NH Rev Stat § 282-A:31-h (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 282-A - Unemployment Compensation|Section 282-A:31-h - Self-Employment Assistance Program.

    282-A:31-h Self-Employment Assistance Program. –||I. There shall be in the department of employment security, a self-employment assistance program. Participants in the self-employment assistance program shall receive an allowance in lieu of regular benefits so long as participants meet the conditions established by this subdivision.||II. An individual may receive a self-employment assistance allowance if that individual:||(a) Is eligible to receive regular benefits or would be eligible to receive regular benefits except as provided in paragraph V;||(b) Is identified by a worker profiling system as an individual likely to exhaust regular benefits;||(c) 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 such information as the commissioner may prescribe;||(d) Has, at the time the application is filed, a balance of regular benefits equal to at least 18 times the individual's weekly benefit amount and at least 18 weeks remaining in the individual's benefit year;||(e) Has been accepted into a program approved by the commissioner that will provide self-employment assistance activities;||(f) Is participating in self-employment assistance activities;||(g) Is actively engaged on a full-time basis in activities, which may include training, related to establishing a business and becoming self-employed; and||(h) Has filed a weekly claim for the self-employment assistance allowance and provided the information the commissioner prescribes.||III. The weekly amount of a self-employment assistance allowance payable to an individual under this section shall be equal to the weekly benefit amount for regular benefits otherwise payable under RSA 282-A:25.||IV. The sum of the self-employment assistance allowance paid under this section, and regular benefits paid under this chapter may not exceed the maximum amount of benefits established under RSA 282-A:25 of this chapter with respect to any benefit year.||V. Unemployment assistance shall be payable to participants in the self-employment assistance program at the same interval, on the same terms, and subject to the same conditions as regular benefits except that:||(a) The requirements of this chapter relating to availability for work and active search for work shall not be applicable to the participant.||(b) The requirements of this chapter relating to refusal to accept work shall not be applicable to the participant.||(c) The requirements of this chapter relating to disqualifying income shall not be applicable to income earned from self-employment by the participant.||(d) A participant who meets the requirements of this section shall be considered unemployed for the purposes of this chapter.||(e) A participant who fails to participate in self-employment assistance activities or who fails to actively engage on a full-time basis in activities, which may include training related to establishing a business and becoming self-employed, shall be denied benefits for the week the failure occurs.||VI. The aggregate number of individuals participating in the self-employment assistance program at any time may not exceed 2.5 percent of the number of individuals receiving regular benefits at that time.||VII. Self-employment assistance allowances shall be charged to the unemployment trust fund established in RSA 282-A:103.||VIII. The commissioner shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to:||(a) Procedures for application to the self-employment assistance program.||(b) The definition of self-employment activities and self-employment assistance activities.||(c) Procedures for filing weekly claims for assistance while participating in the self-employment assistance program.||(d) Any other matters that may require rules under the provisions of this subdivision.||IX. The commissioner may terminate a participant's self-employment assistance allowance when the commissioner deems it appropriate.|||Source. 2013, 218:1, eff. July 1, 2013.|