The Employee’s State Insurance (ESI) has approved this scheme for Insured Persons (IP) covered under the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948.

It aims to financially support those who lost their jobs or rendered jobless for whatsoever reasons due to changing employment pattern.

Its beneficiaries will be insured persons covered under Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 for period of two years continuously.

The eligibility conditions and other features of the scheme are as under:

1. The Insured Person should have been rendered unemployed during the period the relief is claimed.
2. The Insured Person should have been in insurable employment for a minimum period of two years.
3. The Insured Person should have contributed not less than 78 days during each of the preceding four contribution periods.
4. The contribution in respect of him should have been paid or payable by the employer.
5. The contingency of the unemployment should not have been as a result of any punishment for misconduct or superannuation or voluntary retirement.
6. In case the IP is working for more than one employers and is covered under the ESI scheme he will be considered unemployed only in case he is rendered unemployed with all employers.