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GZ v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2024 SST 427 - 2024-04-24
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedSummary: The Claimant’s son was born in December 2022. The Claimant applied for parental benefits on January 14, 2023, but returned to work on January 23, 2023. He notified the Canada Employment Insurance Comm...
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TC v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2024 SST 118 - 2024-02-08
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedEI - Benefit period
EI - Benefit period - Backdating (antedating) initial claim
Procedural fairness
Procedural fairness - Right to know the case
Summary: The Appellant made a claim for Employment Insurance regular benefits on September 29, 2022, but asked that his claim be treated as though it was made on August 21, 2022.
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Canada Employment Insurance Commission v JA - 2024 SST 382 - 2024-04-17
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedSummary: The Claimant was working for a company as a driver until he lost his job. When he stopped working, he applied for Employment Insurance benefits.
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Minister of Employment and Social Development v RW - 2020 SST 147 - 2020-02-17
Other Canada Pension Plan (CPP) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAppeal Division - Error of fact
Charter appeals - Merits
CPP - Survivor's pension
Procedural fairness
Summary: CPP – This Charter case questions whether the Other Canada Pension Plan (CPP) discriminates against twice-widowed women by preventing an accumulation of survivor benefits. The Claimant’s second husban...
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C. R. v. Minister of Employment and Social Development - 2019 SST 677 - 2019-07-22
Other Canada Pension Plan (CPP) - Appeal Division - Appeal dismissedAppeal Division - Error of law - Inadequate reasons
Charter appeals - Merits
CPP - Credit split
Summary: CPP – The General Division made an error in law when it decided that there was insufficient evidence for the Claimant’s constitutional claims to be adjudicated – The Appeal Division held that when all...
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AS v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2024 SST 148 - 2024-02-16
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal dismissedAppeal Division - Error of law - Misinterpreting or not following case law
EI - Availability for work - While in school/training
Summary: The Claimant is a high school student and he applied for Employment Insurance benefits when he stopped working. The Canada Employment Insurance Commission (the Commission) retroactively decided that h...
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Canada Employment Insurance Commission v YG - 2024 SST 45 - 2024-01-12
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedEI - Qualifying for benefits
Procedural fairness
Procedural fairness - Right to present your case
Summary: The Claimant made a claim for Employment Insurance benefits when his contract as a research scientist ended in early 2022. The Canada Employment Insurance Commission (the Commission) approved his clai...
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Canada Employment Insurance Commission v AT - 2023 SST 1323 - 2023-10-03
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedEI - Qualifying for benefits - Self-employed
Jurisdiction
Summary: The Respondent had Employment Insurance coverage through a self-employment agreement. She made a claim for maternity benefits when she needed them. The Canada Employment Insurance Commission (the Comm...
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OK v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2024 SST 111 - 2024-02-06
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAppeal Division - Error of law
Appeal Division - Error of law - Misinterpreting or not following case law
EI - Sickness benefits - Otherwise available
Summary: The Claimant is a foreign student who held a study permit that allowed him to work in Canada with some restrictions. He was going to school as well as working part time when he became ill in November ...
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PG v Minister of Employment and Social Development and The Estate of SF - 2022 SST 719 - 2022-07-11
Old Age Security (OAS) and Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) - General Division - Appeal dismissedOAS - Marital status
OAS - Marital status - Common-law relationship
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TH v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2024 SST 345 - 2024-04-08
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedSummary: The Claimant was training to be a letter carrier with CPC. She met with her supervisor and found out her job performance was unsatisfactory. She resigned from her letter carrier position soon after. S...
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MM v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2024 SST 153 - 2024-02-19
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowed in partAgreement/settlement
Appeal Division - Error of law - Misinterpreting or not following case law
EI - Availability for work - While in school/training
Procedural fairness - Right to present your case
Summary: The Claimant made a claim for Employment Insurance benefits when she was a full-time student. The Canada Employment Insurance Commission (the Commission) denied her claim because she hadn’t shown she ...
