Article 20Benefit Period and the Duration of Benefits
第二十条（支給の期間及び日数）
The basic allowance is paid, unless otherwise specified in this Act, in accordance with the classification of qualified recipients listed in the following items, for the days of unemployment within the period prescribed in each of those items (where a qualified recipient, who is unable to work for a continuous period of 30 days or more within the period due to pregnancy, childbirth or childcare or for other reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, has notified to that effect to the chief of the Public Employment Security Office as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the number of days for which the person is unable to work due to those reasons are to be added to the period and where the total period after that addition exceeds four years, the prescribed period is to be four years), within the limit of the number of days equivalent to the prescribed duration of benefits provided for in Article 22, paragraph (1):
qualified recipients other than those listed in the following item and item (iii):one year calculated from the day after the day of separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification for the basic allowance (hereinafter referred to as "the basis day" in this Subsection);
qualified recipients who fall under Article 22, paragraph (2), item (i) on the basis day:a period of 60 days added to one year calculated from the day after the basis day; and
基準日において第二十二条第二項第一号に該当する受給資格者 基準日の翌日から起算して一年に六十日を加えた期間
specific qualified recipients prescribed in Article 23, paragraph (2) who fall under Article 23, paragraph (1), item (ii), (a) on the basis day:a period of 30 days added to one year calculated from the day after the basis day.
基準日において第二十三条第一項第二号イに該当する同条第二項に規定する特定受給資格者 基準日の翌日から起算して一年に三十日を加えた期間
When a qualified recipient whose separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification is due to reaching retirement age (limited to the retirement age equal to or exceeding the age specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) or for any other reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, does not wish to apply for employment as prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (2) during a certain period after the separation from service, and notifies to this effect to the chief of the Public Employment Security Office as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the phrases "in accordance with the classification of qualified recipient listed in the following items...within the period prescribed in each of those items" and "within the period" in the preceding paragraph are deemed to be replaced, respectively, with "within the total of the period prescribed in each of the items and the period equivalent to a certain period (limited to one year) during which the recipient does not wish to apply for employment as prescribed in the following paragraph (where the recipient has applied for employment as prescribed in Article 15, paragraph (2) during the certain period in which they do not wish to apply for employment, the total of the period prescribed in each of those items and a period equivalent to the period from the day after the day of separation from service pertaining to recipient qualification for the basic allowance (hereinafter referred to as "the basis day" in this Subsection) until the day before the application for employment is made)" and "within the total period"; and the phrase "the day of separation from service pertaining to recipient qualification for the basic allowance (hereinafter referred to as "the basis day" in this Subsection)" in item (i) of the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the basis day."
受給資格者であつて、当該受給資格に係る離職が定年（厚生労働省令で定める年齢以上の定年に限る。）に達したことその他厚生労働省令で定める理由によるものであるものが、当該離職後一定の期間第十五条第二項の規定による求職の申込みをしないことを希望する場合において、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより公共職業安定所長にその旨を申し出たときは、前項中「次の各号に掲げる受給資格者の区分に応じ、当該各号に定める期間」とあるのは「次の各号に掲げる受給資格者の区分に応じ、当該各号に定める期間と、次項に規定する求職の申込みをしないことを希望する一定の期間（一年を限度とする。）に相当する期間を合算した期間（当該求職の申込みをしないことを希望する一定の期間内に第十五条第二項の規定による求職の申込みをしたときは、当該各号に定める期間に当該基本手当の受給資格に係る離職の日（以下この款において「基準日」という。）の翌日から当該求職の申込みをした日の前日までの期間に相当する期間を加算した期間）」と、「当該期間内」とあるのは「当該合算した期間内」と、同項第一号中「当該基本手当の受給資格に係る離職の日（以下この款において「基準日」という。）」とあるのは「基準日」とする。
In the case referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, when a person who has the recipient qualification referred to in paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as "previous recipient qualification" in this paragraph) has newly obtained a recipient qualification, a recipient qualification for the elderly prescribed in Article 37-3, paragraph (2), or a special recipient qualification prescribed in Article 39, paragraph (2) during the period under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the basic allowance based on the previous recipient qualification will not be paid from the date of obtaining the new qualification.
Article 20-2Special Provisions Concerning the Benefit Period
第二十条の二（支給の期間の特例）
If a qualified recipient who has commenced a business after the basis day (excluding a business whose period of implementation is less than 30 days and other businesses specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare), or a person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as equivalent thereto, has notified the chief of the Public Employment Security Office to that effect as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the period of implementation of the business (excluding, where the number of days in the period of implementation exceeds the number of days obtained by deducting the number of days in the period calculated pursuant to the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) of the preceding Article from four years, the number of days in excess) is not to be included in the period under the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) of that Article.
