This Act comes into effect as of April 1, 1975; provided, however, that the provisions of Article 21 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect as of January 1 of the same year.

①The undertakings listed in the following items (excluding the undertakings of the national, prefectural or municipal governments or equivalent bodies, and the undertakings of employers that are corporations (limited to offices)) that are specified by Cabinet Order are to be voluntarily covered undertakings for the time being, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1):

②The formation and expiration of the insurance relationship for the undertakings prescribed in the preceding paragraph are as prescribed by the Supplementary Provisions of the Premiums Collection Act, and an undertaking for which the insurance relationship of labor insurance pertaining to the employment insurance has been formed pursuant to the provisions of Article 2 or Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Premiums Collection Act is to be included in the covered undertakings prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (1).

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 14, paragraphs (1) and (3) to the period during which a specially insured person in short-term employment was a specially insured person in short-term employment, from the day on which the person became that specially insured person in short-term employment (referred to as the "date of acquisition of insured status" in this Article) until the day before the day on which the person ceased to be that specially insured person in short-term employment (referred to as the "date of loss of insured status" in this Article), in the case where the specially insured person in short-term employment has ceased to be that specially insured person in short-term employment (excluding the case where the person continues to be employed by the same employer as an insured person), the specially insured person in short-term employment is, for the time being, deemed to have ceased to be that specially insured person in short-term employment after having been continuously employed as a specially insured person in short-term employment from the first day of the month containing the date of acquisition of insured status until the last day of the month containing the day before the date of loss of insured status.

①With regard to payment of the basic allowance pertaining to a person separated from service for specific reasons prescribed in Article 13, paragraph (3) (limited to those specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) whose day of separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification falls within the period from March 31, 2009 to March 31, 2027 (referred to as the "specified period" in Article 11-3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions), the provisions of Article 20, Article 22 and Article 23, paragraph (1) apply by deeming the qualified recipient (excluding the qualified recipients prescribed in Article 22, paragraph (2)) to be a specific qualified recipient prescribed in Article 23, paragraph (2).

②With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 72, paragraph (1) in the case where the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply, the phrase "or Article 24-2, paragraph (1)" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with ", Article 24-2, paragraph (1) or Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions".

①For a qualified recipient whose day of separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification is on or before March 31, 2027 (limited to, among the qualified recipients other than the qualified recipients who have difficulty in finding employment prescribed in Article 22, paragraph (2), those who are persons separated from service for specific reasons prescribed in Article 13, paragraph (3) (limited to those specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare), and specific qualified recipients prescribed in Article 23, paragraph (2)), who resides in an area designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as an area found to have insufficient employment opportunities in light of the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and for whom the chief of the Public Employment Security Office has found it appropriate to give the vocational guidance necessary for facilitating re-employment in light of the guidance standards prescribed in Article 24-2, paragraph (1) (excluding a person who is able to receive individual extended benefits), the basic allowance may be paid in excess of the prescribed duration of benefits (if the number of days for which the qualified recipient has received payment of the basic allowance within the period under the provisions of Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2) is less than the prescribed duration of benefits, the number of days for which the recipient has received that payment; the same applies in the following paragraph), with regard to the days of unemployment (limited to the days for which recognition of being unemployed has been given) within the period under the provisions of paragraph (3).

②In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the number of days for which the basic allowance is paid in excess of the prescribed duration of benefits is to be limited to 60 days (30 days for a qualified recipient whose prescribed duration of benefits falls under Article 23, paragraph (1), item (ii), (a) or item (iii), (a)).

③Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 20, paragraphs (1) and (2), the benefit period for a qualified recipient who receives payment of the basic allowance under the provisions of paragraph (1) is to be the period obtained by adding the number of days prescribed in the preceding paragraph to the period specified in these provisions.

