Article 101-42Procedures for Application for Payment of Post-Birth Leave Support Benefits

①When an insured person intends to receive payment of post-birth leave support benefits, the insured person must, together with the procedures prescribed in Article 101-30 or Article 101-33, submit to the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the location of its place of business, via the employer, the childcare leave-related benefits qualification confirmation form and first childcare leave benefits / post-birth leave support benefits application or the childcare leave-related benefits qualification confirmation form and parental leave benefits / post-birth leave support benefits application, attaching documents capable of proving that the spouse of that insured person falls under Article 61-10, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Act or paragraph (2) of that Article.

②Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, an insured person who has come to be able to receive payment of post-birth leave support benefits after the end of the procedures prescribed in Article 101-30 or Article 101-33 must, when intending to receive that payment, within 10 days counting from the day following the day on which the person came to be able to receive that payment, submit to the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the location of its place of business, via the employer, a written application stating the insured person's name, address or residence, insured person number, Individual Number, the first day of the leave pertaining to the application for post-birth leave, and other matters specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau (hereinafter referred to as the "application for post-birth leave support benefits" in this Article), attaching documents capable of proving that the spouse of that insured person falls under Article 61-10, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Act or paragraph (2) of that Article.

③Notwithstanding the preceding two paragraphs, where it is difficult, for an unavoidable reason, to submit via the employer the childcare leave-related benefits qualification confirmation form and first childcare leave benefits / post-birth leave support benefits application, the childcare leave-related benefits qualification confirmation form and parental leave benefits / post-birth leave support benefits application, or the application for post-birth leave support benefits (hereinafter collectively referred to as the "applications for post-birth leave support benefits, etc."), the submission may be made without going via the employer.

④Notwithstanding paragraph (1), where an insured person wishes to carry out the procedures for application for payment of post-birth leave support benefits without going via the employer, the insured person may, during the period from the day on which the procedures prescribed in Article 101-30 or Article 101-33 were completed until the end of the month containing the day on which four months have passed counting from the day on which that insured person started post-birth leave, submit to the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office having jurisdiction over the location of the employer's place of business the application for post-birth leave support benefits, attaching documents capable of proving that the spouse of that insured person falls under Article 61-10, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Act or paragraph (2) of that Article.

⑤Notwithstanding the preceding four paragraphs, an insured person may, as provided by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, omit attaching the documents prescribed in them.

⑥When the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office finds that an insured person who has submitted the applications for post-birth leave support benefits, etc. pursuant to the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (4) falls under Article 61-10, paragraph (1) of the Act, the Chief must notify that insured person to the effect that post-birth leave support benefits are to be paid.

⑦A notification under paragraphs (1) and (2) (limited to one submitted via the employer) is, where that employer is the employer of a place of business of a specified corporation, to be made by submitting the matters to be stated in those documents, using an electronic data processing system, in lieu of submitting the applications for post-birth leave support benefits, etc. and the documents prescribed in paragraphs (1) and (2); provided, however, that this does not apply where it is found difficult to use an electronic data processing system due to a breakdown of a telecommunications line, a disaster or other reason, and where it is found that the notification can be made without using an electronic data processing system.

⑧The provisions of paragraph (5) apply mutatis mutandis to the case of the preceding paragraph.