Short-term Enterprise Allowance
The Short-term Enterprise Allowance encourages unemployed people and those receiving other social welfare payments to take up self employment opportunities by allowaning them to retain a proportion of their social welfare payment, plus secondary benefits. You can get immediate access to the allowance but you must meet the qualify conditions:
- To qualify you must have an entitlement to Jobseeker's Benefit and have 104 PRSI contributions paid or qualify for a statutory redundancy payment
- The Allowance will be paid for a maximum of 1 year. It will end when your entitlement to Jobseeker's Benefit ends (that is, at either 9 months or 12 months)
If you are already on Jobseeker's Benefit, the period remaining to you on JB will decide the lenght of your short-term BTWEA. Your JB will be paid at the full rate (100%) of JB while on the Short-term Enterprise Allowance.
Secondary Benefits and the BTWEA / Short-term Enterprise Allowance
Participants may retain any secondary benefits they were in receipt of prior to participation on either scheme.
