Seasonal self-employed workers are persons who engage, on their own account, in a type of ACTIVITY that can only be carried out during a PARTICULAR SEASON, such as hunting and fishing. The cyclical nature of their work is due to natural factors. Where an activity could be engaged in year round but is not, it is not considered seasonal.
Each CYCLE has a period of activity followed by a period of inactivity. The PERIOD OF ACTIVITY begins in the month in which work begins and ends in the month in which work ceases.
The PERIOD OF INACTIVITY begins in the month following that during which the work ceases and ends twelve months after the beginning of the last period of activity, or when work resumes, whichever comes first.
The provision of assistance to seasonal self-employed workers is a financial assistance measure intended to ensure that such workers and their families will have an income at least equal to that of any other last resort financial assistance recipient. Thus, the purpose of the assistance is to protect seasonal self-employed workers against the risks involved in the particular type of activity they engage in, and it is therefore regarded as an essentially temporary measure.