Under certain circumstances, some categories of self-employed persons can be eligible for an increased compensation:

• self-employed persons who suspended their professional activity during one year due to illness or disablement and whose rights to a retirement and survivorship pension remained intact and who submitted the certificate of the NISSE to their insurance company during 4 consecutive quarters
  
  
• self-employed persons whose incapacity for work was recognised and who receive a disability benefit
  
  
• self-employed workers and assistants who in that capacity benefit from a retirement pension, and the surviving spouse receiving a survivorship pension under the self-employment scheme
  
  
• self-employed workers and assistants that have reached the normal retirement age
  
  
• surviving spouses not receiving retirement and survivorship pensions but who can prove at least one year of professional activity by which they can claim the right to the retirement or survivorship pension under the self-employment scheme
  
  
• self-employed persons receiving a guaranteed income for the elderly
  
  
• beneficiaries of the minimum subsistence benefits and self-employed persons receiving social benefits that are equal to the minimum subsistence level
  
  
• self-employed persons who receive a compensation for handicapped
  
  
• full orphans who receive child benefit or an income-replacing compensation
  
  
• handicapped children entitled to increased child benefits under the self-employment scheme
  
  
• persons at their charge