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Income and Employment Supports Regulations

Published Date: August 01, 2011
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Income Support, Training and Health Benefits Regulation

Schedule 4 Supplementary Income Support

Section 4 Earnings replacement

  1. An earnings replacement allowance may be provided to an expected to work or working household unit if every adult member of the household unit designated as expected to work or working is, in the opinion of the Director, temporarily unavailable to work because of

    1. a temporary health problem of 6 months’ duration or less,

    2. being the primary caretaker of a child 12 months old or younger, or

    3. any other circumstances that, in the opinion of the Director, make the member temporarily unavailable for work.

  2. Subsection (1) does not apply to a household unit living in an institution referred to in section 3(2)(b)(i) of this Schedule.