change of employer

[kitkat0827]

Hi!

Is there a need to inform OHIP and service canada (for SIN) with regards to change of employer? I'm aware that if there's a change in address and/or name, you need to inform them. Is it the same as when you obtained a new work permit under a new employer?

 

[jes_ON]

Did your old work permit expire? Both will likely have expiration dates that match the expiration date of your old work permit. If your old work permit expired, then both will have expired and you have to renew them.

Otherwise, I think you can wait until the expiration date (of course, I mean before they actually expire), or "renew" them now with the new work permit. I don't think they actually care about the different employer, just that there is no gap between work permits...

(which reminds me of a ludicrous "failure to communicate" with OHIP - they insisted that because I had a new work permit (same employer), I had to do the 3-month waiting period over again - it seemed that their brand new computerized system had not been designed to include the possibility of a work permit renewal, it treated all TWPs as "new." It took me 20 minutes and 2 persons up the management chain to get the obvious across - that since my old permit hadn't expired before my new permit was issued, there was no "gap." Two months go by, no OHIP card, so I called them and they then inform me that I had been denied because because my old permit had by that time expired Fortunately, before I lapsed into a full-blown American-style aggrieved customer rant, I got transferred to a kindly competent person who fixed it...

 

[kitkat0827]

lol ;D

Nope, my old wp didn't expire, I just changed my employer. So I guess there's no need for me to inform OHIP about it. By any chance, do you know if the same thing goes with Service Canada (for my SIN)?

 

[rubyalabar]

can the health insurance and SIN be renewed while on implied status?