①The nursing care leave benefits are paid for the payment unit period where an insured person (excluding specially insured persons in short-term employment and insured day workers; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) has, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, taken absence from work in order to provide care for an applicable family member (meaning the insured person's spouse (including a person in a de facto marital relationship with the insured person, where the marriage has not been registered; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph), parents and children (including those specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as persons equivalent to them), and the spouse's parents; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) (hereinafter referred to as "caregiver leave"), when the period deemed to be the insured period is a total of 12 months or more within the two-year period preceding the day on which the caregiver leave (where the insured person has taken caregiver leave two or more times in order to provide care for the applicable family member, the first caregiver leave; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) was commenced (for an insured person who was continuously unable to receive payment of wages for 30 days or more due to disease, injury or other reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare during the two-year period preceding the day on which the caregiver leave was commenced, two years added to the number of days for which payment of wages could not be received due to the reason (when that total period exceeds four years; four years)).

②The "period deemed to be the insured period" referred to in the preceding paragraph is to be the period equivalent to the insured period that would be calculated when the provisions of Article 14 (excluding paragraph (2), item (iii)) are applied by deeming the day on which the caregiver leave (where the insured person has taken caregiver leave two or more times for the same applicable family member, the first caregiver leave) was commenced to be the day on which the person ceased to be an insured person.

③The "payment unit period" in this Article means a single period when the period of caregiver leave taken (limited to the period until the day on which three months have elapsed since the day on which the caregiver leave was commenced) has been classified into each period from the day on which the caregiver leave was commenced or the day corresponding to that day in each month within the period of the caregiver leave (for a month which does not have a day corresponding to that day, the last day of the month, hereinafter referred to as the "corresponding absence commencement day" in this paragraph and item (ii) of the following paragraph) until the day before the corresponding absence commencement day in each successive month (for the month containing the day on which the caregiver leave was ended, the day on which the caregiver leave ended), in accordance with the classification.

④The amount of the nursing care leave benefits for a single payment unit period is an amount equivalent to 40 percent of the amount obtained by multiplying the amount equivalent to the daily amount of wages to be calculated when the provisions of Article 17 have been applied, deeming the insured person qualified to receive payment of the nursing care leave benefits as a qualified recipient and the day before the day on which the insured person commenced the caregiver leave pertaining to payment of the nursing care leave benefits as the day of separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification (referred to as the "daily amount of wages at the commencement of absence" in the following paragraph), by the duration of benefits prescribed in the following items in accordance with the classification of payment unit periods listed in the same items (referred to as the "duration of benefits" in the following paragraph). In this case, with regard to the application of the provisions of the same Article, the phrase "the proviso of paragraph (1)" in paragraph (1) of the same Article is deemed to be replaced with "the proviso of paragraph (1) and paragraph (2), item (iii)"; the phrase "the amount listed in item (ii)" in paragraph (4) of the same Article is deemed to be replaced with "the amount specified in item (ii), (b)":

⑤Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, when wages have been paid during the payment unit period to the insured person who has taken caregiver leave by the employer who employs the insured person, when the amount obtained by adding the amount of the nursing care leave benefits for the payment unit period to the amount of wages is equal to or more than the amount equivalent to 80 percent of the amount obtained by multiplying the daily amount of wages at the commencement of absence by the duration of benefits, the amount obtained by deducting the amount of wages from the amount equivalent to 80 percent of the amount obtained by multiplying the daily amount of wages at the commencement of absence by the duration of benefits is the amount of the nursing care leave benefits for the payment unit period. In this case, when the amount of wages is equal to or more than the amount equivalent to 80 percent of the amount obtained by multiplying the daily amount of wages at the commencement of absence by the duration of benefits, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), the nursing care leave benefits are not paid for the payment unit period for which the wages were paid.

⑥Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), if an insured person has received payment of the nursing care leave benefits with regard to caregiver leave, pursuant to the provisions of this Subsection, and when the insured person has taken caregiver leave that falls under any of the following items, the nursing care leave benefits are not paid: