Europe 1 with AFP 12:16, September 16, 2021

Thursday, Emmanuel Macron announced that all self-employed workers who cease their activity will be able to receive unemployment insurance once every 5 years. 

All self-employed workers who cease their activity will be able to receive unemployment insurance once every 5 years, Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday, to facilitate their access to this device with "too restrictive" criteria.

It will no longer be necessary to have gone through liquidation or reorganization and the income test will be relaxed, he said. Campaign commitment, this system set up in November 2019 has only been used by a thousand people.