A prevention benefit is to an insurance benefit listed in the following:

①A Municipality, when an Insured Person who has received a Certification of Needed Support and receives support at home (hereinafter referred to as an "Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support") has received, from a person designated by the prefectural governor (hereinafter referred to as a "Designated Provider of Preventive Long-Term Care Service"), Preventive Long-Term Care Service provided by a Business Office conducting the Preventive Long-Term Care Service Business pertaining to said designation (hereinafter referred to as "Designated Preventive Long-Term Care Service") (limited to a case when said Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support has notified a Municipality in advance, pursuant to the provisions of Article 58, paragraph (4), of receiving Designated Preventive Long-Term Care Support prescribed in paragraph (1) of the same Article and said Designated Preventive Long-Term Care Service is subject to said Designated Preventive Long-Term Care Support, or other cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare), pays to said Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support an Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Service for the expenses required for said Designated Preventive Long-Term Care Service (excluding the expenses required to purchase Specified Equipment for Preventive Long-Term Care Covered by Public Aid and, with regard to the expenses required for Outpatient Rehabilitation for Preventive Long-Term Care, Short-Term Admission for Daily Preventive Long-Term Care, Short-Term Admission for Recuperation for Preventive Long-Term Care, and Daily Preventive Long-Term Care Admitted to a Specified Facility, the expenses necessary to provide meals, stay and other expenses necessary for daily life as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; the same applies hereinafter in this Article); provided, however, that this does not apply when said Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support, in a case where he or she has been issued a designation pursuant to the provisions of Article 37, paragraph (1), receives Preventive Long-Term Care Service other than the type pertaining to said designation.

②The amount of Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Service is to according to the categories of Preventive Service of Long-Term Care listed in each item of the following and the amount as prescribed in said items:

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

④When an Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support receives Designated Preventive Service of Long-Term Care from a Designated Provider of a Preventive Service to Long-Term Care, a Municipality may pay the expenses required for said Designated Preventive Service of Long-Term Care that said Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support should pay to said Designated Provider of a Preventive Service to Long-Term Care to said Designated Provider of a Preventive Service to 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.

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

⑥A Municipality, when a Designated Provider of a Preventive Service to Long-Term Care requests an Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Service, pays after conducting an examination according to standards provided by the Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare as set forth in each item of paragraph (2), standards concerning effective support methods for prevention of long-term care pertaining to the Designated Preventive Service of Long-Term Care as prescribed in Article 115-4, paragraph (2), and standards concerning facilities and management of a Designated Preventive Service to Long-Term Care Business (limited to the part concerning the handling of Designated Preventive Service of Long-Term Care).

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

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

①A Municipality, in the following cases, pays an Exceptional Allowance for Preventive Service of Long-Term Care to an Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support:

②A prefecture, in establishing the Prefectural Ordinance set forth in item (ii) of the preceding paragraph, is to establish the matters listed in items (i) through (iii) in accordance with the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, is to establish the matters listed in item (iv) using the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as the standard, and is to take into consideration the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare for other matters.

③The amount of Exceptional Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Service is to be determined by a Municipality based on the amount equivalent to 90 percent of the amount of expenses calculated based on standards provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as set forth in each item of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article pertaining to said Preventive Long-Term Care Service or equivalent service (when the calculated amount exceeds the actual expenses required for said Preventive Long-Term Care Service or equivalent service (except for the expenses required to purchase Specified Equipment for Preventive Long-Term Care Covered by Public Aid and excluding the expenses necessary to provide meals, residence, and other expenses as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as necessary for daily life with regard to the expenses required for Outpatient Rehabilitation for Preventive Long-Term Care, Short-Term Admission for Daily Preventive Long-Term Care, Short-Term Admission for Recuperation for Preventive Long-Term Care and Daily Preventive Long-Term Care Admitted to a Specified Facility, and services equivalent to these), said calculated amount is to be the actual expenses required for said Preventive Long-Term Care Service or equivalent service).

④The mayor of a Municipality, when he or she determines the necessity of payment of an Exceptional Allowance for Preventive Service of Long-Term Care, may order a person that has been in charge of the Preventive Service of Long-Term Care pertaining to said payment or equivalent service (herein referred to as "Person, etc., in Charge of Providing Preventive Long-Term Care Service" in this paragraph) to report, submit, or present record books and documents, appear, or direct personnel to question the relevant Person or enter the Business Office of the provider of said Person, etc., in Charge of said Preventive Service of Long-Term Care pertaining to said payment in order to inspect said equipment, record books and documents, and other items.

⑤The provisions of Article 24, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to questions or inspections as prescribed in the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of paragraph (4) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to the authority granted as prescribed in the preceding paragraph.