As the iRCC twitter person often reminds people he is only the social media representative. Unfortunately some of the agents can be wrong or there may have been a miscommunication. Unfortunately it seems as it has been identified that you won’t meet LICO if you subtract EI payments which is why they are asking for benefit documents. The application manuals have a ton of information included in them. Sorry.IRCC twitter media corrected themselves, but later deleted the tweet.
Based on Immigration act 134 (1) and Exception (1.1), EI will be deduct from total income line150 in order to test income eligibility for PGP.