Wage Earner Protection Program Act

Marginal note:Conditions of eligibility

5 An individual is eligible to receive a payment if

• (a) the individual’s employment terminated in the circumstances prescribed by regulation;

• (b) the former employer is bankrupt or subject to a receivership;

• (c) the individual is owed wages by the former employer; and

• (d) the wages that are owed were earned during the six months immediately before the date of the bankruptcy or the first day on which there was a receiver in relation to the former employer.