State Aid For Workers To Become Self-Employed

The Administration has available to any entrepreneur a help provided within the benefits for new self-employed: the capitalization of unemployment . This measure to promote self-employment allows a person who is receiving unemployment benefit to redirect the full amount of their subsidy to cover all the expenses of the beginning of a new stage as a self-employed worker.

In this way, the former employee can use this aid in three different situations:

Become autonomous within a society or a cooperative.
Become self-employed and start a new business.
Allocate the amount to make a contribution to the capital stock of a newly created commercial entity or created within a maximum period of 12 previous months.

Requirements to access this help
In order to access this help, it is necessary to meet a series of requirements:

Be a beneficiary of an unemployment benefit for at least three months.
Not having collected the single payment , in any of its forms, in the four immediately preceding years.
Invest the single payment within a maximum period of one month from the approval of the benefit.
People who, in the 24 months prior to requesting the single payment, have made self-employment compatible with contributory unemployment benefit will not be able to access the single payment .
Have passed the trial period established by the cooperative, if it establishes it.

How do I request the one-time payment?
The application to access the capitalization of the unemployment benefit can be submitted through four different channels :

The electronic headquarters of the SEPE.
At the benefits office, by making an appointment.
In any public registry office.
By administrative mail.

However, to carry out this request it will be necessary to accompany it with the following documentation :

Single payment application form.
National Identity Document (DNI) or passport; or, failing that, NIE.
Explanatory report on the project of the activity to be developed and the investment to be made, unless the modality of subsidy of Social Security contributions is exclusively requested.