(Portland, OR) -- The Oregon Employment Department is activating a new program to help "hybrid workers" who earn both self-employment income and W-2 wages. The department launched the Mixed Earner Unemployment Compensation program yesterday. The program offers an additional 100 dollars a week to workers who earned at least five-thousand dollars in self-employment income during the most recent taxable year before they applied for unemployment benefits. Benefits are available from December 27th of last year through September 4th of this year and will be retroactive. Application details are on the employment department's website.