The criteria specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act are that all of the following items are satisfied:

For the application of Article 48-5, paragraph (1) and Article 85-5, paragraph (1) where Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act applies, the phrase "Article 25, paragraph (4), and Article 27, paragraph (3) of the Act" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 25, paragraph (4), and Article 27, paragraph (3) of the Act and Article 5, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act", and the phrase "Article 25, paragraph (4) and Article 27, paragraph (3) of the Act" with "Article 25, paragraph (4) and Article 27, paragraph (3) of the Act and Article 5, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act".

When the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office has decided to pay basic allowance to a qualified recipient pursuant to Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act, the Chief is to notify that qualified recipient to that effect and enter the necessary particulars in the qualified recipient's certificate (or, where that qualified recipient has been issued a notice of recipient qualification, in the notice of recipient qualification).

The persons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 10, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act are persons who have separated from service for the reason set out in Article 19-2, item (i).

For a person to whom Article 11 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act applies (including a person deemed to be a person prescribed in Article 11 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act pursuant to Article 4, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act (Act No. 13 of 2014)), the phrase "three years" in the provisions of Article 101-2-7, items (i) through (iii) is deemed to be replaced with "one year", and the phrase "three years" in the provisions of items (iv) through (vi) of that Article with "two years".

The persons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 11-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act are persons set out in Article 101-2-7, item (iv) as read pursuant to the preceding Article (excluding persons for whom the period added pursuant to Article 101-2-5, paragraph (1) exceeds four years, and persons who have taken and completed (including persons who are taking) the educational training of an educational training course that provides educational training at night or any other educational training course that enables a person to take educational training while continuing to work), who have not received, before the basis day prescribed in Article 60-2, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Act, the educational training support benefits prescribed in Article 11-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act (hereinafter referred to as "educational training support benefits") (excluding persons who are not expected to complete the specialized practical educational training and other persons specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare).

The educational training specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 11-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act is the specialized practical educational training prescribed in Article 101-2-7, item (iv).

①A person who intends to receive payment of educational training support benefits (hereinafter referred to as a "prospective recipient of educational training support benefits") must, no later than 14 days before the day on which the person starts specialized practical educational training (for a prospective recipient of educational training support benefits who ceased to be a generally insured person after the day one month before the day on which the person starts that specialized practical educational training, by the day on which one month has passed from the day following the day on which the person ceased to be a generally insured person), appear at the competent Public Employment Security Office and submit an educational training benefits and educational training support benefits qualification confirmation form, attaching the documents set out in the following items and a driver's license or other document capable of confirming that the person is the prospective recipient of educational training support benefits themselves, or presenting an Individual Number Card together with attaching the documents set out in the following items.

②Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, a prospective recipient of educational training support benefits may, as provided by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau, omit to attach those of the documents set out in item (ii) of that paragraph that are specified by the Director-General of the Employment Security Bureau.

③When the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office finds that a prospective recipient of educational training support benefits who has submitted the educational training benefits and educational training support benefits qualification confirmation form falls under the first sentence of Article 11-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act, the Chief must, for the payment unit period (excluding payment unit periods pertaining to an application for payment already made), determine the day on which the person is to receive recognition of unemployment pertaining to the payment of those educational training support benefits and notify that prospective recipient of educational training support benefits thereof, and must enter the necessary particulars in an educational training benefits and educational training support benefits qualified recipient's certificate (or, for a prospective recipient of educational training support benefits who made the submission under paragraph (1) by presenting an Individual Number Card and who wishes to be issued a notice of educational training recipient qualification, the notice of educational training recipient qualification) and issue it.

④In this Article and Article 30 of the Supplementary Provisions, "payment unit period" means one of the periods obtained when the period during which the person is taking specialized practical educational training is divided into periods running from the day on which two months have passed counting from the day on which the person started that specialized practical educational training (for a person qualified to receive educational training support benefits who ceased to be a generally insured person after the day one month before the day on which the person starts that specialized practical educational training, the day on which the recipient qualification pertaining to educational training support benefits was determined pursuant to the preceding paragraph), or from each day that corresponds to that day every two months during the period of taking that specialized practical educational training and falls within the period of taking that specialized practical educational training (in a month with no corresponding day, the last day of that month; hereinafter referred to as a "corresponding training commencement day" in this paragraph), respectively up to the day before the corresponding training commencement day two months thereafter (for the month in which the day on which that specialized practical educational training ended falls, the day on which that specialized practical educational training ended).

⑤The amount of educational training support benefits is, for one payment unit period, the amount obtained by multiplying the amount calculated pursuant to Article 11-2, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act by the number of days specified in each of the following items according to the categories of payment unit periods set out in those items (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "number of payment days"):

⑥In determining the day on which the person is to receive recognition of unemployment pertaining to the payment of educational training support benefits prescribed in paragraph (3), the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office must, for one payment unit period, determine it within a scope not exceeding one month counting from the day following the last day of that payment unit period; provided, however, that this does not apply where the Chief of the competent Public Employment Security Office finds it necessary.

①A person qualified to receive educational training support benefits who seeks to receive recognition of unemployment pertaining to payment of educational training support benefits must, on the day on which the person is to receive that recognition of unemployment pertaining to payment of those educational training support benefits, appear at the competent Public Employment Security Office and submit a certificate of attendance for educational training support benefits (Form No. 33-2-9), attaching the educational training benefits and educational training support benefits qualified recipient's certificate (for a person who has been subject to determination of recipient qualification for basic allowance (excluding where the person has been issued a notice of recipient qualification), together with the qualified recipient's certificate; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) (or, where that person has been issued a notice of educational training recipient qualification, presenting the Individual Number Card); provided, however, that where there are legitimate grounds for being unable to submit it attaching the educational training benefits and educational training support benefits qualified recipient's certificate (or, where that person has been issued a notice of educational training recipient qualification, presenting the Individual Number Card), the person may do so without attaching the educational training benefits and educational training support benefits qualified recipient's certificate (or, where that person has been issued a notice of educational training recipient qualification, without presenting the Individual Number Card).

②Recognition of unemployment pertaining to payment of educational training support benefits under the preceding paragraph must be conducted on the day on which that person is to receive recognition of unemployment pertaining to payment of those educational training support benefits as prescribed in paragraph (3) of the preceding Article; provided, however, that this does not apply where there are unavoidable reasons, such as a natural disaster, for not having been able to receive recognition of unemployment pertaining to payment of those educational training support benefits.

③The provisions of Article 31, paragraphs (4) and (5) apply mutatis mutandis to recognition of unemployment in the case of the proviso to the preceding paragraph.