Where job-seeking expenses are paid by the employer of the visited business establishment, if the amount paid is less than the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two Articles, an amount equivalent to the difference is to be paid as wide-area job-seeking activity expenses.

①When a qualified recipient, etc. intends to receive payment of wide-area job-seeking activity expenses, the recipient must, within 10 days counting from the day following the day on which the wide-area job-seeking activities as directed by the Public Employment Security Office ended, submit to the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office, accompanied by the qualified recipient's certificate, etc. (or, where a qualified recipient, an elderly qualified recipient or a specially qualified recipient has been issued a notice of recipient qualification, a notice of recipient qualification for the elderly or a special recipient qualification notice, respectively, by presenting an Individual Number Card), a written application stating the name and domicile or residence of that qualified recipient, etc., the name and location of the visited business establishment and other matters specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau (referred to as the "written application for job-seeking activity support expenses (wide-area job-seeking activity expenses)" in paragraph (3)).

②The Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office may order a qualified recipient, etc. who intends to receive payment of wide-area job-seeking activity expenses to submit documents capable of proving that the recipient engaged in wide-area job-seeking activities and other necessary documents.

③When a qualified recipient, etc. submits the written application for job-seeking activity support expenses (wide-area job-seeking activity expenses), if the recipient receives job-seeking expenses from the employer of the visited business establishment, the recipient must notify the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office of the amount.

④The proviso to Article 22, paragraph (1) applies mutatis mutandis to the qualified recipient's certificate, etc. referred to in paragraph (1) (or, where a qualified recipient, an elderly qualified recipient or a specially qualified recipient has been issued a notice of recipient qualification, a notice of recipient qualification for the elderly or a special recipient qualification notice, respectively, the Individual Number Card).

When the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office has decided to pay wide-area job-seeking activity expenses to a qualified recipient, etc., the Chief is to pay the wide-area job-seeking activity expenses within seven days counting from the day following that day.

Short-term training attendance expenses are to be paid, in accordance with the standards specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, where a qualified recipient, etc. has taken, in accordance with the vocational guidance of a Public Employment Security Office, educational training concerning an occupation necessary for promoting re-employment and has completed that educational training (limited to a case where the recipient commenced that educational training after the period under Article 21 of the Act has elapsed), and has not received payment of educational training benefits for the expenses paid for taking that educational training (limited to the admission fee (meaning the fee paid at the start of attendance; the same applies hereinafter) and the tuition fee; the same applies in the following Article and Article 100-4).

The amount of short-term training attendance expenses is to be the amount obtained by multiplying the amount of the expenses paid by a qualified recipient, etc. for taking the educational training prescribed in the preceding Article by 20/100 (where that amount exceeds 100,000 yen, 100,000 yen).

①When a qualified recipient, etc. intends to receive payment of short-term training attendance expenses, the recipient must, within one month counting from the day following the day on which the recipient completed the educational training pertaining to payment of those short-term training attendance expenses, submit to the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office, accompanied by the documents listed in the following items and the qualified recipient's certificate, etc. (or, where a qualified recipient, an elderly qualified recipient or a specially qualified recipient has been issued a notice of recipient qualification, a notice of recipient qualification for the elderly or a special recipient qualification notice, respectively, by attaching the documents listed in the following items and presenting an Individual Number Card), a written application for job-seeking activity support expenses (short-term training attendance expenses) (Form No. 32-3).

②The proviso to Article 22, paragraph (1) applies mutatis mutandis to the qualified recipient's certificate, etc. referred to in the preceding paragraph (or, where a qualified recipient, an elderly qualified recipient or a specially qualified recipient has been issued a notice of recipient qualification, a notice of recipient qualification for the elderly or a special recipient qualification notice, respectively, the Individual Number Card).

When the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office has decided to pay short-term training attendance expenses to a qualified recipient, etc., the Chief is to pay the short-term training attendance expenses within seven days counting from the day following that day.

Expenses for using services for job-seeking activities are to be paid where a qualified recipient, etc. uses, in relation to the recipient's child, the services listed in the following items (hereinafter referred to as "childcare and similar services") in order to have an interview, etc. with a job offerer, or to take educational training pertaining to payment of educational training benefits under Article 60-2, paragraph (1) of the Act, educational training pertaining to payment of short-term training attendance expenses, public vocational training, etc., or authorized vocational training prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (2) of the Act on Support for the Employment of Specified Job Seekers through Implementation of Vocational Training, etc. (Act No. 47 of 2011) (each of these types of training is referred to as "training covered by the expenses for using services for job-seeking activities" in the following Article and Article 100-8) (limited to a case where the recipient uses childcare and similar services after the period under Article 21 of the Act has elapsed).

The amount of expenses for using services for job-seeking activities is to be the amount obtained by multiplying by 80/100 the amount of the expenses borne by a qualified recipient, etc. for using childcare and similar services (meaning, within the limit of the number of days specified in the relevant item in accordance with the classification of cases listed in the following items, the amount of the expenses pertaining to the days on which the qualified recipient, etc. had an interview, etc. with a job offerer or took training covered by the expenses for using services for job-seeking activities (limited to 8,000 yen per day); and where the expenses have been borne in units of a period exceeding one day, that amount of expenses is limited to the amount calculated on a daily basis, based on the number of days of that period (limited to 8,000 yen per day)).

①When a qualified recipient, etc. intends to receive payment of expenses for using services for job-seeking activities, the recipient must submit to the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office a written application for job-seeking activity support expenses (expenses for using services for job-seeking activities) (Form No. 32-4), accompanied by the documents listed in the following items and the qualified recipient's certificate, etc. (or, where a qualified recipient, an elderly qualified recipient or a specially qualified recipient has been issued a notice of recipient qualification, a notice of recipient qualification for the elderly or a special recipient qualification notice, respectively, by attaching the documents listed in the following items and presenting an Individual Number Card).

②The proviso to Article 22, paragraph (1) applies mutatis mutandis to the qualified recipient's certificate, etc. referred to in the preceding paragraph (or, where a qualified recipient, an elderly qualified recipient or a specially qualified recipient has been issued a notice of recipient qualification, a notice of recipient qualification for the elderly or a special recipient qualification notice, respectively, the Individual Number Card).

③The written application for job-seeking activity support expenses (expenses for using services for job-seeking activities) under paragraph (1) must be submitted, for the day subject to recognition of unemployment under Article 15, paragraph (3) or (4) of the Act, on the day on which the person receives that recognition of unemployment; provided, however, that where an elderly qualified recipient, a specially qualified recipient or a qualified day worker recipient submits the written application for job-seeking activity support expenses (expenses for using services for job-seeking activities), it is to be made within four months counting from the day following the day on which the person used the childcare and similar services pertaining to payment of those expenses for using services for job-seeking activities.

The provisions of Article 22, paragraph (2), Article 44, Article 45, paragraph (1), Article 46, Article 50, paragraph (4) and Article 54 apply mutatis mutandis to payment of employment promotion benefits.