Income Support / Employment Insurance (EI)

You may be eligible for employment insurance benefits and/or personal support payments while attending apprentice training.

In order to receive these benefits, you must submit your ITA Apprentice Individual ID number to BCIT Apprentice Services.

If you are unsure of your ITA Apprentice Individual ID number, please contact the Industry Training Authority at 778-328-8700 or toll-free (within BC only) at 1-866-660-6011.

Once BCIT has confirmed that your tuition has been paid by the tuition fee due date, you will be sent an employment insurance/personal support information package from Employment and Labour Market Services. You should receive this package in the mail approximately one week prior to the start of your in-school technical training. If you are registering for training after the tuition fee due date, you can pick up an information package at BCIT Apprentice Services or at Employment and Labour Market Services.

For employment insurance benefit information:

Service Canada
100-3480 Gilmore Way
Burnaby, BC
Phone: 1-800-206-7218

Hours of Operation:
Monday to Friday
8:30 am – 4:00 pm

For program financial support information and information packages:

Note: If you are going into apprenticeship training, there will be changes to the application process for program financial support for apprentices for any courses that begin April 2, 2012 and after. Please review the Employment and Labour Market Services web site for more information.

Employment and Labour Market Services
Centralized Unit – ELMS Division
510 Carney Street
Prince George, BC V2M 2K6

Phone:
Victoria: 250-387-6121
Vancouver:  604-660-2421
Elsewhere in BC:  1-800-663-7867

**Telephone Device for the Deaf (TDD)
Vancouver:  604-775-0303
Elsewhere in BC:  1-800-661-8773

Hours of Operation:
Monday to Friday
7:30 am – 5:00 pm

Apprenticeship Incentive Grant

The Apprenticeship Incentive Grant is a taxable cash grant of $1,000 per year. It is available to registered apprentices once they have successfully completed their first or second year or level of an apprenticeship program in a Red Seal trade. For more information, please visit Service Canada - Apprenticeship Grants.

Apprenticeship Completion Grant

The Apprentice Completion Grant is a taxable cash grant of $2000 for registered apprentices who complete their apprenticeship training and obtain their journeyperson certification in a designated Red Seal trade. For more information, please visit Service Canada - Apprenticeship Grants.