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By Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor | < 1 Minutes Read April 15, 2010

EI will rise by a lot!

arrow-upSeveral media outlets have reported that Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) announced a sharp rise in employment insurance rate. This stems from the recently tabled report: Projecting Employment Insurance Premium Revenues and Expenses made available on April 15, 2010.

The PBO projects that EI premium rates for employees will increase by the maximum allowable amount of $0.15 per year to $2.33 (per $100 of insurable earnings) by 2014 from $1.73 in 2010. This $0.60 increase in the premium rate is projected to raise the annual contribution per worker by $535, on average ($223 borne by the employee and $312 borne by the employer).

The combination of the increased premiums, more workers and higher wages means that Ottawa’s EI revenues would grow from $16.2 billion last year to $27.1 billion by 2014. Despite this increase, the budget officer estimates that even then the fund would still carry a $700-million deficit by 2014 after hitting a peak shortfall of $10.7 billion in 2011.

Currently, the government has frozen contribution premiums until 2011 as part of the two-year stimulus package dealing with the recession.

The report is quite informative and should be consulted.

Note: The Parliament of Canada Act mandates the Parliamentary Budget Officer to provide independent analysis to the Senate and House of Commons on the state of the nation’s finances, government estimates and trends in the national economy.

Yosie Saint-Cyr
Human Resources and Compliance Managing Editor

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Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B., is a trained lawyer called to the Quebec bar in 1988 and is still a member in good standing. She practiced business, employment and labour law until 1999. For over 20 years, Yosie has been the Managing Editor at First Reference. She manages the PolicyPro Human Resources and Internal Controls editions, The Human Resources Advisor editions, PaySource and the HRinfodesk news service as well as the blogs. Marie-Yosie (a.k.a. Yosie) is a recognized and respected author, with an extensive background in human resources, employment and labour across the country.
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Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B., is a trained lawyer called to the Quebec bar in 1988 and is still a member in good standing. She practiced business, employment and labour law until 1999. For over 20 years, Yosie has been the Managing Editor at First Reference. She manages the PolicyPro Human Resources and Internal Controls editions, The Human Resources Advisor editions, PaySource and the HRinfodesk news service as well as the blogs. Marie-Yosie (a.k.a. Yosie) is a recognized and respected author, with an extensive background in human resources, employment and labour across the country.

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  1. GR says

    April 16, 2010 at 8:13 am

    I would love to hear more. My understanding was that CPP was in the hole, gov’t taking from EI to supplement the baby boomers and that EI has a huge surplus do to ee’s not able to collect due to new rules-too tough.

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