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In June, 460,040 Canadians received regular Employment Insurance benefits, up 0.5% from May. Regular benefit payments totalled $732.5 million in June.
Compared with June 2007, the number of Canadians receiving regular benefits declined 3.0%, with the same decrease posted for both men and women.
The number of regular beneficiaries fell in most census metropolitan areas (CMAs) compared with June 2007. The largest declines were in Windsor (-41.0%) and Saskatoon (-30.4%). Among those CMAs where the number of regular beneficiaries went up, Oshawa (+32.0%) and Kitchener (+13.4%) had the largest year-over-year increases.
Note: Employment Insurance Statistics Program data are produced from an administrative data source and may, from time to time, be affected by changes to the Employment Insurance Act or administrative procedures. The number of beneficiaries is a measure of all persons who received Employment Insurance benefits from the 15th to the 21st of June. This coincides with the reference week of the Labour Force Survey for the month of June. The regular benefit payments figure measures the total of all monies paid to individuals during the month.
Available on CANSIM: tables 276-0001 to 276-0006, 276-0009, 276-0011, 276-0015 and 276-0016.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2604.
Data on Employment Insurance for July will be released on September 23.
For more information, or to order data, contact Client Services (toll-free 1-866-873-8788; 613-951-4090; labour@statcan.gc.ca). To enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Gilles Groleau (613-951-4091), Labour Statistics Division.
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