A double-whammy. That’s one way to describe what a mother of two in Caledon, Ont., is facing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Alysha Vanderhart is out of work because the company that employed her has closed its doors for the time being.
Yet in addition to losing her employment, at least for now, she said she has twice been denied federal employment benefits recently — even though she paid insurance premiums. “It’s been really stressful.
It’s been hard to pay some bills,” Alysha told Global News in an interview. Unlike hundreds of thousands of other Canadians, Alysha said she has been unable to collect either employment insurance benefits (EI) or the Canada Emergency Response Benefit, commonly known as CERB. “Nobody in our family ever went on