[chollida1]

> Since employed people have it, why shouldn't self-employed?

Often the problem comes down to fraud. The reason self employed people in Canada can't get EI( our unemployment insurance) is that it's too easy to lay your self off.

For these same reasons, family members can't be layed off from a company.

If we did have this EI for self employed people how would we differentiate between someone who just wants the summer off vs someone who legitimately has no clients.

Another problem is what happens when someone realizes that they can make more money on EI than trying to tough it out with their remaining clients and trying to rebuild their business?

If each case has to be reviewed by an actual person this could take weeks at a time and would probably eat all of the money put into the pot for this new style of EI.