The Number of Canadians Receiving Employment Insurance on the Rise

The number of Canadians receiving regular Employment Insurance benefits rose by 3.9% or 13,100 between September 2007 and September 2008. The number of men receiving benefits increased 5.7% while the number of women receiving benefits rose 1.7%.

In September 2008, 480,370 Canadians received regular Employment Insurance (EI) benefits, down 5,080 or 1.0% from August 2008, after seasonal adjustment. During the month, regular benefit payments increased 5.5% to $772.4 million.

Provincially, Ontario (+14.0%) and British Columbia (+11.2%) had the largest year-over-year increases in regular EI beneficiaries. These advances were partly offset by declines in some other regions.

In the census metropolitan areas, the largest year-over-year increases in the number of regular beneficiaries occurred in Oshawa (+96.4%) and Windsor (+30.4%). Among those census metropolitan areas where the number of regular beneficiaries went down, Saskatoon (-19.8%) and Thunder Bay (-19.7%) had the largest year-over-year decreases.

Source: Statistics Canada

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