In October, 438,000 Canadians received regular Employment Insurance (EI) benefits, down by 15,000 (-3.2%) from September. This was the first month in which the number of regular EI beneficiaries was below the pre-COVID-19 pandemic level of February 2020 (-2.2%; -10,000), outside of the period (March to September) when the Canada Emergency Response Benefit program was in place. On a year-over-year basis, the number of people collecting regular EI benefits fell by 42.4% (-322,000) compared with October 2021.
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