Employment Insurance Act

Marginal note:Definition of insured participant

58 In this Part, insured participant means

• (a) an insured person who requests assistance under employment benefits and, when requesting the assistance, is an unemployed person for whom a benefit period is established or whose benefit period has ended within the previous 60 months or an unemployed person who paid, in at least 5 of the last 10 years, employee’s premiums that did not entitle the person to a refund under subsection 96(4); and

• (b) a claimant who requests assistance under employment benefits and, when requesting assistance, is an unemployed person who was in receipt of the employment insurance emergency response benefit within the previous 60 months.