Article 24Extended Training Benefits

①When a qualified recipient takes public vocational training, etc. as directed by the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office (excluding the training, etc. that exceeds the duration specified by Cabinet Order; hereinafter the same applies in this Article, Article 36, paragraphs (1) and (2), and Article 41, paragraph (1)), the basic allowance may be paid to the person for a period in excess of the prescribed duration of benefits (if the number of days for which the qualified recipient has received payment of the basic allowance within the period under Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2) is less than the prescribed duration of benefits, the number of days for which the recipient has received payment of the basic allowance; hereinafter the same applies in this Section, except for Article 33, paragraph (3)), with regard to days when the person is unemployed during the duration of the public vocational training, etc. (including period of time that the person spends waiting in order to receive the public vocational training, etc. (limited to the period specified by Cabinet Order)).

②When the chief of the Public Employment Security Office finds, in light of criteria specified by Cabinet Order, that a qualified recipient receiving public vocational training, etc. they directed to undergo (limited to qualified recipients for whom the remaining number of basic allowance benefit days as on the day of completion of the public vocational training, etc. (meaning the number of days for which the basic allowance is payable within the period from the day after the day of completion of the course of public vocational training, etc. to the last day of the benefit period (meaning the period for which the basic allowance is payable for days they are unemployed within the period; the same applies hereinafter) in the case where the provisions of paragraph (4) are considered not to apply; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph and paragraph (4)) is less than the number of days specified by Cabinet Order), is a person who has considerable difficulty in finding employment even after completion of the public vocational training, etc., the basic allowance may be paid to that person in excess of the prescribed duration of benefits with regard to the days they are unemployed within the period prescribed in paragraph (4). In this case, the number of days for which the basic allowance is payable in excess of the prescribed duration of benefits is limited to the number of days obtained by deducting the remaining number of benefit days from the number of days specified by Cabinet Order as prescribed in the first sentence of this paragraph.

③When a qualified recipient who receives payment of the basic allowance pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) takes public vocational training, etc. as directed by the chief of the Public Employment Security Office in excess of the duration of benefits prescribed in Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2), that person's benefit period is to be the period until the day of completion of the public vocational training, etc., notwithstanding these provisions.