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| Unemployment - Special rights for low-wage earners and for people who open a new business |
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Grant for unemployment person working at low wages and Maintaining right to unemployment benefit for unemployment person who opens a new business
 Grant for unemployed person working at low wages
An unemployed person referred to work by the Employment Service and who works for at least 25 days at a scope of half-time (50%) work or more, and at wages lower than the amount of unemployment benefit to which he would have otherwise been entitled – will be entitled to a grant for every month of work, at the rate of the difference between the unemployment benefit that he would have been entitled to (had he not been working at low-wage work) and half his wages at the low-wage work.
The grant is paid for 4 months (100 days) at the most, and in any case for not longer than the maximum period for payment of unemployment benefit in each specific case.
The grant applies to unemployed persons who began working at low wages on August 1, 2009 or thereafter.
Submit a claim on the Claim for grant to unemployed person working at low wages Form.
You may submit a claim at the National Insurance Institute branch near your place of residence, on the form Grant for unemployed person working at low wages You can submit your claim, together with the required documents, by fax as well, to the fax of your local NII branch. It is not essential to provide the original documents.
However, the NII may ask you to present an original document if the photocopy or fax is not clear, or for any other reason according to the discretion of the claims officer.
Maintaining right to unemployment benefit for unemployed person who opens a new business
An unemployed person who began receiving unemployment benefit and who decides to open a business before he uses up his maximum period of entitlement to benefit remains entitled to unemployment benefit if his business fails and closes within 24 months.
Your right to unemployment benefit will be maintained if:
1. You first registered as a jobseeker at the Employment Service bureau on May 1, 2009 or thereafter;
2. You accumulated a work period - as a salaried worker - qualifying you for unemployment benefit;
3. You opened a business on August 1, 2009 or thereafter, and your business failed and was closed within 24 months.
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