{"id":72450,"date":"2016-03-15T07:09:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T11:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=72450"},"modified":"2016-03-15T07:09:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T11:09:06","slug":"jobless-canadians-wait-month-find-eligible-ei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/03\/15\/jobless-canadians-wait-month-find-eligible-ei\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobless Canadians wait more than a month to find out if eligible for EI"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9680\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9680\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/canada-jobs-unemployment.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9680\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9680\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/canada-jobs-unemployment.jpg\" alt=\"(ShutterStock image)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/canada-jobs-unemployment.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/canada-jobs-unemployment-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(ShutterStock image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2013 Newly released figures show jobless Canadians are waiting days for answers to their employment insurance questions, and a month or more to find out if they are going to receive benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The figures tabled in Parliament last week show 297,586 employment insurance applicants waited more than 28 days for a decision on their files.<\/p>\n<p>The average wait time was 39 days nationwide and in Alberta, which has been hard hit by the slumping price of oil.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers also show that Canadians dialling into a federal call centre with employment insurance questions heard an automated high volume message almost 7.4 million times between April 2015 and January of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, processing times and client services topped the categories for complaints lodged with the government.<\/p>\n<p>The figures were tabled in response to a written question from NDP employment critic Niki Ashton.<\/p>\n<p>Labour Minister MaryAnn Mihychuk says the government knows it has work to do on the employment insurance system and will have more to say on its plan soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2013 Newly released figures show jobless Canadians are waiting days for answers to their employment insurance questions, and a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":9680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[9636],"class_list":["post-72450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-cp","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}