Article 37

①If a qualified recipient becomes unable to work due to disease or injury after making an appearance and applying for employment at the Public Employment Security Office following separation from service, injury and disease allowance is to be paid, within the limit of the number of days equivalent to the number of days prescribed in paragraph (4), with regard to the days within the period prescribed in Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2) (for those falling under the provisions of Article 33, paragraph (3), the period prescribed in the same paragraph, and for those falling under the provisions of Article 57, paragraph (1) the period prescribed in the paragraph), during which payment of the basic allowance could not be received due to disease or injury (limited to those days with regard to which recognition of the fact that the recipient cannot receive payment of the basic allowance for disease or injury has been obtained).

②The certification set forth in the preceding paragraph is given by the chief of the Public Employment Security Office, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

③The daily amount of the injury and disease allowance is the amount equivalent to the daily amount of the basic allowance under the provisions of Article 16.

⑤The injury and disease allowance is not paid for a period for which the basic allowance is not to be paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (1) or (2) or Article 33, paragraph (1).

⑥When the injury and disease allowance has been paid, with regard to the application of the provisions of this Act (excluding the provisions of Article 10-4 and Article 34), the basic allowance is deemed to have been paid for the number of days equivalent to the number of days for which the injury and disease allowance was paid.

⑦The injury and disease allowance is paid, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, for the days which the certification referred to in paragraph (1) has been obtained, on the day on which payment of the basic allowance is due for the first time after the grounds that the person cannot take up the employment have ceased to exist (if there is no day on which payment of the basic allowance is due after the grounds that the person cannot take up the employment has ceased to exist, the day designated by the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office); provided, however, that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, when they find it necessary, may specify differently for the payment of the injury and disease allowance.

⑧The injury and disease allowance is not paid when a qualified recipient who has obtained the recognition referred to in paragraph (1), with regard to the days for which the certification was obtained, is able to receive payment of the injury and disease allowance prescribed in Article 99 of the Health Insurance Act (Act No. 70 of 1922), the compensation for absence from work prescribed in Article 76 of the Labor Standards Act (Act No. 49 of 1947), the temporary absence from work compensation benefits, the multiple-job worker's temporary absence from work benefits or the temporary absence from work benefits prescribed in the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act (Act No. 50 of 1947), or other benefits equivalent thereto that are specified by Cabinet Order from among the benefits provided pursuant to laws and regulations (including ordinances or rules based on the provisions of laws and regulations).

⑨The provisions of Article 19, Article 21, Article 31 and Article 34, paragraphs (1) and (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the injury and disease allowance. In this case, the term "certification of unemployment" in Article 19, paragraphs (1) and (3) and Article 31, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "certification referred to in Article 37, paragraph (1)."