for Employment Insurance maternity and parental benefits on September 24, 2022. The Canada Employment Insurance Commission (the Commission) decided that the Appellant did not hav...
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AE v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2024 SST 112 - 2024-02-07
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAppeal Division - Error of law - Misinterpreting or not following case law
Appeal Division - Remedy
EI - Availability for work - While in school/training
Summary: The Canada Employment Insurance Commission (the Commission) decided that the Appellant was disentitled from receiving Employment Insurance regular benefits from September 7, 2022 to December 2, 2022, ...
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TC v Minister of Employment and Social Development - 2023 SST 1817 - 2023-12-19
Canada Pension Plan (CPP) disability - Appeal Division - Appeal dismissedAppeal Division - De Novo - Dismissed
CPP - Disability - Severe - Efforts to work - Substantially gainful
CPP - Disability - Severe - Work capacity
Summary: In February 2006, the Appellant applied for a Canada Pension Plan disability pension, claiming that she was no longer capable of work. The Minister of Employment and Social Development (the Minister) ...
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Canada Employment Insurance Commission v JP - 2023 SST 1460 - 2023-11-07
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowed in partAppeal Division - Error of fact - Without regard to the evidence
Appeal Division - Remedy
EI - Qualifying for benefits - Extension of qualifying period
EI - Qualifying for benefits - Hours of Insurable Employment
Summary: The Claimant applied for Employment Insurance sickness benefits on August 4, 2022. The Canada Employment Insurance Commission (the Commission) established the Claimant’s Employment Insurance claim fro...
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SB v Minister of Employment and Social Development - 2023 SST 1954 - 2023-11-29
Canada Pension Plan (CPP) disability - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAppeal Division - De Novo
Summary: In December 2022, the law about Canada Pension Plan appeals at the Tribunal changed. The new law requires that if the Appeal Division grants permission to appeal, the Appeal Division must hear and det...
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Canada Employment Insurance Commission v KM - 2020 SST 151 - 2020-02-18
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedSummary: EI – The Claimant left her job when the employer gave her a new work schedule. The Commission determined that the Claimant did not have just cause for leaving her job and disqualified her from receivi...