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.
A participant must:
A participant must not:
The business must:
The business must not:
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:
Non Employment Insurance Benefits recipient:
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