Summary of Issue: Substantial Fees Paid

Decision 26859 Full Text of Decision 26859

The Board placed undue reliance on claimant's friend when it concluded that claimant was willing to abandon the course. It cost $3,500 for each of 3 sessions; in the absence of evidence about a refund policy, it was perverse for the Board to accept this based only on the credibility of claimant's friend.

Decision 26309 Full Text of Decision 26309

A student who pays $1250 in tuition fees and does not conduct any job searches clearly indicates that her priority is to pursue her studies, not to reenter the labour market. She has surely not shown that her main concern was to find employment.

Decision 21961A Full Text of Decision 21961A

In my view of the evidence, including the claimant's whole course of conduct in leaving her employment in order to enroll in a word processing course and paying a $2,700 fee, such a self-serving statement (that she would leave the course) cannot carry the kind of weight the Board attributed to it.

Decision 25449 Full Text of Decision 25449

The tuition for the Bar Admission Course is $1,780.48. Given the size of this amount, it is not reasonable to assume that claimant would forfeit it to accept employment other than as a lawyer. The nature of the course and claimant's purpose for attending it support the presumption of unavailability.

Decision A-0239.90 Full Text of Decision A-0239.90

The claimant had made a considerable financial commitment (more than $1000) in returning to university, which tends to show a desire to attend university rather than to find employment or to accept employment if it were offered to him. Upheld by FC.

Decision 18475 Full Text of Decision 18475

It does not seem logical that the claimant would make such a significant outlay of money ($5000) only to be willing to forfeit it all to accept the type of employment which she had left.

Decision 17848 Full Text of Decision 17848

Refer to: A-0239.90

Decision 17778 Full Text of Decision 17778

He stated that his courses were optional and that he could stop at any time he was offered a job at $5 an hour. However, he spent $1420 in order to take those courses to qualify as a lawyer and I cannot believe that he would stop in order to accept $5 an hour.

Decision 13809 Full Text of Decision 13809

Her determination to finish the course and her request for the reinstatement of benefits to help her to do so, when combined with the very large tuition fee ($2650), lead inescapably to a conclusion of non-availability.

Decision 13804 Full Text of Decision 13804

The outlay of $1000 as a tuition fee and the lack of any effort to find work are strong indications that claimant's intention is to complete the course and not to look for work.

Decision 13803 Full Text of Decision 13803

The evidence that she left a full-time job and enrolled in a course a few days later, paid a substantial fee and the lack of any effort to find work all tends to show her real interest or motivation was in completing the course and not in finding work.

Decision 12412 Full Text of Decision 12412

The small cost of the course ($255), the short duration (1 month), the limited hours (4 mornings a week) all give credence to claimant's contention that he would have quit if work available. Job search not limited. Chances in teaching irrelevant in July. [p._3]

Decision 12384 Full Text of Decision 12384

In view of the claimant's long standing desire to take the course, his immediate departure from his job, the tuition of $600 and the moving costs, the Board had sufficient evidence to find him not available.