I have two answers for you, and I may be correcting myself or somebody will correct me over time.
My understanding is that the department has allowed people who are on CERB to get $1,000 from their supplementary plan. That's what they have allowed workers who are going to work and getting CERB to earn.
My understanding is, at least, that for clarity purposes, those who are getting the wage subsidy can have their supplementary plan top them up from their wage subsidy to their full salary as intended.
That should be the norm, of course. The CERB was brought in, of course, to try to streamline the process to get benefits quickly. The rules only allowed for workers to earn up to $1,000.
We've been urging the government to continue to make improvements so that workers who are paying into their supplementary plan should be able to access that. You're absolutely correct that would have been the norm if they were on employment benefits. Of course that's not fully allowed 100% if they're getting the CERB right now.
They can get up to $1,000, as we understand it, working with the department, and similarly, up to the difference between their wage subsidy and their full salary under the supplemental plan currently.