Article 31-3Application for Extension of the Benefit Period for Persons Who Have Retired at the Retirement Age, etc.

①The application under Article 20, paragraph (2) of the Act is to be made by submitting a written application for extension, etc. of the benefit period to the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office, attaching the separation slip (where two or more separation slips are held, all of them).

②The application under the preceding paragraph must be made within two months counting from the day following the day of separation from service pertaining to that application; provided, however, that this does not apply where there is an unavoidable reason, such as a natural disaster, for not having made the application.

③When the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office finds that a person who has made the application under paragraph (1) falls under the persons prescribed in Article 20, paragraph (2) of the Act, the Chief must issue to that person a written notice of extension, etc. of the benefit period and, after entering the necessary particulars in the separation slip, return it.

④The provisions of Article 17-2, paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the case of paragraph (1) and to the application under paragraph (1) in the case of the proviso to paragraph (2), and the provisions of Article 31, paragraphs (4) and (5) apply mutatis mutandis to the application in the case of the proviso to paragraph (2).