④With regard to the application of the provisions of Articles 28, 29, 32 and 33, Article 72, paragraph (1) and Article 79-2 in the case where the provisions of paragraph (1) apply, the phrase "receiving individual extended benefits" in Article 28, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "receiving individual extended benefits or payment of the basic allowance under the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions (hereinafter referred to as "regional extended benefits")", and the phrase "the individual extended benefits have ended" in the same paragraph with "the individual extended benefits or regional extended benefits have ended"; the phrase "individual extended benefits, wide area extended benefits" in paragraph (2) of the same Article is deemed to be replaced with "individual extended benefits, regional extended benefits, wide area extended benefits", the phrase "individual extended benefits or wide area extended benefits" with "individual extended benefits, regional extended benefits or wide area extended benefits", the phrase "individual extended benefits are to be provided" with "individual extended benefits or regional extended benefits are to be provided", and the phrase "while individual extended benefits are provided" with "while individual extended benefits or regional extended benefits are provided"; the phrase "or national extended benefits" in Article 29, paragraph (1) and Article 32, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with ", national extended benefits or regional extended benefits"; the term "wide area extended benefits" in Article 33, paragraph (5) is deemed to be replaced with "regional extended benefits, wide area extended benefits"; the phrase "or Article 24-2, paragraph (1)" in Article 72, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with ", Article 24-2, paragraph (1) or Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions", and the phrase "or Article 56-3, paragraph (1)" in the same paragraph with ", Article 56-3, paragraph (1) or Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions"; and the phrase "and Article 59, paragraph (1)" in Article 79-2 is deemed to be replaced with ", Article 59, paragraph (1) and Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions".

If the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has had employment placement activities carried out as a measure to promote employment in other areas pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of the former Act on Temporary Measures concerning the Stabilization of Employment of Coal Mine Workers, etc. (Act No. 199 of 1959), which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act on the Arrangement of Relevant Acts upon the Completion of the Structural Adjustment of the Coal Mining Industry, etc. (Act No. 16 of 2000), then with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 25, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is deemed to have had the wide area employment placement activities prescribed in paragraph (1) of the same Article carried out.

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 40, paragraph (1), for the time being, the term "30 days" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "40 days".

①With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 57 to a qualified recipient whose day of second separation from service prescribed in Article 57, paragraph (1), item (i) falls within the period from March 31, 2009 to March 31, 2027, the phrase "fall under any of the following items" in paragraph (2) of the same Article is deemed to be replaced with "fall under any of the following items or who are persons separated from service for specific reasons prescribed in Article 13, paragraph (3) (limited to those specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) with regard to the second separation from service".

②With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 72, paragraph (1) in the case where the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply, the phrase "or Article 24-2, paragraph (1)" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with ", Article 24-2, paragraph (1) or Article 57, paragraph (2) as applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 10, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions".

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 60-2, paragraph (1) to an educational training benefit recipient who has not received payment of the educational training benefits prior to the basis day prescribed in item (i) of the same paragraph, for the time being, the term "three years" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "one year".

①The educational training support benefits are paid to an educational training benefit recipient (limited to, among the persons prescribed in the preceding Article, those who fall under Article 60-2, paragraph (1), item (ii) and who are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) who has, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, commenced on or before March 31, 2027 the educational training prescribed in the same paragraph that is specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (limited to a person whose age on the day of commencing that educational training is less than 45 years), for the days of unemployment (limited to the days for which recognition of being unemployed has been given) among the days on which the person is receiving that educational training (limited to the days certified to that effect by the practitioner of specified educational training pertaining to that educational training). In this case, with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 10, paragraph (5), item (i), Article 60-5, paragraph (3) and Article 72, paragraph (1), the term "educational training benefits" in the same item is deemed to be replaced with "educational training benefits and educational training support benefits"; the term "educational training benefits" in Article 60-5, paragraph (3) is deemed to be replaced with "educational training benefits and educational training support benefits", and the phrase "Article 60-2, paragraph (2)" in the same paragraph with "Article 60-2, paragraph (2) and Article 11-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions"; and the phrase "or Article 24-2, paragraph (1)" in Article 72, paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with ", Article 24-2, paragraph (1) or Article 11-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions".

②The recognition of being unemployed referred to 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 amount of the educational training support benefits is to be the amount obtained by multiplying by 60 percent the amount obtained by multiplying the daily amount of wages prescribed in Article 17 (referred to simply as the "daily amount of wages" in this paragraph) by 50 percent (for a daily amount of wages of 2,460 yen or more and less than 4,920 yen (when that amount has been changed pursuant to the provisions of Article 18, the changed amount), 80 percent, and for a daily amount of wages of 4,920 yen or more and 12,090 yen or less (when that amount has been changed pursuant to the provisions of Article 18, the changed amount), the rate specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare so as to decrease within the range from 80 percent to 50 percent in accordance with the increase in the daily amount of wages).

