Annex 5: Employment Insurance financial information
Official title: Employment Insurance Monitoring and Assessment Report for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2018 and ending March 31, 2019: Annex 5: Employment Insurance financial information
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List of abbreviations
This is the complete list of abbreviations for the Employment Insurance Monitoring and Assessment Report for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2018 and ending March 31, 2019.
Abbreviations
- ASETS
- Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy
- ATSSC
- Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada
- B/C Ratio
- Benefits-to-Contributions ratio
- B/U Ratio
- Benefits-to-Unemployed ratio
- B/UC Ratio
- Benefits-to-Unemployed Contributor ratio
- BDM
- Benefit Delivery Modernization
- CANSIM
- Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System
- CAWS
- Citizen Access Workstation Services
- CCAJ
- Connecting Canadians with Available Jobs
- CCB
- Canada Child Benefit
- CCDA
- Canadian Council of Directors of Apprenticeship
- CEIC
- Canada Employment Insurance Commission
- COLS
- Community Outreach and Liaison Service
- CSO
- Citizen Service Officer
- CPI
- Consumer Price Index
- CPP
- Canada Pension Plan
- CRA
- Canada Revenue Agency
- CRF
- Consolidated Revenue Fund
- CUSMA
- Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement
- CX
- Client Experience
- EBSMs
- Employment Benefits and Support Measures
- ECC
- Employment Contact Centre
- EF
- Enabling Fund
- EI
- Employment Insurance
- EI PAAR
- Employment Insurance Payment Accuracy Review
- EI PRAR
- Employment Insurance Processing Accuracy Review
- EICS
- Employment Insurance Coverage Survey
- eROE
- Electronic Record of Employment
- ESDC
- Employment and Social Development Canada
- FLMM
- Forum of Labour Market Ministers
- FY
- Fiscal Year
- G7
- Group of Seven
- GDP
- Gross Domestic Product
- HCCS
- Hosted Contact Centre Solution
- HRSDC
- Human Resources and Social Development Canada
- IQF
- Individual Quality Feedback
- IVR
- Interactive Voice Response
- LFS
- Labour Force Survey
- LMDA
- Labour Market Development Agreements
- LMI
- Labour Market Information
- LMP
- Labour Market Partnerships
- MIE
- Maximum Insurable Earnings
- MSCA
- My Service Canada Account
- NAICS
- North American Industry Classification System
- NAFTA
- North American Free Trade Agreement
- NAS
- National Apprenticeship Survey
- NERE
- New-Entrant/Re-Entrant
- NESI
- National Essential Skills Initiative
- NIS
- National Investigative Services
- NOS
- National Occupational Standards
- NQCP
- National Quality and Coaching Program for Call Centres
- OAS
- Old Age Security
- OECD
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
- PPEs
- Clients who are Premiums Paid Eligible
- P/Ts
- Provinces and Territories
- PPTS
- Percentage points
- PRP
- Premium Reduction Program
- QPIP
- Quebec Parental Insurance Plan
- RAIS
- Registered Apprenticeship Information System
- ROE
- Record of Employment
- RSOS
- Red Seal Occupational Standards
- SA
- Social Assistance
- SCC
- Service Canada Centres
- SDP
- Service Delivery Partner
- SEPH
- Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours
- SIN
- Social Insurance Number
- SIR
- Social Insurance Registry
- SME
- Small and medium sized enterprises
- SO
- Scheduled Outreach
- SST
- Social Security Tribunal
- STDP
- Short-term disability plan
- SUB
- Supplemental Unemployment Benefit
- UV
- Unemployed-to-job-vacancy ratio
- VBW
- Variable Best Weeks
- VER
- Variable Entrance Requirement
- WWC
- Working While on Claim
Annex 5.1 – Employment Insurance operating account ($ million)
Statement of operations and accumulated surplus (deficit) for the year ended March 31Footnote 1
Note: Data may not add up to the total due to rounding.
Source: Government of Canada, Public Accounts of Canada 2019, Volume I: Summary Report and Consolidated Financial Statements (Ottawa: Receiver General for Canada, 2019) and past year versions of the Public Accounts report.
| Revenues and funding | FY1617 | FY1718 | FY1819 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Premiums | 22,537.4 | 21,533.0 | 22,698.4 |
| Interest2 | 14.7 | 16.6r | 21.2 |
| Penalties | 51.3 | 64.4r | 62.0 |
| Total revenues and funding | 22,603.3 | 21,614.0 | 22,781.6 |
- r Revised.
