Unlock the Power of Electronic Signature Licitness for Sick Leave Policy in Canada

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hi everyone I hope you still stay healthy and being stay at home for the social distancing under the covert 19th effect lots of people and there's some question about how to apply for the sickness GI especially federal government announced if you are being quarantined because of the covet 19 you can apply for the sickness GI even without a medical certificate so I'm going to put together a short video so you can navigate through the application process to begin with let's go to the Canada does CA website and in there there will be a shortcut to employment insurance so we're going to talk about the sickness benefit and you can spend some time to look at how whether you qualify so the main point is in order to qualify you have at least 600 insurable hours for the past 1 year so that's number one and then of course right now for sickness GI normally you need a medical certificate but the special situation if you're being quarantined and then you don't need that so let's say see what material you need to get prepare before you apply of course you need your employment employer information and you need a social insurance number and then you need to date for your employment and also very special you need your mother's maiden name there will be one question to ask about that and then you need to know your postal code and so you have all this information or actually forgot its banking information it's also important so once you have all the information in front of you and let's go to the application the first question they ask you whether you did try to pry 72 hours before if you do and then you are given a past password for you to react anyway this application in my case I just simply choose a new application so there's two types of employee which can apply for this sickness benefit so you work for someone so as a benefit for employee or you you are self-employed so today I'm just concentrate on just an employee that means you work for somebody also if you're under this type of program you you will have a reverence cooked and so right now I don't have any so what types of benefit I want to talk about just sickness benefit okay so that's an explanation about what sickness benefit so basically you have to be sick and then off work and so you can read through that but in this demo I just keep it all right so now this is the actual application process of course to begin with you need your social insurance number and your day off last name and your first name and it's your last name change at birth so maybe somebody got married and then changed the last name your gender and now the question is your mother's maiden name because they need to worry 5 this is the right information what you had with surface Canada so the same question they asked you before so that's why they need to be confirm again so they give you one more chance to look at if all this is correct then you can continue if it's not it just go back to change it now that's the temporary password I mentioned so you write down this path where just in case is any interrupts in between this application you can still go back within 72 hours to to come back to the same form alright so your language and you can put your email address or for sure you need a phone number and also now for your address all you need to put in a postal code and then they will do a search and pop up with the correct street name theythey know is around I ever knew and wash the number of your house and any other address that you want the input if it's not then we'll just carry on and if it's any of this status and pride to you it put a checkmark otherwise we can just skip all right now this is a bit technical about your tax information while you're collecting yeah I taste you give you 84 but they call it a t4e so just like when you work for someone and then you will receive a t4 so if you have an online account with a service Canada you can select this one otherwise most people would just say send me a paper copy and also not to complicate things and then you can just select basic unless you know for sure like this scenario apply to you and then we will see that basic and suppose then they will actually deduct less tax on your a I direct deposit if you had di before so they will ask you whether you want to use the same account or you can choose use the same account or you can actually input the new account so this is three selection run under here so if you have the banking information you can do it now so but if you say well I may not have it in front of me but very important you can submit to them later through the report or you can send it to a service Canada so but the last one D if you really don't have any bank account yeah I may ask you why what's the reason you don't have it so it's okay you still can receive your AI but they just curious like I think they really want the money will be direct deposit to your account rather than serious send you a check so in this case so I assume is a new application and also I have the banking information with me now it to put in your banking information if you have a checking account just look at your check the chat will actually will tell you what how to fill in all this boxes so if you don't just go back to your bank and then ask your bank to give you a printout which will show the branch or transit number and they know actually they will pay one out for you and then you can you still have all this information so branch a number and we can you use and what's your actual account number very important to put in the right one double check before you actually continue if it's a joint account and then you did the name the other name on the check on the bank account so once you make sure this is correct let's continue that's for your banking information some additional information about your higher education level not really matter if you say well college or university or even others so they just want to know some information and also if you belongs to a union or professional association so say yes and then you have to put the name if it's not and I just keep continue alright so we come down to the employer information so that's the session you need to look at your record of employment or our ohyeah that will stay all the information in there so right now for for example I will work for this cafe and we did number of the former employer we're important to put a number that they can reach your former employer just in case tip some some question so when did you stop and watch the last day so based on the economic situation reason these or you may actually just got layoffs so that's a quick way for you to put in that date you can press this one or you can just type it in so it does another question are you returning to work now when you apply for sickness II I you have to say yes because ing to the employment standard during your sickness your employer cannot let you off so expressly under this situation you better put yes otherwise if you say no you might have to give a reason so do you know the date well you can say no like this is okay because not everyone know when to return for people who have the Pentacles with it certificate they may have an end dates there and then they can put yes so we remember this a yes here and this doesn't matter okay now also for the reason there's only one reason you can't pick because I'm sick and see actually they asked wanting right here so those are the only reason you can't get your sickness I I so please don't say that any other okay once your gross pay so this you can enter by our or you can enter the annual income so it's the one before any deduction so very important is before any deduction so it's the higher number so people might have concerns so if I enter the wrong number yeah I will go by your record of employment so even you enter a different number still the calculation will be patient on the RO Yi and also because you're sick some company may have sickness benefit or no long term something like a disability benefit so are you under those that you are being paid so if yes and then you have confirming that the information about what's your payment if it's no and then for the demo I would just say no we just keep going now what's your job title this one you have to enter for them to search the circuit may come up with a long list but just choose something close enough so you don't have to be exact they just want to see about your job category so this is six one five one three so this is how you actually