④The educational training support benefits are not paid for the period during which the basic allowance is paid and the period during which the basic allowance is not to be paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 21, Article 29, paragraph (1) (including as applied following the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions), Article 32, paragraph (1) or (2) or Article 33, paragraph (1).

⑤The provisions of Article 21, Article 31, paragraph (1) and Article 78 apply mutatis mutandis to the educational training support benefits. In this case, the term "qualified recipient" in Article 21 and the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "person able to receive payment of the educational training support benefits", the phrase "has died and therefore has been unable to obtain the recognition of unemployment" in the same paragraph with "has died and therefore has been unable to obtain the recognition of being unemployed under Article 11-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions", the phrase "the recognition of unemployment for" with "the recognition of being unemployed under the same paragraph for", and the phrase "the recognition of unemployment prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (2) pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (4), item (i)" in Article 78 with "the recognition of being unemployed under Article 11-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions".

①With regard to a person separated from service for specific reasons prescribed in Article 13, paragraph (3) (limited to those specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and excluding qualified recipients) who has received payment of the educational training leave benefits and has separated from service during the period from the leave commencement day until the day on which six months have elapsed counting from the day on which the educational training leave pertaining to those benefits ended (if the person has taken educational training leave two or more times by the day on which one year has elapsed counting from the leave commencement day, the day on which the last educational training leave ended) (limited to a person whose day of that separation from service falls within the specified period), the provisions of Article 60-4, paragraph (1) apply by deeming that person separated from service for specific reasons to be a specified recipient of educational training leave benefits prescribed in paragraph (2) of the same Article.

②With regard to the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph to a person to whom the provisions of Article 60-3, paragraph (3) have been applied, the term "one year" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the period obtained by adding to one year the number of days on which the person is unable to receive educational training for the reasons prescribed in Article 60-3, paragraph (3) (when that period exceeds four years, four years)".

③With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 72, paragraph (1) in the case where the provisions of paragraph (1) apply, the phrase "or Article 24-2, paragraph (1)" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with ", Article 24-2, paragraph (1) or Article 11-3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions".

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 61-4, paragraph (4) to an insured person who has commenced caregiver leave, for the time being, the term "40 percent" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "67 percent".

①With regard to the bearing of expenses by the national treasury under the provisions of Article 66, paragraph (1) (limited to the part pertaining to the expenses prescribed in items (iv) and (vi) of the same paragraph; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph), the national treasury bears, for the time being, an amount equivalent to 55 percent of the amount to be borne by the national treasury under the provisions of the same paragraph, notwithstanding the provisions of the same paragraph.

②With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 66, paragraph (5) in the case where the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply, the phrase "the preceding paragraphs" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the preceding paragraphs (excluding paragraph (1), items (iv) and (vi)) and Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions".

①In each fiscal year from fiscal year 2024 to fiscal year 2026, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 66, paragraph (1) (limited to the part pertaining to the expenses prescribed in item (iv) of the same paragraph) and the provisions of the preceding Article (limited to the part pertaining to the expenses prescribed in the same item), the national treasury bears an amount equivalent to 10 percent of the amount to be borne by the national treasury under the provisions of the same paragraph (limited to the part pertaining to the expenses prescribed in the same item).

②With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 66, paragraph (5) in the case where the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, the phrase "the preceding paragraphs" in Article 66, paragraph (5) is deemed to be replaced with "the preceding paragraphs (excluding paragraph (1), items (iv) and (vi)), and Article 13, paragraph (1) (limited to the part pertaining to the expenses prescribed in the same item) and Article 14, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions".

With regard to the bearing of expenses of the employment insurance by the national treasury, review is to be continued, and the provisional measures concerning the amount to be borne by the national treasury prescribed in Article 13 of the Supplementary Provisions are to be abolished as soon as possible on or after April 1, 2027, after stable financial resources have been secured.

①With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 68-2 in fiscal year 2025, the phrase "the child and child-rearing support contributions collected by the government pursuant to the provisions of Article 71-3, paragraph (1)" in the same Article is deemed to be replaced with "the proceeds from the issuance of the child and child-rearing support special public bonds prescribed in Article 71-26, paragraph (2)".

②With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 68-2 during the period from fiscal year 2026 to fiscal year 2028, the phrase "the child and child-rearing support contributions" in the same Article is deemed to be replaced with "the child and child-rearing support contributions and the proceeds from the issuance of the child and child-rearing support special public bonds prescribed in Article 71-26, paragraph (2) of the same Act".