Start of Activity
This measure consists of paying the amount of the unemployment benefit in a single payment, or else the benefit is returned in amounts equivalent to the monthly self-employed worker's contribution.
In short, you can request the payment of the entire benefit in a single payment, in case you do not need investment, you can request the entire benefit for the rebate of the self-employed person's social security contributions, or you can take a part in one payment and the rest in installments, in the percentage that you need.
Who can apply?
Those persons who are receiving unemployment benefits and who intend to:
⦁ To register as self-employed.
⦁ Set up a cooperative or a labor company.
⦁ To be incorporated in a stable manner as worker or work partners in cooperatives or labor companies previously constituted.
⦁ Incorporate a commercial company (limited company, limited liability company, etc.) and use the amount of the benefit to make a contribution to the capital stock. Applicants must be registered in the Special Regime for Self-Employment.
⦁ Incorporate a commercial company within a maximum period of 12 months after its incorporation.
Exclusions:
Economically dependent self-employed workers signing a contract with a company with which they had maintained a contractual relationship immediately prior to the legal situation of unemployment or which belongs to the same business group as that company.
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Requirements to apply for the aid
⦁ Be a beneficiary of a contributory unemployment benefit for termination of contract, pending to receive at the date of application for the single payment, at least three monthly payments.
⦁ The beneficiaries of the benefit for termination of activity must have at least six months pending receipt.
⦁ Not having received the single payment, in any of its modalities, in the four immediately preceding years.
⦁ Start the activity within a maximum period of one month from the resolution granting the single payment, and always after the application date.
⦁ Those who in the 24 months prior to the application for the single payment have made self-employment compatible with the contributory level unemployment benefit, will not be entitled to obtain the single payment.
⦁ The date of application for the Single Payment must be prior to the date of registration as self-employed or joining the cooperative or labor or trading company. The start date is considered to be the date that appears as such in the application for registration of the worker with the Social Security.
⦁ If you receive your benefit in the single payment mode, you cannot receive unemployment benefit again until a period of time equal to that corresponding to the capitalization of the benefit has elapsed, nor can you request a new capitalization in the following four years.
Destination of the Single Payment
If you choose to register as a self-employed person
- To be used for the investment necessary to start up your self-employed activity, up to a limit of 100% of the benefit you still have to receive.
- For the monthly payment of all the benefit you still have to receive to subsidise your social security contributions (monthly self-employed contributions).
- Part of your benefit in one lump sum, for investment, and the rest for the monthly payment of self-employed contributions.
If you decide to set up a commercial company
- You can get up to 100% of your remaining benefit to make a contribution to the company's share capital.
- For the monthly payment of all the benefit you still have to receive to subsidise your social security contributions (monthly self-employed company contributions).
- Start-up costs (investments and initial expenses)
If you decide to set up a cooperative or labour company
- You can get up to 100% of the amount of the benefit you still have to receive to make a contribution to the share capital of the cooperative. You can also make a voluntary contribution to the cooperative's capital.
- For the monthly payment of all the benefit you still have to receive to subsidise your social security contributions (monthly self-employment contributions of the worker-member).
- Start-up expenses (investments and initial expenses).