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CCH® UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE — 8/29/13

New Hampshire amends its UI law to create self-employment assistance program

New Hampshire has amended its Unemployment Compensation Law as follows:

Self-employment assistance program. A self-employment assistance program has been created in the Department of Employment Security effective July 1, 2013. Participants in the program will receive an allowance in lieu of regular benefits so long as they meet the established conditions, as follows:

(1) is eligible to receive regular benefits;

(2) is identified by a worker profiling system as an individual likely to exhaust regular benefits;

(3) has filed an application for participation in a self-employment assistance program within 60 days of filing an initial application for regular benefits and has provided the required information;

(4) has, at the time the application is filed, a balance of regular benefits equal to at least 18 times his or her weekly benefit amount and at least 18 weeks remaining in the benefit year;

(5) has been accepted into a program approved by the Commissioner that will provide self-employment assistance activities;

(6) is participating in self-employment assistance activities;

(7) is actively engaged on a full-time basis in activities, which may include training, related to establishing a business and becoming self-employed; and

(8) has filed a weekly claim for the self-employment assistance allowance and has provided the information the Commissioner prescribes.

Note that the sum of the self-employment assistance allowance paid, plus regular benefits paid, may not exceed the maximum amount of benefits established under the law with respect to any benefit year. In addition, the Commissioner may terminate a participant’s self-employment assistance allowance whenever he or she considers it appropriate.