The educational training benefits are to be paid when persons falling under any of the following items (hereinafter referred to as "educational training benefit recipients") take and complete the educational training designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as job-related educational training necessary for employment security and promotion of job placement as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (including the case where they are taking the educational training and the case is specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and limited to the case where the certification specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has been made by the practitioner of specified educational training pertaining to the educational training), and where the required period for payment is three years or more:
教育訓練給付金は、次の各号のいずれかに該当する者（以下「教育訓練給付金支給対象者」という。）が、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、雇用の安定及び就職の促進を図るために必要な職業に関する教育訓練として厚生労働大臣が指定する教育訓練を受け、当該教育訓練を修了した場合（当該教育訓練を受けている場合であつて厚生労働省令で定める場合を含み、当該教育訓練に係る指定教育訓練実施者により厚生労働省令で定める証明がされた場合に限る。）において、支給要件期間が三年以上であるときに、支給する。
persons who are generally insured persons (meaning insured persons other than elderly insured persons, specially insured persons in short-term employment, and insured day workers; the same applies hereinafter) or elderly insured persons on the day of commencing the educational training (hereinafter referred to as "the basis day" in this Article); or
当該教育訓練を開始した日（以下この条において「基準日」という。）に一般被保険者（被保険者のうち、高年齢被保険者、短期雇用特例被保険者及び日雇労働被保険者以外の者をいう。以下同じ。）又は高年齢被保険者である者
persons other than those listed in the preceding item, whose basis day falls within the period specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare from the day on which they ceased to be generally insured persons or elderly insured persons immediately before the basis day.
The required period for payment referred to in the preceding paragraph is to be the period, within the period before the basis day, during which an educational training benefit recipient is employed continuously as an insured person in a covered undertaking by the same employer (for persons who had at one time been insured before the day they became an insured person pertaining to the period of employment, the period is to be the aggregate of the period of employment and the period during which the person had been insured); provided, however, that when the periods listed in the following items are included in that period, the period is calculated excluding all periods falling under those listed in the items:
前項の支給要件期間は、教育訓練給付金支給対象者が基準日までの間に同一の事業主の適用事業に引き続いて被保険者として雇用された期間（当該雇用された期間に係る被保険者となつた日前に被保険者であつたことがある者については、当該雇用された期間と当該被保険者であつた期間を通算した期間）とする。ただし、当該期間に次の各号に掲げる期間が含まれているときは、当該各号に掲げる期間に該当する全ての期間を除いて算定した期間とする。
when the period of employment or the day on which the person had ceased to be an insured person immediately before the day they became an insured person pertaining to the period during which they had been insured is not within a one-year period prior to the day on which they had become insured, the period is the period during which the person had been insured before the day on which they had ceased to be an insured person; or
当該雇用された期間又は当該被保険者であつた期間に係る被保険者となつた日の直前の被保険者でなくなつた日が当該被保険者となつた日前一年の期間内にないときは、当該直前の被保険者でなくなつた日前の被保険者であつた期間
when the educational training benefits have been received prior to the basis day, the period is the period during which the person was insured prior to the basis day pertaining to the benefits.
The provisions of Article 22, paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the calculations of the required period for payment referred to in the preceding paragraph.
The amount of the educational training benefits is to be an amount obtained by multiplying the amount of expenses which the educational training benefit recipients have paid for taking the educational training prescribed in paragraph (1) (limited to expenses within the limit specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) (limited to the amount which has been certified by the practitioner of specified educational training pertaining to the educational training as the amount of expenses paid for taking the educational training) by a rate specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, within the range of 20 percent or more and 80 percent or less (when the amount exceeds the amount specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the amount specified).
教育訓練給付金の額は、教育訓練給付金支給対象者が第一項に規定する教育訓練の受講のために支払つた費用（厚生労働省令で定める範囲内のものに限る。）の額（当該教育訓練の受講のために支払つた費用の額であることについて当該教育訓練に係る指定教育訓練実施者により証明がされたものに限る。）に百分の二十以上百分の八十以下の範囲内において厚生労働省令で定める率を乗じて得た額（その額が厚生労働省令で定める額を超えるときは、その定める額）とする。
Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) and the preceding paragraph, when the amount calculated as the educational training benefits under the provisions of those paragraphs does not exceed the amount specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, or when the educational training benefit recipient has received payment of the educational training benefits within the period specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare before the basis day, the educational training benefits are not paid.
第一項及び前項の規定にかかわらず、同項の規定により教育訓練給付金の額として算定された額が厚生労働省令で定める額を超えないとき、又は教育訓練給付金支給対象者が基準日前厚生労働省令で定める期間内に教育訓練給付金の支給を受けたことがあるときは、教育訓練給付金は、支給しない。