- 2 This interest includes interest accrued on overdue accounts receivable.
| Expenditures3: Part I Employment Insurance benefits | FY1617 | FY1718 | FY1819 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regular benefits | 12,907.2 | 11,751.0 | 10,639.3 |
| Fishing benefits | 300.6 | 326.9 | 332.8 |
| Work-Sharing benefits | 47.5 | 12.9 | 5.8 |
| Special benefits for insured employees | 5,529.2 | 5,755.2 | 5,878.6 |
| Parental benefits4 | 2,721.3 | 2,805.0 | 2,771.9 |
| Sickness benefits | 1,560.3 | 1,681.6 | 1,781.3 |
| Maternity benefits | 1,172.0 | 1,175.3 | 1,191.6 |
| Other special benefits5 | 75.5 | 93.3 | 133.8 |
| Special benefits for self-employed | 9.8 | 9.7 | 9.9 |
| Total income benefits | 18,794.3 | 17,855.6 | 16,866.3 |
| Less: Benefit repayments6 | (263.1) | (308.6) | (286.2) |
| Total Part-I: Employment Insurance benefits | 18,531.2 | 17,547.1 | 16,580.0 |
- 3 Expenditures reported in Chapter II of this report are based on administrative data and may differ from the ones reported in the financial statements of the Employment Insurance Operating Account that are included in the Public Accounts of Canada, due to methodological differences.
- 4 Include parental benefits paid to biological parents and adoptive parents.
- 5 Include compassionate care benefits (for FY1617, FY1718 and FY1819), benefits for parents of critically ill children (for FY1617 and FY1718) and family caregiver benefits (for FY1718 and FY1819).
- 6 These repayments correspond to benefit repayments from higher income claimants.
| Expenditures: Part-II Employment benefits and support measures | FY1617 | FY1718 | FY1819 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employment benefits7 | 2,067.4 | 2,048.6 | 2,171.0 |
| Support measures | 112.5 | 119.2 | 137.0 |
| Labour market partnerships | 106.7 | 112.6 | 133.3 |
| Research and innovation | 5.8 | 6.6 | 3.7 |
| Total Part-II: Employment benefits and support measures | 2,179.9 | 2,167.8 | 2,307.9 |
- 7 These benefits correspond to transfer payments to provinces and territories related to labour market development agreements, net of previous fiscal years’ over-contribution.
| Expenditures: Administration costs | FY1617 | FY1718 | FY1819 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employment and Social Development Canada – Personnel related-costs | 823.0 | 985.1 | 950.3 |
| Employment and Social Development Canada – Non-personnel related costs | 447.8 | 384.0 | 379.3 |
| Canada Revenue Agency – Collection of premiums and rulings | 230.2 | 214.5 | 212.8 |
| Treasury Board Secretariat – Health Insurance Plan and Public Service Insurance | 79.0 | 92.6 | 83.3 |
| Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada – Social Security Tribunal | 9.2 | 14.2 | 18.2 |
| Courts Administration Services | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Less: Recovery of costs from the Canada Pension Plan for maintaining the social insurance number registry | (5.6) | (5.3) | (4.1) |
| Total administration costs: Related parties | 1,584.6 | 1,686.2 | 1,640.7 |
| Total administration costs: External parties (administration costs incurred by provinces and territories under the LMDA) | 191.2 | 191.6 | 189.7 |
| Total administration costs | 1,775.9 | 1,877.8 | 1,830.4 |
| Expenditures | FY1617 | FY1718 | FY1819 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benefits and support measures | 20,711.1 | 19,714.9 | 18,887.9 |
| Administration costs | 1,775.9 | 1,877.8 | 1,830.4 |
| Bad debts | 31.9 | 69.3 | 99.0 |
| Total expenditures | 22,518.9 | 21,662.0 | 20,817.4 |
| Net surplus for the year | 84.4 | (48.0) | 1,964.3 |
| Accumulated surplus (deficit) at beginning of year | 2,914.9 | 2,999.4 | 2,951.4 |
| Accumulated surplus (deficit) at end of year | 2,999.4 | 2,951.4 | 4,915.6 |