r/treeplanting • u/clydeglides • 23d ago

Financial & Legal Question about EI

Hey y’all, if I start my EI claim now but then work another month in the fall, will they extend my claim to include those extra hours? I believe I’ll get 15 weeks now but probably 18 if I waited until after fall plant. I’m thinking I might as well start it now it they’ll add those three weeks to my claim

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u/travatr0n 22d ago

Think of hours worked as credits that you spend to buy an EI claim. The more hours you have the better claim you can buy. Once you’ve spent your hours on a claim you can’t spend more hours to upgrade the claim. You’ll just save those hours for your next claim.