Notice of Appeal – Employment Insurance – Appeal Division

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Fill out this form if you want to appeal an Employment Insurance (EI) decision from the General Division or from the Board of Appeal. We have to receive your form within 30 days from the date you received the decision.
A community organization might be able to help you with your appeal. Find organizations that can help on our website at
www.sst-tss.gc.ca/en/your-appeal/help-other-people-or-organizations.
1. The decision you want to appeal

Please provide at least one of the following:

Tribunal file number at the General Division (begins with GE):
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Include a copy of the Board’s decision with this form.
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2. When you received your decision

The date you received your decision could affect the date your Notice of Appeal is due.

3. Appellant information
You are:
3A. Individual
3B. Employer
Optional: How would you like us to refer to you? We’re asking because we want to communicate with you in a respectful way.
4. Contact information
5. Other parties
If your (former) employer or employee was a party at the Board of Appeal, tell us their name and contact information (if available).
6. Reason(s) for your appeal (your arguments)
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7. Hearing
Your Appeal Division hearing will be different from the one you had at the General Division or Board of Appeal. Generally, the Appeal Division won’t hear from witnesses or accept any other new evidence. Instead, it considers the evidence that the General Division or Board of Appeal had when it made its decision.
What kind of hearing would you prefer?
Connect to the videoconference from a location convenient to you, like your home or your representative’s office. You’ll need a high-speed internet connection.
You’ll travel to a Service Canada Centre near you and attend using their videoconference system. The General Division member will join from a different location.
Call from a location convenient to you, like your home or your representative’s office.
Your hearing will take place at a Service Canada Centre near you. The Appeal Division member will be in the same room as you.
The Appeal Division member will make their decision based on the written arguments that the parties (including you) send in. This means there won’t be an oral hearing and you won’t be able to speak directly to the member.
You can find more information about hearings on our website at https://www.sst-tss.gc.ca/en/your-appeal
8. Language
I want the hearing to be in:
Please write to me in:
9. Accommodation
Tell us if you need an accommodation for your appeal. We want to make sure everyone can participate in appeals on an equal basis. An accommodation is an arrangement to remove a barrier so you can participate fully in an appeal. We’ll accommodate you if you have needs related to a disability or any of the other grounds found in the Canadian Human Rights Act. Learn more at https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/h-6/
To ask for an accommodation for a particular need, contact us by phone, email, fax, or mail. Our contact information is in the “Contact us” section of this form.
You can find our accessibility and accommodation policy on our website at https://www.sst-tss.gc.ca/en/decisions-laws-and-policies/social-security-tribunal-accommodation-and-accessibility-policy
10. Late appeal (if applicable)
We must receive this completed form within 30 days from the date you received your General Division decision or Board of Appeal decision. If we receive it after the 30 days, you must explain why it’s late. The Appeal Division member will then decide whether to give you more time to appeal. The Appeal Division can’t accept an appeal filed more than 1 year from the date you received your decision.
Include supporting documents, if needed.
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11. Questions of constitutional law, including the Charter (required only if you’re appealing a Board of Appeal decision)
The law doesn’t allow the Board of Appeal to consider questions of constitutional law, including ones involving the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Charter). Instead, those questions are decided by the Appeal Division.
If your appeal includes a question of constitutional law, tell us as soon as possible because it will change the process for your appeal. In these cases, the Appeal Division can consider evidence that wasn’t presented to the Board of Appeal. As a result, the appeal process has more steps and can take much longer.
If you’re arguing that one of the following laws violated your Charter rights, give us the specific section(s).
12. Representative information
You don’t need a representative. If you choose to have one, you’re responsible for any costs.
Do you have a representative?
If you have a representative:
We’ll share all the information about your appeal with your representative. Normally, we’ll communicate only with your representative. But we’ll send information about the hearing and the final decision to both you and your representative.
If you have a representative, choose their category and fill out their information below.
(Optional) How would your representative like us to refer to them? We’re asking because we want to communicate with them in a respectful way.
13. Ways to communicate about your appeal
  1. Online document exchange portal: This is the most secure way to send and receive documents about your appeal. Make sure your email on the document exchange portal matches the email on this application form.
  2. Email: We’ll email appeal documents to you or your representative. Sending personal information by email may not be secure. If you choose to use email, you accept the risks involved.
  3. Regular mail: We will send you all documents by regular mail.
13A. Appellant's communication preference
13B. Representative's communication preference
14. Attached documents summary
Add your files by using the “Browse” button or by dragging them into the “Document name” box.
The following file types are permitted: text files (.pdf, .docx, .doc, .rtf, .txt), pictures, audio files, and video files (.JPEG, PNG, 3GP, MOV, MP3, MPEG3, MP4, WMA, WMV, WAV.)
15. Appellant's signature
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Contact us
Phone:
  • 1‑877‑227‑8577 (toll-free in Canada or the United States)
  • 1‑613‑437‑1640 (from outside Canada and the United States – long distance charges may apply)
TTY – if you’re deaf or hard of hearing:
  • 1-866-873-8381 (toll-free in Canada and the United States)
  • 1-613-948-8181 (from outside Canada and the United States – long distance charges may apply)
Our regular business hours are from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday to Friday.