Nursing care benefit is paid to a worker who has the right to receive a disability pension or an illness or injury pension, based on their claim, when the worker is in a physical condition requiring constant or occasional nursing care and is receiving constant or occasional nursing care due to a disability which is the cause for the payment of that disability pension or illness or injury pension which the worker has the right to receive and whose degree of disability is specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in Article 12-8, paragraph (4), and such payment is made during the period while the worker is receiving the nursing care(excluding the following periods):
介護給付は、障害年金又は傷病年金を受ける権利を有する労働者が、その受ける権利を有する障害年金又は傷病年金の支給事由となる障害であつて第十二条の八第四項の厚生労働省令で定める程度のものにより、常時又は随時介護を要する状態にあり、かつ、常時又は随時介護を受けているときに、当該介護を受けている間（次に掲げる間を除く。）、当該労働者に対し、その請求に基づいて行う。
the period during which the worker is admitted to a facility designed for persons with disabilities (limited to cases where the worker receives nursing care for daily life);
the period during which the worker is admitted to a facility specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in Article 12-8, paragraph (4), item (ii); and
第十二条の八第四項第二号の厚生労働大臣が定める施設に入所している間
the period during which the worker is admitted to a hospital or clinic
病院又は診療所に入院している間
The provisions of Article 19-2 apply mutatis mutandis to nursing care benefits.
第十九条の二の規定は、介護給付について準用する。