PETL-Self Employment Benefits

This document is based on information from the Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour Web site, February 2008.

The Self Employment Benefits (SEB) is a component of the  PETL-Workforce Expansion. Self Employment Benefits can help you get back to work by creating work for yourself—by becoming an entrepreneur. Start the business you’ve always dreamed of—one that has a market demand, and one for which you have the skills and training to make it succeed.

We can help—by supporting you during the start-up period. Assistance can include technical advice, financial support, and coaching—like accounting and marketing. You can also develop a business plan with the help of a Self Employment Benefits Coordinator.

Receiving Employment Insurance benefits? You will continue to receive these benefits until your claim ends, after which you will receive financial support at a rate provincially determined for a duration of the time you are on SEB.

Eligibility Criteria

A participant must:

• be a resident of New Brunswick or a First Nation Community in New Brunswick
• be unemployed and eligible to work in Canada
• have an active Employment Insurance Benefits claim or a claim that has ended within the last three years, or have received maternity or parental benefits within the last five years
• have acceptable credit references
• have an idea for a successful business as demonstrated by a business plan
• attend an orientation session
• work full time (at least 35 hours per week) at the business

A participant must not:

• be enrolled as a full-time student
• be currently operating a similar business, or be closely associated to a similar business
• have received previous funding under this program or the Entrepreneurship Program during the last five years

The business must:

• begin operations within ten weeks of signing a Self Employment Benefits contract
• operate for at least ten months of the year
• provide the participant with a large degree of operational control

The business must not:

• create undue competition for an existing venture
• be unsuitable for public funding
• be a franchisee with a franchise fee of over $50,000 start prior to the approval of the program application

Summary

Guidelines
A Self Employment Benefits duration may be provided for a maximum of 45 weeks
Self Employment Benefits are available to an eligible participant as follows:

• Employment Insurance (EI) Benefits recipient:
• where a participant’s EI Benefits period is currently greater than or equal to 45 weeks—the participant will receive the EI Benefits for the 45-week program period
• where a participant’s EI Benefits period is currently less than 45 weeks—the participant will receive the EI Benefits for the remainder of the EI Benefits period, then receive provincial support at a rate of $250 per week for the remaining portion of the 45-week program period

Non Employment Insurance Benefits recipient:

• the participant will receive provincial support at a rate of $250 per week for the 45-week duration

For more information, contact a Self Employment Benefits Coordinator at 1-888-303-2232 (or consult the list of addresses at the bottom of this document),  visit the Web site:  http://www.gnb.ca/0311/2de-e.asp or visit the Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour office near you:

(Area code 506)

Bathurst	549-5766
Campbellton	789-2411
Caraquet	726-2639
Edmundston	735-2677
Fredericton	453-2377
Fredericton - Central	453-3818
Grand Falls / Grand-Sault	475-4025
Miramichi	627-4000
Moncton	869-6944
Neguac	627-4000
Perth-Andover	273-4559
Richibucto	523-7612
Sackville	869-6944
Saint John	643-7258
Shediac	869-6944
Shippagan	726-2639
St. Stephen	466-7627
Sussex	432-2110
Tracadie-Sheila	726-2639
Woodstock	325-4406

 

New Brunswick Contact(s):
CBDC Chaleur
Community Business Development Corporations
Suite 212-J
275 Main Street
Bathurst, New Brunswick  E2A 1A9
Telephone: 506-548-5951
Fax: 506-548-5008
Web site: http://www.cbdc.ca/index.php?rid=6

CBDC Charlotte/Kings
Community Business Development Corporations
Suite 202
123 Milltown Boulevard
P.O. Box 455
St. Stephen, New Brunswick  E3L 1G5
Telephone: 506-466-5055
Fax: 506-466-4859
Web site: http://www.cbdc.ca/index.php?rid=11

CBDC Kent
Community Business Development Corporations
190 Irving Boulevard
Bouctouche, New Brunswick  E4S 3L7
Telephone: 506-743-2422
Fax: 506-743-1033
Web site: http://www.cbdc.ca/index.php?rid=15

CBDC Madawaska
Community Business Development Corporations
24 St-François Street
Edmundston, New Brunswick  E3V 1E3
Telephone: 506-737-8925
Fax: 506-737-8922
Web site: http://www.cbdc.ca/index.php?rid=9&

CBDC Northumberland
Community Business Development Corporations
158 Wellington Street
Miramichi, New Brunswick  E1N 1L9
Telephone: 506-778-2121
Fax: 506-778-2224
Web site: http://www.cbdc.ca/index.php?rid=16

CBDC Péninsule Acadienne
Community Business Development Corporations
439 du Moulin Street
P.O. Box 3666, Main Station
Tracadie-Sheila, New Brunswick  E1X 1G5
Telephone: 506-395-9700
Fax: 506-395-5672
Web site: http://www.cbdc.ca/index.php?rid=7&

CBDC Restigouche
Community Business Development Corporations
95 Roseberry Street
P.O. Box 1089
Campbellton, New Brunswick  E3N 2G6
Telephone: 506-753-3344
Fax: 506-753-7131
Web site: http://www.cbdc.ca/index.php?rid=8&

YMCA
19 - 25 Hazen Ave.
Saint John, New Brunswick  E2L 3G6
Telephone: 506-646-2114

CBDC Southwest
Community Business Development Corporations
Suite 112
1910 Route 3
Harvey Station, New Brunswick  E6K 2P4
Telephone: 506-366-3022
Fax: 506-366-3444
Web site: http://www.cbdc.ca/index.php?rid=12&

CBDC Victoria Madawaska-South
Community Business Development Corporations
Suite 300
551 Main Street
P.O. Box 7295
Grand Falls, New Brunswick  E3Z 2W4
Telephone: 506-473-6446
Fax: 506-473-1280
Web site: http://www.cbdc.ca/index.php?rid=10

CBDC Westmorland Albert
Community Business Development Corporations
337A Main Street
Shediac, New Brunswick  E4P 2B1
Telephone: 506-532-8312
Fax: 506-532-1373
Web site: http://www.cbdc.ca/index.php?rid=13&