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SR v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2024 SST 79 - 2024-01-26
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAgreement/settlement
Appeal Division - Error of law - Misinterpreting or not following legislation
Late request for reconsideration
Summary: The Canada Employment Insurance Commission (the Commission) accepted the Claimant’s claim for Employment Insurance benefits and started to pay him benefits. Later, the Commission received new informat...
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PG v Minister of Employment and Social Development and WV - 2024 SST 435 - 2024-04-26
Other Canada Pension Plan (CPP) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAppeal Division - De Novo - Allowed
CPP - Survivor's pension - Common law relationship
Summary: This case involves two competing claims for a Canada Pension Plan survivor’s pension.
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AM v Canada Employment Insurance Commission and X - 2024 SST 275 - 2024-03-19
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedSummary: The Claimant applied for Employment Insurance regular benefits when she stopped working.
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BP v Minister of Employment and Social Development - 2024 SST 355 - 2024-03-26
Other Canada Pension Plan (CPP) - General Division - Appeal dismissedSummary: The Appellant met NL in November 2006. At the time, she was living in California. NL was living in Surrey, BC. They were both divorced from their previous spouses. They began a relationship. The Appel...
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AP v Minister of Employment and Social Development - 2024 SST 333 - 2024-04-04
Old Age Security (OAS) and Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) - Appeal Division - Appeal dismissedSummary: The Claimant applied for an Old Age Security pension in July 2021. The Minister of Employment and Social Development (the Minister) denied the application. The Minister found that the Claimant had onl...
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Canada Employment Insurance Commission v JN - 2024 SST 384 - 2024-04-18
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedSummary: The Claimant made a claim for Employment Insurance benefits. The Canada Employment Insurance Commission (the Commission) paid him benefits. Later on, the Commission went back and investigated his clai...
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CL v Minister of Employment and Social Development - 2024 SST 390 - 2024-04-15
Old Age Security (OAS) and Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) - General Division - Appeal dismissedSummary: The Appellant turned 65 in August 2015. He began receiving an Old Age Security pension and the Guaranteed Income Supplement. He was paid at the rate for a single person because he had declared in his ...
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DU v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2024 SST 311 - 2024-03-25
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedSummary: The Canada Employment Insurance Commission (the Commission) decided that the Claimant wasn’t entitled to Employment Insurance regular benefits when he was outside of Canada. The Claimant appealed the ...
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BA v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2023 SST 1799 - 2023-12-14
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowed in partSummary: The Appellant is appealing the General Division decision. The General Division found that the Canada Employment Insurance Commission (the Commission) proved that the Claimant had been suspended and th...
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JS v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2024 SST 117 - 2024-02-08
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedSummary: The Claimant lost his job on February 28, 2023. He tried to find another job over the next few months. Eventually, his mental health deteriorated, and he sought professional help. The Claimant was abl...
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RP v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2023 SST 304 - 2023-03-16
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Application for leave to appeal refusedAppeal Division - Leave to appeal - No grounds of appeal
Charter appeals
Charter appeals - Procedural requirements
EI - Qualifying for benefits - Hours of Insurable Employment
Summary: The Applicant is an American citizen who worked in Canada from September 3, 2019 to May 12, 2020. He applied for Employment Insurance benefits on September 7, 2021 – after his work permit had expired ...
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TN v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2023 SST 727 - 2023-06-06
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowedAppeal Division - Remedy - Decide appeal or return to General Division
Charter appeals - Procedural requirements
EI - Denied for misconduct - Non-compliance to vaccination policy
Procedural fairness - Member bias or role
Summary: The Appellant was suspended from his job because he did not comply with the employer’s COVID-19 vaccination policy. The employer did not grant him an exemption. The Appellant then applied for Employme...
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DY v Canada Employment Insurance Commission - 2024 SST 147 - 2024-02-16
Employment Insurance (EI) - Appeal Division - Appeal allowed in partAgreement/settlement
Late request for reconsideration
Procedural fairness - Right to present your case
Summary: The Appellant made a claim for Employment Insurance benefits. The Canada Employment Insurance Commission (the Commission) found that he voluntarily left his employment without just cause. It denied hi...