enter your job title all right so for the record of employment if you already have it in front of you that there are two situation either your employer already sent it to Service Canada electronically or you might have a paper copy that you have descending so that's scenario number one or some people actually since you might actually off work in a hurry and then you don't even get a chance to get that piece of paper so your employer said well they will actually put it in mail and then you will receive it later so that would be the second situation once you get it remember to send it to service Canada otherwise you're AI won't get processed the last two is big complicated so I'm not going to a spring a diss demo okay so do you have any other jobs for the last year so say for example if you switch from job a to job B so you will have to our oh ye so you have to repeat the process and enter or to our OE some people may have a full-time job and a part-time job and then the same case so you still have to enter all the roee within last one year so the demo I'm just saying I only have that one job okay so also ask you about your sickness is do you actually maybe under insurance payment because you have a motor vehicle accident so if it's years and then you have to give some more detail about that insurance payout and also they want to ask you again so you're applying for the sickness benefit so make sure they really the reason that you are sick that you cannot work so there's only reason and not any other weak reason so read through this and then you have to put a check mark so that's basically that's all you need to do at this page and also there's a reminder that you need a medical certificate but not for the quarantine and also if for the last two years you were in go back and then you actually collect a maternity parental GI so if it's an years and then you have to keep the date if it's no and then just keep carry on and so did you actually are you collecting workers compensation like wcp payment so also yes and then you have to keep some more details if it's no and then just keep carry on and also are you going to retire in the next year so if it's yes then you have to actually answer a bunch of questions and no just keep going okay and then for the the last employment like the job you just get stopped it and then so you will attest to the you're your owner or any family relationship if it's yes and then you have to explain a little bit more if it's no just keep going so do you actually a shareholder of a company more than 40% or yourself actually do you own a company or have a partnership business so again if you have those and then you have to put in the information okay now this one is for people who are actually receiving very low income and then you have to pay attention because II I want to find out how to calculate your average income in order to pay you fifty five percent of that average earning so they were based on at least 20 weeks so if you work more than 20 weeks that should be fine but so that means okay I work for more than 20 weeks and then the second question within those weeks is your pay actually is it ups and down or really average if it's average then they can actually take the average value if extra is a factor eight that means they want you to actually you look at it carefully and first of all and that if is in front rate and then you have to add all those together and then give the average earnings if the average is still over 1042 that means you are still collecting the maximum di payment so you don't have to carry on the next step so if it's not that means then you need to enter week by week so all your payment every week and then you enter into the table and they can use the best week to do the calculation so the variable backs weeks and lots of people may actually miss this one then and up they may actually end up have less payment than they should especially if you have income less than 1042 on the average so pay attention on this page but in the demo so it were easier for me to just assume that you have a regular job and then your income is very normal and almost the same every week okay this questions asking about the last two years so might not make sense to you but if you don't understand what they asking just hit the information they will tell you a little bit more so did you receive the BCP are you unable to work due to medical reason do you actually have a group waitress insurance benefit do you actually were in the nail labored this video Australia or local did you attend any specific training or tests and aided by your company or you're in jail and do you actually receive payment from the wage earner production program so this one is talking about if you were working with someone and then they went under bankrupt and then there's another Co wage earner protection program so just yes and no question pretty simple just answer it and carry on so once again are you just working for someone or you're not self-employed so just to ensure that maybe some people actually they're being employed but they still have their own business and being self-employed so they just want to ask one more time and two more questions are you actually in the farming business so if it's not keep going so are you actually in any training or planning to go for any training program so if yes that means you have to give more detail okay so that's the last one so they ask you whether you actually fill out this application or you need somebody help so I guess most people here would be actually would do it themselves so just say no so if yes and then you can put in some more information and that's all the information you need to put in for sickness VI now the next six pages you need to pay attention this is your rights and responsibilities so when you're applying for the sickness CI there's something you need to do one thing is every two weeks and then you have to go online to do a report so those two report those report and then you will tell the eye that you are not able to work because of your sickness so that one question where every particular you have to answer that way and the other and then you can read it through and then see what you don't understand and also there's another thing is about your medical certificate so if your wheedies applied for this sickness e aí because you are sick you have to have that medical certificate and for the pontine and then you need to so once you have to come to the last page you read through all that and then you understand then you have to put a check mahir and continue now because this is a demo i cannot submit this application so what happened is when you saw after you press continue there may be couple more pages but you will receive a a confirmation page from the icing that they already received your information they give you a temporary reference number at that same page you will see some other information number one is very important if you need to send in any document like your our your record of employment or your medical certificate you need to send to that particular address I believe that one is for Alberta that's in Edmonton so very important so you need to do that and also there's a link for you to do your online report mark that down so if for coming weeks like within two to three weeks you will receive the letter from e-i they will give you an access code that's asking for you to do your report it's a four digit number so once you receive it combined with your SI n you were able to use the link to go in to do the report so that is very important the first letter if you don't receive it and then you might want to check with E I why you didn't receive that one normally right now because as so many people apply so your application the process time may take up to six to eight week but the payment will actually pay on the day on one that's to wait to do so that's one week after you off work but that's another because of the covet 19 right now you can call service canada to request to waive that one week waiting time so that means that's alternative you can actually start your ear right away so that's a a phone number for you to call the EEI but the calling podium for sure is lots of people and you might actually have to wait so when you call that number that listed on that piece of paper press zero and then you they will put you in the lineup and then for operator to talk to you so that's something I want to share it looks complicated but I just want to make it easy and still you can do the sickness EW application by yourself while sitting at home so good luck with your application