If you have been paid the total amount of the contributory benefit, either in a single payment or in monthly payments for the subsidy of Social Security contributions, the benefit is considered to be exhausted. Even if you canceled the activity undertaken, you would not have the right to receive it again.

In the event that you have not been paid the entire contributory benefit and there is a remainder, you will be able to resume the benefit pending receipt once a time equivalent to the amount that you would have received if you had not capitalized it has elapsed, that is, , if you had received it in monthly payments.

You will be able to resume the benefit, as long as the rest of the requirements are met, in the following cases:

• If self-employment has been less than 24 months, it does not matter whether you have registered as a self-employed person within one of the Social Security regimes.
• If the duration of self-employment has been more than 24 months and less than 60 months and you justify having registered as a self-employed person in the Special Social Security Regime for Self-Employed or Self-Employed Workers or in the Regime Sea Workers Special.

In the cases mentioned above, when the activity ceases, you can resume unemployment benefit upon request. If you present it within 15 business days following the cessation of self-employment, the right to payment will arise from the day following the cessation.

If, after cessation of self-employment, you are entitled to protection due to cessation of activity, you can choose between receiving this or reopening the suspended unemployment benefit. If you opt for the previous benefit, the contributions that gave rise to the new benefit (which you have not chosen) cannot be taken into account for access to a subsequent benefit.