Section 1 General Rules

①A person who intends to claim payment of benefits for unemployment, etc. under Article 10-3, paragraph (1) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as a "person claiming unpaid benefits") must, within six months counting from the day following the day on which the deceased qualified recipient, elderly qualified recipient, specially qualified recipient, qualified day worker recipient or person eligible to receive payment of employment promotion benefits, educational training benefits or continuous employment benefits (hereinafter referred to as "qualified recipients, etc." in this Section) died, submit to the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office of the deceased a written claim for unpaid benefits for unemployment, etc. (Form No. 10-4), with documents capable of proving the fact and the date of death of that qualified recipient, etc., documents capable of proving the relationship between the person claiming unpaid benefits and the deceased qualified recipient, etc., and documents capable of proving that the person claiming unpaid benefits had shared a livelihood with the deceased qualified recipient, etc. attached. In this case, where those benefits for unemployment, etc. fall under any of the following items (excluding the case where the deceased qualified recipient, elderly qualified recipient, specially qualified recipient, or person eligible to receive payment of employment promotion benefits or educational training benefits has been issued the notice of recipient qualification prescribed in Article 19, paragraph (3), the notice of recipient qualification for the elderly prescribed in Article 65-4, paragraph (1), the special recipient qualification notice prescribed in Article 68, paragraph (1) or the notice of educational training recipient qualification prescribed in Article 101-2-13, paragraph (2), respectively), the person must attach the documents specified in that item according to the category of benefits for unemployment, etc. listed in that item:

②In the case of the second sentence of the preceding paragraph, where there are legitimate grounds why the documents specified in the items of the preceding paragraph cannot be submitted, those documents may be omitted.

③When submitting the written claim for unpaid benefits for unemployment, etc., a person claiming unpaid benefits must make the notifications or submit the documents that the deceased qualified recipient, etc. would have been required to make or submit had the qualified recipient, etc. received payment of the benefits for unemployment, etc.

④A person claiming unpaid benefits may have an agent make the claim under this Article (excluding the case falling under Article 47, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 65, Article 65-5, Article 69, Article 77 and Article 101-2-28)). In this case, the agent must submit to the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office referred to in paragraph (1) the documents proving the agent's authority, with the documents prescribed in paragraph (1) and the preceding paragraph attached.

When the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office of the deceased has decided on payment of benefits for unemployment, etc. to a person claiming unpaid benefits, the Chief is to pay those benefits for unemployment, etc. within seven days counting from the day following that day.

①The Chief of the Public Employment Security Office of the deceased may, where finding it necessary on the application of a person claiming unpaid benefits, entrust the affairs concerning payment of benefits for unemployment, etc. to be conducted for that person to another Chief of the Public Employment Security Office.

②Where entrustment has been made pursuant to the preceding paragraph, notwithstanding Article 1, paragraph (5), item (v), the affairs concerning benefits for unemployment, etc. conducted for the person claiming unpaid benefits pertaining to that entrustment are to be conducted by the Chief of the Public Employment Security Office who received the entrustment.

③For the application of the provisions of the preceding two Articles in the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the phrase "Public Employment Security Office of the deceased" in those provisions is deemed to be replaced with "Public Employment Security Office that received the entrustment".

①Where collecting an amount ordered to be returned or paid pursuant to Article 10-4, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Act, the revenue collecting officer of the Labor Insurance Special Account of the Prefectural Labor Bureau (hereinafter referred to as the "revenue collecting officer" in the following Article) must designate a due date and give notice of payment.

②A person who has received notice of payment pursuant to the preceding paragraph must pay the amount pertaining to that notice of payment, by the designated due date, to the Bank of Japan (meaning its head office, branches, agencies and revenue agencies) or the revenue officer of the Labor Insurance Special Account of the Prefectural Labor Bureau (hereinafter referred to as the "revenue officer" in Article 17-7).

When issuing a written demand pursuant to Article 27, paragraph (2) of the Act on the Collection, etc. of Insurance Premiums of Labor Insurance (Act No. 84 of 1969; hereinafter referred to as the "Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act") as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 10-4, paragraph (3) of the Act, the revenue collecting officer must designate a payment due date within 14 days pursuant to Article 27, paragraph (1) of the Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act.

A revenue officer who seizes property for a disposition for delinquency pursuant to Article 27, paragraph (3) of the Labor Insurance Premium Collection Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 10-4, paragraph (3) of the Act must carry an identification card (Form No. 11-5) and present it to the persons concerned.