A special lump sum payment is made pursuant to the provisions of the following Article, when a specially insured person in short-term employment has become unemployed and the person's total insured period under Article 14 during the one-year period preceding the day of separation from service has been six months or more (for insured persons who are specially insured persons in short-term employment who were continuously unable to receive payment of wages for 30 days or more during that period due to disease, injury or other reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the period obtained by adding the number of days for which they were unable to receive payment of wages for those reasons to one year (when the total period exceeds four years, four years)). In this case, with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 14, the phrase "12 months (six months, in the case where the terms are replaced pursuant to paragraph (2) of the preceding Article)" in paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "six months".
特例一時金は、短期雇用特例被保険者が失業した場合において、離職の日以前一年間（当該期間に疾病、負傷その他厚生労働省令で定める理由により引き続き三十日以上賃金の支払を受けることができなかつた短期雇用特例被保険者である被保険者については、当該理由により賃金の支払を受けることができなかつた日数を一年に加算した期間（その期間が四年を超えるときは、四年間））に、第十四条の規定による被保険者期間が通算して六箇月以上であつたときに、次条に定めるところにより、支給する。この場合における第十四条の規定の適用については、同条第三項中「十二箇月（前条第二項の規定により読み替えて適用する場合にあつては、六箇月）」とあるのは、「六箇月」とする。
If a person who is qualified to receive the special lump sum payment pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as "special recipient qualification") (hereinafter the person is referred to as "specially qualified recipient") has obtained employment without receiving the special lump sum payment within the period prescribed in paragraph (3) of the following Article and has subsequently become unemployed again (excluding the case where the person has newly obtained a recipient qualification prescribed in Article 14, paragraph (2), item (i), recipient qualification for the elderly, or special recipient qualification), when the person, within that period, has obtained the recognition referred to in paragraph (3) of the following Article after making an appearance at the Public Employment Security Office and applying for employment, the person is able to receive the special lump sum payment based on the special recipient qualification.