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The following eligibility criteria for independent workers and professionals for Employment Insurance (EI) benefits are based on insurable employment.
You may be eligible for EI benefits if:
you have accumulated enough insurable hours from insured employment to qualify for EI benefits, even if you have self-employment earnings;
you meet the entitlement criteria for the type of EI benefits you applied to receive;
you demonstrate that you are unemployed through no fault of your own for each week you claim EI benefits;
you are actively looking for another job and are ready, willing, and capable of working each day (in the case of EI regular benefits ); and
your self-employment activities while you are receiving EI benefits are determined to be minor in extent.
You are not entitled to EI benefits if you are working a full work week. If your main source of income is from operating a business on your own account, in partnership, or as a co-adventurer, and your self-employment activities are not considered to be minor in extent, you are considered to be working a full work week and therefore you are not unemployed.
You are also considered to be working a full work week when you work in employment where you control your own hours of work. You are therefore not unemployed and you cannot receive EI benefits.
