①Benefits for unemployment, etc. are to consist of job applicant benefits, employment promotion benefits, educational training benefits and continuous employment benefits.

②The job applicant benefits are to consist of the following:

③Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the job applicant benefits for the elderly insured persons prescribed in Article 37-2, paragraph (1) are to be the job applicant benefits for the elderly, the job applicant benefits for specially insured persons in short-term employment prescribed in Article 38, paragraph (1), are to be a special lump sum payment, and the job applicant benefits for the insured day workers prescribed in Article 43, paragraph (1) are to be the job applicant benefits for day workers.

④The employment promotion benefits are to consist of the following:

⑤The educational training benefits are to consist of the following:

⑥The continuous employment benefits are to consist of the following:

A person who receives payment of job applicant benefits must endeavor to find employment by carrying out job-seeking activities sincerely and earnestly, while endeavoring to develop and improve their vocational ability as necessary.

①When a person able to receive payment of the benefits for unemployment, etc. has died and part of the benefits remains unpaid, the person's spouse (including a person in a de facto marital relationship with the person, where the marriage has not been registered), children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents and brothers or sisters, who had shared a livelihood with the person at the time of that person's death, may demand payment of the unpaid part of the benefits for unemployment, etc. in their own names.

②The order of priority in which persons should receive the unpaid part of the benefits for unemployment, etc. pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, is to be the order as prescribed in the same paragraph.

③If there are two or more persons of the same rank in the order of priority to receive the unpaid part of the benefits for unemployment, etc. pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), a demand made by any one of them is deemed to have been made on behalf of all of them for the total amount claimable, and payment made to one of them is deemed to have been made to all of them.

①In the case where a person has received payment of the benefits for unemployment, etc. by deception or other wrongful acts, the government may order the person to return the whole or a part of the benefits for unemployment, etc. paid, and may, in accordance with the standards specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, order the person to pay the amount not exceeding an amount equivalent to twice the benefits that were received through deception or other wrongful acts.

②In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if benefits for unemployment, etc. were paid due to a false notification, report or certification by the employer, employment placement service provider, etc. (meaning an employment placement agency prescribed in Article 2 of the Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives (Act No. 132 of 1966) or a person who conducts vocational guidance (limited to guidance conducted in accordance with the aptitude, vocational experiences, and other actual circumstances of a person seeking employment) prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (4) of the Employment Security Act (Act No. 141 of 1947) in the course of trade (excluding Public Employment Security Offices and other employment security agencies); the same applies hereinafter), person engaged in the business of providing recruitment information, etc. (meaning a person who engages in the provision of recruitment information, etc. prescribed in paragraph (6) of the same Article in the course of trade, and limited to a person who performs the act listed in item (iii) of that paragraph (limited to cases where it is performed at the request of a person seeking to become a worker); the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph and Article 76, paragraph (2)), or practitioner of specified educational training (meaning a person who conducts educational training specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 60-2, paragraph (1); the same applies hereinafter), the government may order the employer, employment placement service provider, etc., person engaged in the business of providing recruitment information, etc., or practitioner of specified educational training to return the benefits for unemployment, etc., or pay an amount of money, as prescribed in the preceding paragraph, jointly and severally with the person who received payment of the benefits for unemployment, etc.

③The provisions of Article 27 and Article 41, paragraph (2) of the Premiums Collection Act apply mutatis mutandis to cases where the person concerned has failed to pay an amount of money ordered to be returned or paid pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs.

The right to receive benefits for unemployment, etc. may not be transferred nor offered as a security nor be subject to attachment.

Taxes and other public charges may not be imposed based on the money received as payment for benefits for unemployment, etc.

①The basic allowance is to be paid pursuant to the provisions of this Subsection, where an insured person who becomes unemployed has been insured for a total period of 12 months or more during the two-year period preceding the day of separation from service, pursuant to the provisions of the following Article (for insured persons who were unable to receive payment of wages for 30 or more consecutive days during that period due to disease, injury or other reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, during the period of two years added to the number of days for which they were unable to receive payment of wages due to those reasons (where the aggregate period exceeds four years, four years); referred to as the "period for calculation" in Article 17, paragraph (1)).

②With regard to the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph to persons separated from service for specific reasons and persons who fall under any of the items of Article 23, paragraph (2) (excluding persons who come to have the qualification to receive payment of the basic allowance pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph), the phrase "two-year period" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "one-year period", the phrase "period of two years" with "period of one year", and the term "12 months" with "six months".

③The persons separated from service for specific reasons set forth in the preceding paragraph are persons who have been separated from service, other than those who fall under any of the items of Article 23, paragraph (2), and who are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as persons whose separation from service was due to the expiration of the term of a labor contract with a fixed term without the labor contract being renewed (limited to the case where no agreement on the renewal was reached even though the person wished for the renewal) or other unavoidable reasons.

①Each period (limited to the periods with 11 or more days as basis of the payment of wages) within the overall insured period when the person was an insured person, counted backwards from the day on which the person ceased to be an insured person or from the day before each day that corresponds to that day in each month and is within the overall insured period (for months that do not have a day corresponding to that day, the last day of the month; hereinafter referred to as the "substitute corresponding day" in this paragraph), to the substitute corresponding day in each previous month is calculated as a full month, and other periods are not to be included in the overall insured period; provided, however, that when the number of days in the period from the day on which the person became an insured person, to the day before the first substitute corresponding day thereafter, is 15 days or more and the number of days in the period based on which payment of wages was made is 11 days or more, the period is calculated as an insured period of half a month.

②The periods listed in each of the following items are not to be included when calculating the period in which the person was an insured person prescribed in the preceding paragraph, pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph:

③With regard to the application of the provisions of paragraph (1) in the case where the insured period calculated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs is less than 12 months (six months, in the case where the terms are replaced pursuant to paragraph (2) of the preceding Article), the phrase "periods with 11 or more days as basis of the payment of wages" in paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "periods with 11 or more days as basis of the payment of wages or with 80 or more hours as basis of the payment of wages", and the phrase "is 11 days or more" with "is 11 days or more or the number of hours in the period based on which payment of wages was made is 80 hours or more".