Employment Insurance (EI) sick benefits

To be eligible:

  • you  must pay EI premiums
  • you must meet the medical criteria for being sick (medical certificate required)
  • your normal weekly earnings have been reduced by more than 40%; and
  • you have accumulated at least 600 hours of insurable employment during the qualifying period or, if you are a self-employed fisher, you have sufficient insurable earnings from self-employment in fishing during the qualifying period.

For more information and to apply:  http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/sc/ei/benefits/sickness.shtml

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BC Adult Cochlear Implant Program to Reopen June 1, 2020

Nov 23, 2018 / 3:46pm PST

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COVID-19 immunization information session for the Deaf, Deaf-Blind and Hard of Hearing community

May 29, 2015 / 1:50pm PDT

Please view this video for an American Sign Language (ASL) version of this message.
PHSA’s Provincial Language Service is hosting a live information session on B.C.’s COVID-19 immunization plan for the Deaf, Deaf-Blind and Hard of Hearing Community.

Date: Monday, March 22
Time: 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.