Article 18Burden of Costs Required for Child Allowance

①The costs required for payment of child allowance for children under three (meaning the portion of child allowance calculated on the basis of the number of children each of whom is a covered child under three prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (2), item (v) or a child placed in a facility, etc. under three prescribed in item (ix) of that paragraph, or the amount for children under three prescribed in paragraph (3) of that Article; the same applies hereinafter in this Chapter) to an employee (meaning an insured person who is not a public employee and for whom a person set forth in the items of Article 69, paragraph (1) of the Act on Support for Children and Child-rearing is obliged to bear or pay insurance premiums; the same applies hereinafter) are to be covered, as to the entire amount, by the grant from the national government under paragraph (1) of the following Article.

③The costs required for payment of child allowance for children aged three or over (meaning child allowance excluding child allowance for children under three; the same applies hereinafter in this Chapter) to employees and persons who are not employees, etc. are to be covered, as to the amount equivalent to seven-ninths thereof, by the grant from the national government under paragraph (3) of the following Article, and as to the amount equivalent to one-ninth thereof, by the grant from the prefecture under Article 19-2, paragraph (2), and the municipality bears the amount equivalent to one-ninth of those costs.

④The costs required for payment of child allowance set forth in the following are to be borne by the persons specified in the respective items:

⑤The National Treasury is to bear, each fiscal year within the limits of the budget, the costs required for the execution of administrative affairs relating to child allowance (excluding the costs necessary for processing the affairs of child allowance paid by the mayor of the municipality pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1)).

⑥With regard to the bearing of costs under the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3), for the period from the month following the month that includes the day on which a claim for certification under Article 7 was made until July of that year or of the following year (for a person who has submitted a notification under Article 26, paragraph (1) or (2), the period from August of that year until July of the following year), it is based on the category of employee or person who is not an employee, etc. at the time of making the claim for certification (for a person who has submitted a notification under Article 26, paragraph (1) or (2), on June 1).