Article 9Restriction on Payment

①If the previous year's income of an eligible recipient (excluding a person raising a child who falls under Article 4, paragraph (1), item (i), (b) or (d) and has no mother, a child who falls under item (ii), (b) or (d) of that paragraph and has no father, or any other child specified by Cabinet Order; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) is the amount specified by Cabinet Order or more, according to the presence and number of the spouse in the same household and dependents of that person prescribed in the Income Tax Act (Act No. 33 of 1965) (hereinafter referred to as "dependents and similar persons") and of children who are not dependents and similar persons of that eligible recipient but whom that eligible recipient supported as of December 31 of the previous year, the allowance is not paid, in whole or in part, from November of that year to October of the following year, as provided by Cabinet Order.

②Where the eligible recipient is a mother and a child in her custody has received from the father payment of the expenses necessary for raising that child, or where the eligible recipient is a father and a child in his custody and sharing a livelihood with him has received from the mother payment of the expenses necessary for raising that child, the amount of income under the preceding paragraph is to be calculated, as provided by Cabinet Order, by deeming the eligible recipient to have received payment of those expenses.