Article 50Exceptions to the Amount of Allowance for In-Home Long-Term Care Service

①In a case when a Municipality applies the provisions prescribed in the items of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article to a Long-Term Care Benefit listed in said items received by an Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care for whom the Municipality has found it difficult to pay the necessary expenses for In-Home Service (including equivalent services; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), Community-Based Service (including equivalent services; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), Facility Service, or Home Modification due to disaster or other special circumstances as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (excluding a case when the provisions are applied as replaced pursuant to the provisions of that Article), the term "90 percent" in the referenced provisions is deemed to be replaced with "the percentage determined by the Municipality within the range exceeding 90 percent and 100 percent or less".

②In a case when a Municipality applies the provisions prescribed in the items of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article to a Long-Term Care Benefit listed in said items received by an Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care for whom the Municipality has found it difficult to pay the necessary expenses for In-Home Service, Community-Based Service, Facility Service, or Home Modification due to disaster or other special circumstances as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (limited to a case when the provisions are applied as replaced pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph), the term "80 percent" in the referenced provisions applied as replaced pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the percentage determined by the Municipality within the range exceeding 80 percent and 100 percent or less".

③In a case when a Municipality applies the provisions prescribed in the items of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article to a Long-Term Care Benefit listed in said items received by an Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care for whom the Municipality has found it difficult to pay the necessary expenses for In-Home Service, Community-Based Service, Facility Service, or Home Modification due to disaster or other special circumstances as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (limited to a case when the provisions are applied as replaced pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article), the term "70 percent" in the referenced provisions applied as replaced pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the percentage determined by the Municipality within the range exceeding 70 percent and 100 percent or less".