Canada Worker Lockdown Benefit Act — C-11.01 4
Eligibility 4 (1) A person is eligible for a lockdown benefit for any week that falls within the period beginning on October 24, 2021 and ending on May 7, 2022 and within a benefit period if (a) they have a valid Social Insurance Number; (b) they were at least 15 years of age on the first day of the week; (c) they were resident and present in Canada during the week; (d) in the case of an application made in respect of a week beginning in 2021, they had, for 2020 or in the 12-month period preceding the day on which they make the application, a total income of at least $5,000 from the following sources: (i) employment, (ii) self-employment, (iii) benefits to which they were entitled under the Canada Emergency Response Benefit Act or the Canada Recovery Benefits Act that were paid to them, (iv) benefits , as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Employment Insurance Act , paid to them under that Act, (v) allowances, money or other benefits paid to them under a provincial plan because of pregnancy or in respect of the care by them of one or more of their newborn children or one or more children placed with them for the purpose of adoption, and (vi) any other source of income that is prescribed by regulation; (e) in the case of an application made in respect of a week beginning in 2022, they had, for 2020 or for 2021 or in the 12-month period preceding the day on which they make the application, a total income of at least $5,000 from the sources referred to in subparagraphs (d)(i) to (vi); (f) for reasons related to measures imposed by a lockdown order that applies in a lockdown region, (i) they lost their employment in the period that begins on the first day on which the measures referred to in subsection 3 (2) began to apply in the lockdown region and that ends on the expiry of the week and they were unemployed during the week, (ii) they were unable, during the week, to perform the work that they normally performed as a self-employed person immediately before those measures began to apply in the lockdown region, or (iii) if they were employed during the week or they performed self-employment work during the week, they had a reduction of at least 50% in their average weekly employment income or self-employment income for the week relative to (A) in the case of an application made in respect of a week beginning in 2021, their total average weekly employment income and self-employment income for 2020 or in the 12-month period preceding the day on which they make the application, and (B) in the case of an application made in respect of a week beginning in 2022, their total average weekly employment income and self-employment income for 2020 or for 2021 or in the 12-month period preceding the day on which they make the application; (g) no income referred to in any of the following subparagraphs was paid or was payable to them in respect of the week: (i) allowances, money or other benefits paid to them under a provincial plan because of pregnancy or in respect of the care by them of one or more of their newborn children or one or more children placed with them for the purpose of adoption, (ii) a Canada recovery sickness benefit or a Canada recovery caregiving benefit under the Canada Recovery Benefits Act , (iii) benefits , as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Employment Insurance Act , and (iv) any other income that is prescribed by regulation; (h) during the period beginning on the first day on which the measures referred to in subsection 3 (2) began to apply in the lockdown region and ending on the expiry of the week, they have not quit their employment or voluntarily ceased to work, unless it was reasonable to do so, and they have not (i) failed to return to their employment when it was reasonable to do so, if their employer had made a request, (ii) failed to resume self-employment when it was reasonable to do so, or (iii) declined a reasonable offer to work in respect of work that would have started during the week; (i) they were not,