第二十一条（待期）
The basic allowance is not paid if a qualified recipient has been unemployed for a period of less than seven days in total (including days on which the recipient is unable to work on account of disease or injury) from the day of the first application for employment to the Public Employment Security Office after separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification for the basic allowance.
Article 22Prescribed Duration of Benefits
第二十二条（所定給付日数）
The number of days for which the basic allowance is payable based on single recipient qualification (hereinafter referred to as the "prescribed duration of benefits") is to be the number of days specified in each of the following items in accordance with the classification of qualified recipients listed in the respective items:
一の受給資格に基づき基本手当を支給する日数（以下「所定給付日数」という。）は、次の各号に掲げる受給資格者の区分に応じ、当該各号に定める日数とする。
qualified recipients with a basic period for calculation of 20 years or more:150 days;
算定基礎期間が二十年以上である受給資格者 百五十日
qualified recipients with a basic period for calculation of 10 years or more and less than 20 years:120 days; and
算定基礎期間が十年以上二十年未満である受給資格者 百二十日
qualified recipients with a basic period for calculation of less than 10 years:90 days.
算定基礎期間が十年未満である受給資格者 九十日
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the prescribed duration of benefits for qualified recipients set forth in the preceding paragraph who have difficulty in finding employment for reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is to be the number of days specified in the following items in accordance with the classification of qualified recipients listed in those items for those with a basic period for calculation equal to or exceeding one year, and 150 days for those with a basic period for calculation of less than one year:
qualified recipients who are 45 years old or older and under 65 years old on the basis day:360 days; and
基準日において四十五歳以上六十五歳未満である受給資格者 三百六十日
qualified recipients who are under 45 years old on the basis day:300 days.
基準日において四十五歳未満である受給資格者 三百日
The basic period for calculation referred to in the preceding two paragraphs is to be the period in which a qualified recipient specified in those provisions has been employed as an insured person in a covered undertaking by the same employer continuously until the basis day (for a person who had at one time been an insured person before the person became an insured person pertaining to the employment period, the total of that employment period and the period for which they were the insured person); provided, however, that in the case where the period includes periods listed in the following items, the period is to be that calculated by excluding all the periods falling under the periods listed in those respective items:
when the employment period or the day on which a person most recently ceased to be an insured person immediately preceding the day on which the person became an insured person pertaining to the insured period, is not within the one-year period preceding the day on which the person became an insured person, the insured period preceding that immediately preceding the day on which the person most recently ceased to be an insured person; and
当該雇用された期間又は当該被保険者であつた期間に係る被保険者となつた日の直前の被保険者でなくなつた日が当該被保険者となつた日前一年の期間内にないときは、当該直前の被保険者でなくなつた日前の被保険者であつた期間
for those who had received the basic allowance or a special lump sum payment before the day on which they became insured persons pertaining to the employment period, the period during which they were insured persons before the day of their separation from service pertaining to the recipient qualification for these benefits or to the special recipient qualification prescribed in Article 39, paragraph (2).
for those who have received payment of educational training leave benefits, the period during which they were insured persons before the leave commencement day prescribed in Article 60-3, paragraph (1) and the period of the leave for which those benefits were paid; and
for those who have received payment of childcare leave benefits or parental leave benefits, the period of the leave for which those benefits were paid.
育児休業給付金又は出生時育児休業給付金の支給を受けたことがある者については、これらの給付金の支給に係る休業の期間
With regard to a single insured period, if the day on which a person became an insured person was before the day two years preceding the day on which confirmation of the person's status as an insured person was made pursuant to the provisions of Article 9, the calculations under the preceding paragraph are to be carried out by deeming that the person has become an insured person on the day two years preceding the day of the confirmation.
With regard to the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph to a person who satisfies all of the following requirements (excluding a person who knew of the fact prescribed in item (i)), the phrase "the day two years preceding the day of the confirmation" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the day specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as the earliest time at which it is evident that an amount equivalent to the amount to be borne by the insured person prescribed in item (ii) of the following paragraph had been deducted from the wages paid to that person".
the notification under the provisions of Article 7 had not been made with regard to the person; and
その者に係る第七条の規定による届出がされていなかつたこと。
there is a time before the day two years preceding the day on which it was confirmed pursuant to the provisions of Article 9 that the person had become an insured person, at which it is evident, based on the documents specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, that an amount equivalent to the amount to be borne by the insured person had been deducted from the wages paid to the person pursuant to the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (1) of the Premiums Collection Act.
