The speed of benefits isn't affected, but we do ask additional questions for people coming in on the EI side. The reason is that those people will ultimately transition back to employment insurance. We don't want to create a gap or require those people to come back in and reapply for employment insurance. On the EI side, that's the reason we triage them at the front end. If they come in on the EI side, we collect that additional information, which doesn't slow down the processing, so that, when they eventually move back to EI, we won't be required to go back to them.
On May 11th, 2020. See this statement in context.