Article 101-48Procedures for Application for Payment of Childcare Short-Time Work Benefits

①When an insured person intends to receive payment of childcare short-time work benefits for the first time, the insured person must, within four months counting from the first day of the month subject to payment, submit to the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the location of its place of business, via the employer, a written application stating the insured person's name, insured person number, Individual Number, date of commencement of childcare short-time work, date of birth of the child pertaining to the childcare short-time work application, prescribed weekly working hours before shortening, prescribed weekly working hours in the month subject to payment, the amount of wages paid in the month subject to payment, and other matters specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau (hereinafter referred to as the "childcare short-time work benefits qualification confirmation form and first childcare short-time work benefits application" in the following paragraph and paragraph (7)), attaching the wage certification slip at the commencement of leave, etc., the maternal and child health handbook, a roster of workers, a wage ledger, and other documents capable of proving the existence of the child pertaining to the childcare short-time work, the fact that the insured person is employed, the fact that the prescribed weekly working hours have been shortened, the status of payment of wages, and the amount of wages; provided, however, that where it is difficult, for an unavoidable reason, to submit that written application via the employer, it may be submitted without going via the employer.

②When the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office finds that an insured person who has submitted the childcare short-time work benefits qualification confirmation form and first childcare short-time work benefits application pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph falls under Article 61-12, paragraph (1) of the Act, the Chief must notify that insured person to the effect that childcare short-time work benefits are to be paid for the month subject to payment pertaining to that application for payment, and must also determine the period in which that person is to file an application for payment of childcare short-time work benefits for a month subject to payment (excluding a month subject to payment pertaining to an application for payment already made; the same applies in paragraph (4)), and inform that person of it.

③In determining the period for filing an application for payment prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office must determine it, for one month subject to payment or two consecutive months subject to payment, within a scope not exceeding four months counting from the first day of that month subject to payment; provided, however, that this does not apply where the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office finds it necessary.

④When an insured person who has received the notice under the provisions of paragraph (2) intends to receive payment of childcare short-time work benefits for a month subject to payment, the insured person must, within the period in which the procedure for payment of childcare short-time work benefits prescribed in the preceding paragraph is to be carried out, submit to the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the location of its place of business, via the employer, a written application stating the insured person's name, insured person number, the date of birth of the child pertaining to the childcare short-time work application, the prescribed weekly working hours in the month subject to payment, the amount of wages paid in the month subject to payment, and other matters specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau (referred to as the "childcare short-time work benefits application" in paragraph (7)); provided, however, that where it is difficult, for an unavoidable reason, to submit that written application via the employer, it may be submitted without going via the employer.

⑤The provisions of paragraph (2) through the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to an insured person who has submitted a childcare short-time work benefits application pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (including as applied mutatis mutandis in this paragraph).

⑥Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (4), an insured person may, as provided by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, omit attaching the documents prescribed in them.

⑦A notification under paragraph (1) or (4) (limited to one submitted via the employer) is, where that employer is the employer of a place of business of a specified corporation, to be made by submitting the matters to be stated in those documents, using an electronic data processing system, in lieu of submitting the childcare short-time work benefits qualification confirmation form and first childcare short-time work benefits application and the documents prescribed in paragraph (1), or the childcare short-time work benefits application; provided, however, that this does not apply where it is found difficult to use an electronic data processing system due to a breakdown of a telecommunications line, a disaster or other reason, and where it is found that the notification can be made without using an electronic data processing system.

⑧The provisions of paragraph (6) apply mutatis mutandis to the case of the preceding paragraph.

⑨When an insured person falls under any of items (i) through (iii), with regard to the child pertaining to the notification under paragraph (1), before the first day of the period during which the person engaged in childcare short-time work pertaining to that notification, the insured person must, before that notification, make the notification prescribed in each of those items respectively: