{"id":46574,"date":"2015-06-16T21:46:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T01:46:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:36:23","slug":"will-disqualification-be-counted-against-me-future-ei-claims","status":"publish","type":"publications-page","link":"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications-page\/will-disqualification-be-counted-against-me-future-ei-claims","title":{"rendered":"What happens if I apply for EI again after I&#8217;m disqualified?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might not be able to get as many weeks of regular EI benefits when you make a new claim. Special benefits are not affected.<\/p>\n<p>Check with Service Canada to see if you finished all of the weeks that you were disqualified for in your last claim. If not, you may have to finish those weeks before you can start getting EI regular benefits.<\/p>\n<p>If you did not finish all the weeks that you were disqualified for, they will apply to a new EI claim if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you have less than 700 insurable hours since your last EI claim, and<\/li>\n<li>you were disqualified for a reason that happened in the last 2 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"left-line\">\n<h3>Example: If you did not finish the weeks you were disqualified for in your last claim<\/h3>\n<p>When you applied for EI, you got 14 weeks of regular benefits.<\/p>\n<p>But in week 9, Service Canada disqualified you for <strong>7 weeks<\/strong> because you refused to take a suitable job. When your benefit period ended, you had finished <strong>6<\/strong> of those 7 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>So if you apply for EI regular benefits again in the next 2 years, you might have to finish that <strong>one week<\/strong> of being disqualified.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-46574","publications-page","type-publications-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What happens if I apply for EI again after I&#039;m disqualified? - CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario \/ \u00c9ducation juridique communautaire Ontario)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cleo.on.ca\/en\/publications-page\/will-disqualification-be-counted-against-me-future-ei-claims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What happens if I apply for EI again after I&#039;m disqualified? - CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario \/ \u00c9ducation juridique communautaire Ontario)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You might not be able to get as many weeks of regular EI benefits when you make a new claim. 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