Article 58Payment of an Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Service Plan

①A Municipality, when an Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support receives from a person designated by the mayor of said Municipality (or, for Preventive Long-Term Care Support for an Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support to Whom the Domicile Exception Applies, the Municipality Where the Facility Is Located) (herein referred to as "Designated Preventive Long-Term Care Support Provider") the Preventive Long-Term Care Support provided by a provider that performs the Preventive Long-Term Care Support Business pertaining to said designation (herein referred to as "Designated Preventive Long-Term Care Support"), pays to said Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support an Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Service Plan for the expenses required for said Designated Preventive Long-Term Care Support.

②The amount of the Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Service Plan is to be the amount of expenses calculated by standards as prescribed by the Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare after considering the average expenses necessary for Designated Support for Prevention of Long-Term Care that is calculated after considering the area, etc., where a provider that performs the Designated Support for Prevention of Long-Term Care Business is located (in a case when said calculated amount exceeds the actual expenses necessary for said Designated Support for Prevention of Long-Term Care, the allowance are to be the actual expenses necessary for said Designated Support for Prevention of Long-Term Care).

③The Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare, when it intends to provide standards as prescribed in the items of the preceding paragraph, must hear opinions of the Social Security Council in advance.

④When an Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support receives Designated Support for Prevention of Long-Term Care from a Designated Provider of Preventive Support of Long-Term Care (limited to a case when said Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support has notified in advance the Municipality pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare of receipt of said Designated Support for Prevention of Long-Term Care), a Municipality may pay the expenses required for said Designated Support for Prevention of Long-Term Care that said Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support should pay to said Designated Provider of Support for Prevention of Long-Term Care, to said Designated Provider of Preventive Support of Long-Term Care on behalf of said Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support within the limit of the amount to be paid to said Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support as an Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Service Plan.

⑤When the expenses are paid pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, it is to be deemed that an Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Service Plan is paid to said Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support.

⑦The provisions of Article 41, paragraph (2), paragraph (3), paragraph (10), and paragraph (11) apply mutatis mutandis to the payment of an Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Service Plan and the provisions of paragraph (8) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to a Designated Provider of Preventive Support of Long-Term Care. In this case, the necessary technical replacement of terms in these provisions is provided by a Cabinet Order.

⑧In addition to those provisions as prescribed in each of the preceding paragraphs, other necessary matters payment of an Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Service Plan and the request of an Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Service Plan by a Designated Provider of Preventive Support of Long-Term Care are to be as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare.