①When a qualified recipient intends to receive payment of employment promotion allowance for a person who, among the persons who fall under Article 56-3, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Act, is employed continuously for six months or more from the day on which the person took up the employment in the covered undertaking of the same employer and is a person prescribed in Article 83-2 (hereinafter referred to as "employment promotion settlement allowance"), the qualified recipient must, within two months counting from the day following the day that is six months counting from that day, submit to the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office a written application for employment promotion settlement allowance (Form No. 29-2-2), accompanied by the documents listed in the following items and by the qualified recipient's certificate (or, where the qualified recipient has been issued a notice of recipient qualification, by presenting an Individual Number Card together with attaching the documents listed in the following items).

②Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, in addition to the case prescribed in the proviso to Article 22, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the following paragraph, a qualified recipient may, as specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, omit attaching the qualified recipient's certificate (or, where the qualified recipient has been issued a notice of recipient qualification, omit presenting an Individual Number Card).

③The proviso to Article 22, paragraph (1) applies mutatis mutandis to the submission in the case referred to in paragraph (1).

When the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office has decided to pay employment promotion settlement allowance to a qualified recipient, the Chief is to pay the employment promotion settlement allowance within seven days counting from the day following that day.

The amount specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 56-3, paragraph (3), item (ii) of the Act is the amount obtained, in accordance with the classification of persons listed in (a) through (d) of that item, by multiplying the amount specified in the corresponding one of (a) through (d) by the number obtained by multiplying 90 (where the remaining number of benefit days prescribed in Article 56-3, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Act pertaining to the qualified recipient (excluding a person whose prescribed duration of benefits based on the recipient qualification is 270 days or more) (hereinafter referred to as the "remaining number of benefit days" in this Article) is less than 90 days, the remaining number of benefit days (where that number is below 45, 45)) by 4/10.

①When a qualified recipient, etc. intends to receive payment of employment promotion allowance for a person who falls under Article 56-3, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as "regular employment preparation allowance"), the qualified recipient, etc. must, within one month counting from the day following the day on which the recipient took up the stable employment referred to in that item, submit a written application for regular employment preparation allowance (Form No. 29-3) to the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office (for a qualified day worker recipient, the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the location of the place of business pertaining to the stable employment referred to in Article 56-3, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Act; the same applies in the following Article), accompanied by documents capable of proving that the recipient falls under Article 82, paragraph (2), item (ii) and by a qualified recipient's certificate, elderly qualified recipient's certificate, specially qualified recipient's certificate or insurance record book (hereinafter referred to as "qualified recipient's certificate, etc." in this Section) (or, where a qualified recipient, an elderly qualified recipient or a specially qualified recipient has been issued a notice of recipient qualification, a notice of recipient qualification for the elderly or a special recipient qualification notice, respectively, by presenting an Individual Number Card together with attaching those documents). In this case, where that qualified recipient, etc. is a person who falls under Article 82-3, paragraph (2), item (i), the recipient must attach to the written application for regular employment preparation allowance documents capable of proving that the recipient is an assisted worker pertaining to a re-employment assistance plan or an elderly person covered by job-seeking support.

②The proviso to Article 22, paragraph (1) applies mutatis mutandis to the qualified recipient's certificate, etc. referred to in the preceding paragraph (or, where a qualified recipient, an elderly qualified recipient or a specially qualified recipient has been issued a notice of recipient qualification, a notice of recipient qualification for the elderly or a special recipient qualification notice, respectively, the Individual Number Card).

When the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office has decided to pay regular employment preparation allowance to a qualified recipient, etc., the Chief is to pay the regular employment preparation allowance within seven days counting from the day following that day.

The number of days specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 57, paragraph (1), item (i), (a) of the Act is 14 days.

The persons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 57, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Act are those listed in the items of Article 35.

The reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 57, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Act are the reasons listed in the items of Article 36.

①With regard to the application of Article 24, paragraphs (3) and (4), Article 24-2, paragraph (4), Article 25, paragraph (4), and Article 27, paragraph (3) of the Act to a qualified recipient who falls under Article 57, paragraph (1) of the Act and who receives the extended benefits prescribed in Article 28, paragraph (1) of the Act, the phrase "Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2)" in Article 24, paragraph (3) of the Act is deemed to be replaced with "Article 57, paragraph (1)", and the phrase "these provisions" is deemed to be replaced with "that paragraph"; the phrase "Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2)" in paragraph (4) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 57, paragraph (1)", the phrase "these provisions" is deemed to be replaced with "that paragraph", and the phrase "paragraphs (1) and (2) of the same Article" is deemed to be replaced with "paragraph (1) of the same Article"; and the phrase "Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2)" in Article 24-2, paragraph (4), Article 25, paragraph (4) and Article 27, paragraph (3) of the Act is deemed to be replaced with "Article 57, paragraph (1)", and the phrase "these provisions" is deemed to be replaced with "that paragraph".

②With regard to the application of Article 9, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Order to a qualified recipient under the preceding paragraph, the phrase "Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Act" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 57, paragraph (1) of the Act", and the phrase "paragraphs (1) and (2) of the same Article" is deemed to be replaced with "paragraph (1) of the same Article"; and the phrase "Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Act" in paragraph (2) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 57, paragraph (1) of the Act".

Relocation expenses are to be paid where a qualified recipient, etc. changes the recipient's domicile or residence in order to take up employment referred by a Public Employment Security Office, a specified local government or an employment placement service provider (excluding a person prescribed in Article 13-2, paragraph (2) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Employment Security Act (Order of the Ministry of Labour No. 12 of 1947); the same applies in Articles 94 and 95), or in order to take public vocational training, etc. as directed by the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office, and falls under all of the following items; provided, however, that this does not apply where there are special circumstances, such as that the person's period of employment is less than one year.

①Relocation expenses consist of railway fare, ship fare, air fare, vehicle fare, moving expenses and arrival allowance.

②Relocation expenses (excluding the arrival allowance) are to be paid for the route from the former place of residence to the new place of residence of the qualified recipient, etc. who receives payment of the relocation expenses.

①Railway fare is to be an amount equivalent to the ordinary passenger fare, and in a case falling under any of the following items, the amount obtained by adding the amount specified in the relevant item to that amount equivalent to the ordinary passenger fare.

②Ship fare is to be an amount equivalent to the second-class fare (for a railway connecting ferry, an amount equivalent to the ordinary passenger fare).

③Air fare is to be the amount of the passenger fare actually paid.

④Vehicle fare is to be 37 yen per kilometer.

⑤The railway fare, ship fare, air fare and vehicle fare under the preceding four paragraphs are to be paid for the qualified recipient, etc. and the relatives accompanying that person.

⑥Where a qualified recipient, etc. and the relatives accompanying that person change their domicile or residence using automobiles, etc. owned by the new employer, etc., the railway fare, ship fare, air fare and vehicle fare are, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (4), to be the amount calculated based on the expenses paid by the qualified recipient, etc. and the relatives accompanying that person (hereinafter referred to as the "amount equivalent to actual expenses" in this paragraph and Article 92, paragraph (2), item (i)); provided, however, that where the amount equivalent to actual expenses exceeds the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (4) (hereinafter referred to as the "calculated amount" in this paragraph), the calculated amount is the upper limit.