A separate application must be made to Human Resources Development Canada for parental leave and either the natural mother or father or adoptive mother or father can collect two weeks of benefits or they can share the benefit between them. . A maximum of ten weeks of benefit is paid by EI. . Academic employees will continue to receive the SUB top-up as long as EI continues to pay benefits, which is normally ten weeks unless unusual circumstances occur. . This maximum may be extended to fifteen weeks when the child is more than six months old and suffers from a physical, psychological, or emotional condition that requires longer parental care. . Benefits may be received by one parent or split between the two if both parents are eligible. .
Benefits are payable any time during the year after the child returns home. .
Benefits are sixty percent of the average of the last twenty weeks of your weekly insurable earnings. There is a maximum to these benefits. Contact Human Resources Development Canada to find out what you are entitled to. . Employees may discontinue their long-term disability coverage, but if they do so and disability occurs, no benefits are payable. No deductions will be made.