The term "ineligibility" corresponds to the employment insurance concept of "disqualification". It consists of:
- a TEMPORARY DISQUALIFICATION from employment insurance for up to twelve weeks due to a refusal to work or to apply for work. Conditional assistance may be granted as soon as confirmation is received. that an employment insurance claim for benefits has been made. The assistance granted may be reduced for losing, refusing or abandoning an employment without valid reason.
This assistance is reimbursable, up to the amount of employment insurance benefits not paid to the recipient, as soon as either the disqualification has terminated or the recipient has withdrawn from the assistance program. The recovery procedure is the same as for any other recoverable amount (anteriority of the deficit).
However, assistance paid to an applicant who is IRREVOCABLY DISENTITLED to employment insurance benefits is NOT REIMBURSABLE.
Where a person who is eligible for employment insurance benefits (e.g. following a lay-off or the termination of a contract of employment) decides to return to SCHOOL, he or she is generally unavailable to seek work through the HRCC and is consequently ineligible for employment insurance benefits.
If this person makes a request for last resource assistance, the treatment is different depending on her level of study:
- vocational secondary, collegial or university level:
- the assistance is cancelled or refused according to the adult student status;
- general secondary level:
- the assistance is granted taking into account the employment insurance benefits not paid to the recipient.
In one or the other of these situations, if the ongoing training is located within the framework of intervention, the return to school is considered relevant and not considered as if the adult went without revenue. The given assistance is granted taking into account the allowance for employment assistance.