New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 12 - LABOR AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 17 - UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT PAYMENTS
Subchapter 18 - SELF-EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAINING PROGRAM
Section 12:17-18.1 - Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context indicates otherwise:

"Full-time basis," with respect to the amount of time spent in participating in self-employment assistance activities and efforts to establish a business, means a minimum of 35 hours per week.

"Peer group" means a group of not more than 20 participating individuals who provide mutual assistance and support for each other's efforts to establish businesses and become self-employed entrepreneurs.

"Reemployment services" means job search assistance and job placement services, including counseling, testing, assessment, job search workshops, job clubs, referrals to employers and providing occupational and labor market information.

"Regular benefits" means benefits payable to an individual under the Unemployment Compensation Law, including benefits payable to Federal civilian employees and to ex-service members pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 85. Regular benefits do not include extended benefits payable under 43:21-24.1 2 et seq. or any other State or Federal program which would provide benefits beyond the duration of regular benefits or additional benefits for training payable pursuant to the Workforce Development Partnership (WDP) Act as provided at 43:21-57 et seq.

"Self-employment assistance activities" means activities, approved by the Division, in which an individual participates for the purpose of establishing a business and becoming self-employed.

"Self-employment assistance allowance" means an allowance, payable in lieu of regular benefits from the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund, to an individual participating in self-employment assistance activities who meets the requirements of 43:21-67 et seq.

"Self-employment assistance services" means services provided to an individual, including entrepreneurial training, business counseling and technical assistance, to help the individual to develop a business plan, establish a business and become self-employed.

"Worker profiling system" means the worker profiling system established pursuant to the Unemployment Compensation Law at 43:21-4.1 and N.J.A.C. 12:17-20. The system identifies unemployment benefit claimants who are most likely to exhaust benefits, using a computerized series of screens and a statistical model to develop a numerical ranking of claimants.

"Workforce Development Partnership Program" means the program created pursuant to the Workforce Development Partnership Act, N.J.S.A. 34:14D-1 et seq.