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Old 05-15-2012, 04:08 PM   #65
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Originally Posted by MarchHare View Post
I'm pretty sure you have to stay in the area in which you're looking for a job to qualify for EI. You'd be committing fraud if you claimed EI while backpacking in South America.
You would be committing fraud, but that doesn't mean that you would get caught. As far as I know the government doesn't share information between departments very well so EI doesn't know that you have left the country. You just carry a cell phone as your contact number or check your messages at home if they follow up with you at all.
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