①Where a person eligible to receive continuous employment benefits for the elderly has difficulty in personally carrying out procedures such as claiming continuous employment benefits for the elderly, the employer must provide assistance so that the person can carry out those procedures.

②When requested by a person who is to receive continuous employment benefits for the elderly to provide the certification necessary for receiving continuous employment benefits for the elderly, the employer must promptly provide the certification.

The provisions of Article 44 (excluding paragraph (4)), Article 45, paragraph (1) and Article 46, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to the payment of continuous employment benefits for the elderly. In this case, in these provisions, the phrases "to a qualified recipient" and "to that qualified recipient" are deemed to be replaced with "to a person eligible to receive continuous employment benefits for the elderly" and "to that person eligible to receive continuous employment benefits for the elderly" respectively; the phrase "of the qualified recipient" with "of the person eligible to receive continuous employment benefits for the elderly"; the phrases "a qualified recipient (" and "A qualified recipient who receives" with "a person eligible to receive continuous employment benefits for the elderly (" and "A person eligible to receive continuous employment benefits for the elderly who receives" respectively; the phrase "qualified recipient paid by bank transfer" with "person who receives payment of continuous employment benefits for the elderly by the method prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1)"; the phrase "competent Public Employment Security Office" with "Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the location of its place of business"; and the phrase "that qualified recipient has" with "that person eligible to receive continuous employment benefits for the elderly has".

Nursing care leave benefits are paid where an insured person (excluding a specially insured person in short-term employment and an insured day worker; the same applies hereinafter in this Subsection) takes leave that satisfies all of the following items (limited to leave for which the number of days that the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office finds the person to be working in the payment unit period prescribed in Article 61-4, paragraph (3) of the Act is 10 or less):

The persons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 61-4, paragraph (1) of the Act are the grandparents, siblings and grandchildren of the insured person.

The reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 61-4, paragraph (1) of the Act are as follows:

①When an insured person intends to receive payment of nursing care leave benefits, the insured person must, where employed on a day on or after the day on which the leave prescribed in Article 61-4, paragraph (1) of the Act ended (meaning the last day of the last payment unit period pertaining to that leave), by the end of the month containing the day on which two months have passed counting from the day following the day on which that leave ended, submit a written application stating the insured person's name, insured person number and Individual Number, the applicable family member's name, relationship to the insured person, sex, date of birth and Individual Number, the start date and end date of that leave, the number of days of leave during that period of leave, the amount of wages paid in the payment unit period, and other matters specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau (hereinafter referred to as the "application for nursing care leave benefits"), attaching the documents listed in the following items, via the employer to the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the location of its place of business; 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.

②Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, an insured person may, as provided by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, omit attaching the documents prescribed in that paragraph.

③When the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office finds that an insured person who has submitted the application for nursing care leave benefits pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) falls under Article 61-4, paragraph (1) of the Act, the Chief must notify that insured person to the effect that nursing care leave benefits are to be paid for the payment unit period pertaining to that application for payment.

The provisions of Article 44 (excluding paragraph (4)), Article 45, paragraph (1), Article 46, paragraph (1), Article 101-5, paragraph (8), Article 101-6 and Article 101-9 apply mutatis mutandis to the payment of nursing care leave benefits. In this case, in these provisions, the phrases "to a qualified recipient" and "to that qualified recipient" are deemed to be replaced with "to a person eligible to receive nursing care leave benefits" and "to that person eligible to receive nursing care leave benefits" respectively; the phrase "of the qualified recipient" with "of the person eligible to receive nursing care leave benefits"; the phrases "a qualified recipient (" and "A qualified recipient who receives" with "a person eligible to receive nursing care leave benefits (" and "A person eligible to receive nursing care leave benefits who receives" respectively; the phrase "qualified recipient paid by bank transfer" with "person who receives payment of nursing care leave benefits by the method prescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1)"; the phrase "competent Public Employment Security Office" with "Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the location of its place of business"; the phrase "that qualified recipient has" with "that person eligible to receive nursing care leave benefits has"; and the phrase "continuous employment benefits for the elderly qualification confirmation form / (initial) written application for continuous employment benefits for the elderly and in the written application for continuous employment benefits for the elderly" with "application for nursing care leave benefits".