The job applicant benefits for the elderly are paid, pursuant to the provisions of the following Article, when an elderly insured person becomes unemployed and the total insured period under Article 14 during the one-year period preceding the day of separation from service (for an insured person who is an elderly insured person who was continuously unable to receive payment of wages for 30 days or more during that period due to disease, injury or other reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the period obtained by adding the number of days for which the person was unable to receive payment of wages for those reasons to one year (if the period exceeds four years, four years)) is six months or more. In this case, with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 14, the phrase "12 months (six months, in the case where the terms are replaced pursuant to paragraph (2) of the preceding Article)" in paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "six months".
高年齢求職者給付金は、高年齢被保険者が失業した場合において、離職の日以前一年間（当該期間に疾病、負傷その他厚生労働省令で定める理由により引き続き三十日以上賃金の支払を受けることができなかつた高年齢被保険者である被保険者については、当該理由により賃金の支払を受けることができなかつた日数を一年に加算した期間（その期間が四年を超えるときは、四年間））に、第十四条の規定による被保険者期間が通算して六箇月以上であつたときに、次条に定めるところにより、支給する。この場合における第十四条の規定の適用については、同条第三項中「十二箇月（前条第二項の規定により読み替えて適用する場合にあつては、六箇月）」とあるのは、「六箇月」とする。
If a person who is qualified to receive payment of the job applicant benefits for the elderly pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as "recipient qualification for the elderly") (hereinafter the person is referred to as "elderly qualified recipient"), has taken up employment without receiving the job applicant benefits for the elderly during the period prescribed in paragraph (5) of the following Article and thereafter became unemployed again (excluding the case where the person has newly obtained a recipient qualification for the elderly or a special recipient qualification prescribed in Article 39, paragraph (2)), when the person has obtained the certification referred to in paragraph (5) of the following Article after making an appearance at the Public Employment Security Office and applying for employment during the period, the person may receive payment of the job applicant benefits for the elderly based on the recipient qualification for the elderly.