Article 61Basic Continuous Employment Benefits for the Elderly

①The basic continuous employment benefits for the elderly are paid for the months subject to payment where the amount of wages paid (where there are wages, payment of which could not be received in the months subject to payment due to misconduct, disease or other reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the amount calculated by deeming that those wages have been paid; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph, the items of paragraphs (4) and (5) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (3) of the following Article) and paragraph (1) of the same Article), to an insured person (excluding specially insured persons in short-term employment and insured day workers; hereinafter the same applies in this Subsection) in the month subject to payment (when the insured person has ceased to fall under item (i), the months subject to payment after the month subject to payment containing the day on which the person ceased to fall under the same item), has fallen below an amount equivalent to 75 percent of the amount obtained by multiplying by 30 the amount equivalent to the daily amount of wages calculated where the provisions of Article 17 (excluding paragraph (3)) are applied, deeming the insured person as a qualified recipient and the day on which the insured person reached 60 years of age (when the insured person has ceased to fall under item (i), the day on which the person ceased to fall under the same item) as the day of separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification (hereinafter referred to as the "amount deemed to be the daily amount of wages" in this Article); provided, however, that this does not apply when the case falls under any of the following items:

②The term "months subject to payment" as used in this Article means the months within the period from the month containing the day on which the insured person reached 60 years of age until the month containing the day on which they reach 65 years of age (limited to months in which the person was continuously insured from the first to the last day of the month and in which they did not take absence from work for which they could receive payment of the nursing care leave benefits, childcare leave benefits, parental leave benefits or post-birth leave support benefits and did not take leave for which they could receive payment of the educational training leave benefits).

③When the deemed daily wage amount is calculated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 17, paragraph (4), the term "the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2)."

④When it is not possible or it is difficult to calculate the deemed daily wage amount pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), or where it is found inappropriate to apply the provisions of the same paragraph using the deemed daily wage amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph, the deemed daily wage amount calculated as specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. In this case, the provisions of Article 17, paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the deemed daily wage amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph.

⑤The amount of the basic continuous employment benefits for the elderly for a single month subject to payment is the amount obtained, in accordance with the classification listed in the following items, by multiplying the amount of wages paid in the month subject to payment by the rates prescribed in the items; provided, however, that where the amount obtained by adding the amount of wages to that amount exceeds the payment amount limit, it is to be the amount obtained by deducting the amount of wages from the payment amount limit:

⑥Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) and the preceding paragraph, the basic continuous employment benefits for the elderly are not paid for the month subject to payment, when the amount calculated as the amount of the basic continuous employment benefits for the elderly for the month subject to payment does not exceed the amount equivalent to 80 percent of the amount listed in Article 17, paragraph (4), item (i) (when that amount has been changed pursuant to the provisions of Article 18, the changed amount).

⑦When the average earnings for the fiscal year have either exceeded or fallen below the average earnings for the year beginning on April 1, 2015 (where the payment amount limit has been changed pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph, the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year of the most recent change), the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must change the payment amount limit applicable from August 1 of the following fiscal year, in accordance with the rate of increase or decrease.