Where a person claiming unpaid benefits is a person prescribed in Article 31, paragraph (1) of the Act, that person must appear at the Public Employment Security Office of the deceased, submit a written claim for unpaid benefits for unemployment, etc., and then receive recognition of unemployment for the deceased qualified recipient; provided, however, that where the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office of the deceased finds that there is an unavoidable reason, that person's agent may appear at the Public Employment Security Office of the deceased, submit documents capable of proving the agent's capacity, and then receive that recognition of unemployment.
未支給給付請求者が法第三十一条第一項に規定する者であるときは、死亡者に係る公共職業安定所に出頭し、未支給失業等給付請求書を提出した上、死亡した受給資格者について失業の認定を受けなければならない。ただし、死亡者に係る公共職業安定所の長がやむを得ない理由があると認めるときは、その者の代理人が死亡者に係る公共職業安定所に出頭し、その資格を証明することができる書類を提出した上、当該失業の認定を受けることができる。
When the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office of the deceased has conducted recognition of unemployment for a qualified recipient, the Chief must enter the matters concerning that disposition in the qualified recipient's certificate and return it (or, where that qualified recipient has been issued a notice of recipient qualification, enter the matters concerning that disposition in the notice of recipient qualification and deliver it).
死亡者に係る公共職業安定所の長は、受給資格者に対して失業の認定を行つたときは、その処分に関する事項を受給資格者証に記載した上、返付（当該受給資格者が受給資格通知の交付を受けた場合にあつては、受給資格通知にその処分に関する事項を記載した上、交付）しなければならない。
The provisions of Article 17-4, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the cases under the preceding two paragraphs.
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qualified recipientmachine translation
「受給資格者」
A person who holds the recipient qualification (受給資格) of Article 14, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Employment Insurance Act — the qualification to receive the basic allowance (基本手当).
Short name set inArticle 1, paragraph (5), item (i)
Public Employment Security Office of the deceasedmachine translation
「死亡者に係る公共職業安定所」
The Public Employment Security Office (公共職業安定所) serving the place where a deceased qualified recipient, insured day worker or other person entitled to benefits lived when they died, whose chief handles claims for the benefits they had not been paid.
Short name set inArticle 1, paragraph (5), item (v)
person claiming unpaid benefitsmachine translation
「未支給給付請求者」
A person who claims, under Article 10-3, paragraph (1) of the Employment Insurance Act, the benefits for unemployment, etc. (失業等給付) that a qualified recipient or other recipient who has died had not yet been paid.
Short name set inArticle 17-2, paragraph (1)
qualified recipient's certificatemachine translation
「受給資格者証」
The employment insurance qualified recipient's certificate (Form No. 11) that the Public Employment Security Office (公共職業安定所) issues to a qualified recipient (受給資格者), filled in with the matters needed for paying them the basic allowance (基本手当).
Short name set inArticle 17-2, paragraph (1), item (i)
notice of recipient qualificationmachine translation
「受給資格通知」
The employment insurance notice of recipient qualification, which a person who showed their Individual Number Card (個人番号カード) when submitting their separation slip (離職票) can ask for in place of the qualified recipient's certificate, giving their name, insured person number, sex, date of birth, reason for separation, daily basic allowance amount, prescribed duration of benefits, how their benefits are being handled and the other matters the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau (職業安定局長) sets.
Short name set inArticle 19, paragraph (3)