§ 49

Office of Labor, Social Matters and Family (hereinafter referred to as „Office“) may provide an allowance for self-employed gainful activity (hereinafter referred to as self-employment allowance“) for partial compensation of costs related to operation of self-employed gainful activity (hereinafter referred to as „self-employment“) to a job seeker:

-                 Who was registered in the register of job seekers for the period of minimum  3 months;

-       who was registered in the job seeker register at least  12 months  in the case that the job seeker suspended, discontinued or finished the  self-employment operation,

-       self-employment activity,

-       Who will be a self-employer operating a self-employed gaining activity (hereinafter referred to as „self-employment“) on a sheltered workstation in accordance with the Act No.  455/1991 of the Code related to Trades as amended by later regulations, 

-       or who will be a  self-employer operating the  self-employment on a sheltered workstation, performing agricultural production inclusive of economy in forests and water surfaces in accordance with  §§ 12a up to 12e of the Act No. 105/1990 of the Code related to private business of citizens as amended by later regulations,

-       Who presents a written request,

-       Who will operate the self-employment on a sheltered workstation minimum two years consecutively.  

Written request to provide the non-repayable financial allowance is to be submitted by a job seeker to the Office in the territory of which the job seeker will operate the self-employment. 

Obligatory appendices inclusive of business plan together with cost calculation for operation of the relevant self-employment being a part of the allowance request after submitting are an allowance request part.  (See the Appendix “Allowance provision request”).  The above mentioned documents shall be a base to judge the request by the commission of the Office established by the Committee for issues of employment of the Office. 

The Office may assure a preparation for self-employment operation start for a job seeker who has to be prepared to start the self-employment operation. 

Job seeker, after fulfilling all obligations determined by the law, concludes with the relevant Office an agreement related to allowance provision, by which the job seeker is obliged to start the self-employment operation and this operation shall continue minimum three years uninterruptedly in accordance with the submitted request, business plan and cost calculation. The allowance is provided for compensation of costs related to operation of self-employment mentioned in the business plan and shall be used within the period from the operation of signed agreement up to finish of self-employment operation obligation.

 Allowance amount depends on the total work price, region type legitimate for government support and average of registered unemployment rate in a county, in which the relevant person will perform the self-employment. Allowance amount to a person for self-employment since 1 May 2013 is:

The Office will provide maximum 60 % of allowance amounts within 30 calendar days from the day of concluding an agreement related to allowance provision and the remaining part of the allowance, i. e. maximum 40 % of allowance amounts will be provided by the Office after submitting of the first self-employment operation report and provided allowance drawdown after elapsing of 12 months of self-employment operation. 

The self-employment allowance is provided by the Office, in the territory of which a person creates a self-employment job.   

For each year of the self-employment operation during the three-year period of self-employment operation, the recipient of the allowance shall submit a self-employment operation report and provided allowance drawdown.

The first self-employment report and report of provided allowance drawdown within the relevant period shall be submitted by the allowance recipient after elapsing of 12 months of self-employment operation not later than within 3 month from the finish of 12 month self-employment operation.  

The second self-employment operation report and report of provided allowance drawdown within the period of the second year of self-employment operation shall be submitted by the allowance recipient not later than within 3 month from the finish of two-year month self-employment operation. 

The last final self-employment operation report and report of provided allowance drawdown inclusive of documents proving the spent costs in the full amount (100 %) of the allowance provided during the three-year period of self-employment operation, shall be submitted by the allowance recipient within three months after elapsing of the obligation in accordance with the relevant agreement concluded with the Office.

There is no legal claim of allowance to perform the self-employment on a sheltered workstation. 

The allowance may be provided repeatedly not earlier than after elapsing of 8 years from the start of self-employment for which the allowance was provided to this person. 

The allowance is not provided to a job seeker, who is a person with health handicap, to whom the allowance pursuant to § 57 and § 60 of the act No. 5/2004 of the Code related to employment services and change and amendment of some acts as amended by later regulations was provided .  

Use of allowance may be provable and recorded in books during the period of ten years from the finish of obligation to perform the self-employment.

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