厚生労働省令で定める書類に基づき、第九条の規定による被保険者となつたことの確認があつた日の二年前の日より前に徴収法第三十二条第一項の規定により被保険者の負担すべき額に相当する額がその者に支払われた賃金から控除されていたことが明らかである時期があること。
第二十三条
Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, the prescribed duration of benefits for specific qualified recipients (limited to those with the basic period for calculation prescribed in paragraph (3) of the preceding Article (hereinafter simply referred to as "basic period for calculation" in this Article) of one year or more (or of five years or more for the specific qualified recipients listed in item (v))) is to be the number of days specified in the following items, in accordance with the classification of the specific qualified recipients listed in those items:
specific qualified recipients who are 60 years old or older and under 65 years old on the basis day: the number of days specified in the following sub-items (a) through (d), in accordance with the classification of the basic periods for calculation listed in those sub-items (a) through (d):
twenty years or more:240 days;
二十年以上 二百四十日
ten years or more and less than twenty years:210 days;
十年以上二十年未満 二百十日
five years or more and less than ten years:180 days; and
五年以上十年未満 百八十日
one year or more and less than five years:150 days;
一年以上五年未満 百五十日
specific qualified recipients who are 45 years old or older and under 60 years old on the basis day: the number of days specified in the following sub-items (a) through (d), in accordance with the classification of the basic periods for calculation listed in those subitems (a) through (d):
twenty years or more:330 days;
二十年以上 三百三十日
ten years or more and less than twenty years:270 days;
十年以上二十年未満 二百七十日
five years or more and less than ten years:240 days; and
五年以上十年未満 二百四十日
one year or more and less than five years:180 days.
一年以上五年未満 百八十日
specific qualified recipients who are 35 years old or older and under 45 years old on the basis day: the number of days specified in the following sub-items (a) through (d), in accordance with the classification of the basic periods for calculation listed in those sub-items (a) through (d):
twenty years or more:270 days;
二十年以上 二百七十日
ten years or more and less than twenty years:240 days; and
十年以上二十年未満 二百四十日
five years or more and less than ten years:180 days.
五年以上十年未満 百八十日
one year or more and less than five years:150 days;
一年以上五年未満 百五十日
specific qualified recipients who are 30 years old or older and under 35 years old on the basis day: the number of days specified in the following sub-items (a) through (d), in accordance with the classification of the basic periods for calculation listed in those sub-items (a) through (d):
twenty years or more:240 days;
二十年以上 二百四十日
ten years or more and less than twenty years:210 days; and
十年以上二十年未満 二百十日
five years or more and less than ten years:180 days.
五年以上十年未満 百八十日
one year or more and less than five years:120 days;
一年以上五年未満 百二十日
specific qualified recipients who are under 30 years old on the basis day: the number of days specified in the following sub-item (a) or (b), in accordance with the classification of the basic periods for calculation listed in those sub-item (a) or (b):
ten years or more:180 days; and
十年以上 百八十日
five years or more and less than ten years:120 days.
五年以上十年未満 百二十日
The specific qualified recipients set forth in the preceding paragraph are qualified recipients who fall under either of the following items (excluding qualified recipients prescribed in paragraph (2) of the preceding Article):
persons whose separation from service pertaining to recipient qualification for the basic allowance has been designated by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as having accompanied the insolvency (meaning the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings, commencement of rehabilitation proceedings, commencement of reorganization proceedings, an application for the commencement of special liquidation or other situations falling under reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; the same applies in Article 57, paragraph (2), item (i) and Article 60-4, paragraph (2), item (i)) that occurred with regard to the undertaking by an employer who has been employing the persons, or the downsizing or discontinuance of a covered undertaking by the employer;
当該基本手当の受給資格に係る離職が、その者を雇用していた事業主の事業について発生した倒産（破産手続開始、再生手続開始、更生手続開始又は特別清算開始の申立てその他厚生労働省令で定める事由に該当する事態をいう。第五十七条第二項第一号及び第六十条の四第二項第一号において同じ。）又は当該事業主の適用事業の縮小若しくは廃止に伴うものである者として厚生労働省令で定めるもの
beyond what is set forth in the preceding item, persons who have been dismissed (excluding those who have been dismissed for serious grounds attributable to themselves; the same applies in Article 57, paragraph (2), item (ii) and Article 60-4, paragraph (2), item (ii)) or separated from service for other reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
前号に定めるもののほか、解雇（自己の責めに帰すべき重大な理由によるものを除く。第五十七条第二項第二号及び第六十条の四第二項第二号において同じ。）その他の厚生労働省令で定める理由により離職した者