Canadian Bumpies! Let's talk mat leave....

Re: Canadian Bumpies! Let's talk mat leave....

• hyperangel_8509 member

  January 2011

  From what I've heard, even if you save up vacation time, you will still have to wait two full weeks AFTER to start getting mat leave from the government. I was at a baby show a while back, and a rep from the government office was there to discuss mat leave and child tax benefits. She stated that many women do the vacation thing in order to not have to go two weeks without pay, but the government will not accept that, and they will make you wait those extra weeks.

  
  
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• luvdv8 member

  January 2011

  No- you can not get paid during your two week break, if you do it gets pushed another two weeks. You can ask to get paid out upfront before delivery for your vacation and then put the money away. Any money that you receive after you file for EI must be reported and can delay the TWW or affect the amount you get. My GF tried to cheat the EI while she was on mat leave and when they reassessed her at tax time she wound up having to pay back plus she's now being charged for defrauding the government (it will probably get dropped, but she does have to pay the legal fees to deal with it). Don't mess around with EI!

  Also, you know it's 55% of your salary for the first $44,200- you can't go above that. Also, you generally don't get your first check right on time, mine was delayed by backlog and we didn't receive it until the second pay period when we got a double check.

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• jess1984

  January 2011

  Yeah it's a pita. The first time around I didn't get my ROE to them quickly enough so I waited for 6 weeks before I had any kind of payment. I'm taking vacation from Jan 22 to Feb 13 until I start mat leave on the 14. But Since my techincal last day is feb 11 I can go in then to get all my paperwork done and started. Also see if your company can email/fax your ROE straight to Service canada, this way you won't be delayed more by waiting for it in the mail, etc.

  

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• pamalerjean member

  January 2011

  While the Canadian bumpies are here...I'm also wondering about any other child tax benefits or grants available.  Tell me what you know!  Thanks! 

  (We are so lucky to be Canadian.)

  

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• perplexed59

  January 2011

  If you don't want to waste your Mat leave before you are due you can get a note from your doctor to go off on sick leave. Most of my friends got a note that said that they couldn't work anymore because of sitting or standing too long and so they didn't waste any Mat leave or any vacation and got a couple extra weeks off.

  
  

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• sl_gordon

  January 2011

  luvdv8:

  No- you can not get paid during your two week break, if you do it gets pushed another two weeks. You can ask to get paid out upfront before delivery for your vacation and then put the money away. Any money that you receive after you file for EI must be reported and can delay the TWW or affect the amount you get. My GF tried to cheat the EI while she was on mat leave and when they reassessed her at tax time she wound up having to pay back plus she's now being charged for defrauding the government (it will probably get dropped, but she does have to pay the legal fees to deal with it). Don't mess around with EI!

  Also, you know it's 55% of your salary for the first $44,200- you can't go above that. Also, you generally don't get your first check right on time, mine was delayed by backlog and we didn't receive it until the second pay period when we got a double check.

  Thanks!  For some idiotic reason, I never even thought about getting my vacation time paid out instead of taking the days.  That's exactly why I posted here!  Also, I am aware of the salary cap, unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), I don't have to worry about that small detail...

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• butterfly8199

  January 2011

  pamalerjean:

  While the Canadian bumpies are here...I'm also wondering about any other child tax benefits or grants available.  Tell me what you know!  Thanks! 

  (We are so lucky to be Canadian.)

   

  Here is a website for the government. 

  It has the other tax benefits on it as well. They say to apply for all of them, even if you think you may make too much money 

  https://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/lifeevents/family.shtml

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• S&R Godin

  January 2011

  You will be waiting longer then two weeks to receive your first payment. My ROE was sent in right away and I applied and it still took 7 weeks till I received a payment. So starting saving some extra money if you think money will be tight.  Really they make effort to give your first payment in 28 days. For my first mat leave it took 32 days. So I've never even had payment within the timeline they state.

  I second who ever suggested sick leave. You can get upto 15 weeks sick leave on top of your 15 weeks maternity and 25 parental. Plus those 15 weeks sick leave can be taken in a combination of before you have the baby and the remaining weeks can be taken after your parental benefits expire if for some reason you are not ready to return to work.

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• JCragg

  January 2011

  It takes a min. of four weeks to get paid from the government.
  

  

  

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