Payment of the allowance begins in the month following the month that includes the day on which the eligible recipient made the claim for certification under the preceding Article (referred to as the "first month of payment" in Article 13-3, paragraph (1)) and ends in the month that includes the day on which the grounds for paying the allowance ceased to exist.
Where an eligible recipient was unable to make the claim for certification under the preceding Article due to a disaster or other unavoidable reason, and makes the claim within 15 days after that reason ceased to exist, payment of the allowance begins, notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, in the month following the month that includes the day on which the eligible recipient became unable to make the claim for certification due to the unavoidable reason.
The allowance is paid in six installments, in January, March, May, July, September and November of each year, for the portion up to the month preceding each of them. However, allowance that should have been paid in the previous payment month, or allowance for the period in the case where the grounds for payment have ceased to exist, are to be paid even in a month that is not that payment month.
手当は、毎年一月、三月、五月、七月、九月及び十一月の六期に、それぞれの前月までの分を支払う。ただし、前支払期月に支払うべきであつた手当又は支給すべき事由が消滅した場合におけるその期の手当は、その支払期月でない月であつても、支払うものとする。
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allowancemachine translation
「手当」
Short for the Child Rearing Allowance (児童扶養手当), which the prefectural governor, etc. (都道府県知事等) pays to the mother who has custody (監護) of, or the father who has custody of and shares a livelihood with, a child whose parents have divorced or whose other parent has died, has a disability of the degree a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, is missing or is in a similar situation, or to another person raising the child (養育者).
Short name set inArticle 4, paragraph (1)
eligible recipientmachine translation
「受給資格者」
A person who meets the requirements for payment of the Child Rearing Allowance (児童扶養手当) — the mother, father or person raising the child (養育者) that Article 4, paragraph (1) names — and who must be certified (認定) by the prefectural governor, etc. (都道府県知事等) as to their eligibility and the amount before it is paid.
Short name set inArticle 6, paragraph (1)
first month of paymentmachine translation
「支給開始月」
The month after the month in which the eligible recipient (受給資格者) made the claim for certification (認定の請求) under Article 6, when payment of the allowance begins; Article 13-3, paragraph (1) counts five years from its first day before part of the allowance is withheld.
Short name set inArticle 7, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 13-3, paragraph (1)