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Awaiting EI Benefits
Definitions
Persons with Disabilities (PWD) designation
Child
An unmarried person under 19 years of age.
[see EA Act, Section 1 or EAPWD Act, Section 1 for legal definition]
Dependant
In relation to another person, means anyone who resides with the person and who is the spouse of the other person, or is a dependent child of the person, or indicates a parental responsibility for the person’s dependent child.
Dependent child
With respect to a parent, means a child, other than a child who is 18 years of age and is a person with disabilities, who resides in the parent’s place of residence for more than 50 per cent of each month and relies on that parent for the necessities of life.
[see EA Act, Section 1 or EAPWD Act, Section 1 for legal definition]
Disability assistance
An amount for shelter and support provided under the Employment and Assistance for Persons with Disabilities Act.
[see EAPWD Act, Section 1 for legal definition]
Employment Insurance (EI)
Family unit
An applicant or a recipient and his or her dependants.
[see EA Act, Section 1 or EAPWD Act, Section 1 for legal definition]
Hardship assistance
An amount for shelter and support that may be provided to clients who are not eligible for income assistance or disability assistance, if the regulations provide for such hardship assistance.
[see EA Act, Section 1 or EAPWD Act, Section 1 for legal definition]
Income assistance
An amount for shelter and support provided under the Employment and Assistance Act.
[see EA Act, Section 1 for legal definition]
Persons with Disabilities (PWD) designation
A designation provided to persons who have reached 18 years of age and have a severe mental (including a mental disorder) or physical impairment that meets all of the following criteria:
- in the opinion of a medical practitioner, the impairment is likely to continue for at least two years
- in the opinion of a prescribed professional, the impairment directly and significantly restricts the person’s ability to perform daily living activities either continuously or periodically for extended periods
- as a result of those restrictions, the person requires an assistive device, the significant help or supervision of another person, or the services of an assistance animal to perform daily living activities.
[see EAPWD Act, Section 2 for legal definition]
Spouse
Two persons, including persons of the same gender, are spouses of each other if they are married to each other, or they reside together and acknowledge they are residing together in a marriage –like relationship, or they have resided together in a marriage-like relationship for at least 3 consecutive months or 9 out of the previous 12 months and the relationship demonstrates both financial and social familial characteristics consistent with a marriage-like relationship.
