# 雇用保険法 / Employment Insurance Act — 第十三条 (Article 13) - Law: 雇用保険法 (Employment Insurance Act), 昭和四十九年法律第百十六号 - English title "Employment Insurance Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第十三条 (Article 13)（基本手当の受給資格） — address `art-13` - Text in force since: 2026-05-13 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-13 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-13 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十三条（基本手当の受給資格） — (Recipient Qualification for Basic Allowance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-13 **第一項** 基本手当は、被保険者が失業した場合において、離職の日以前二年間（当該期間に疾病、負傷その他厚生労働省令で定める理由により引き続き三十日以上賃金の支払を受けることができなかつた被保険者については、当該理由により賃金の支払を受けることができなかつた日数を二年に加算した期間（その期間が四年を超えるときは、四年間）。第十七条第一項において「算定対象期間」という。）に、次条の規定による被保険者期間が通算して十二箇月以上であつたときに、この款の定めるところにより、支給する。 art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-13/par-1 The basic allowance is to be paid pursuant to the provisions of this Subsection, where an insured person who becomes unemployed has been insured for a total period of 12 months or more during the two-year period preceding the day of separation from service, pursuant to the provisions of the following Article (for insured persons who were unable to receive payment of wages for 30 or more consecutive days during that period due to disease, injury or other reasons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, during the period of two years added to the number of days for which they were unable to receive payment of wages due to those reasons (where the aggregate period exceeds four years, four years); referred to as the "period for calculation" in Article 17, paragraph (1)). machine translation, not official **第二項** 特定理由離職者及び第二十三条第二項各号のいずれかに該当する者（前項の規定により基本手当の支給を受けることができる資格を有することとなる者を除く。）に対する前項の規定の適用については、同項中「二年間」とあるのは「一年間」と、「二年に」とあるのは「一年に」と、「十二箇月」とあるのは「六箇月」とする。 art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-13/par-2 With regard to the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph to persons separated from service for specific reasons and persons who fall under any of the items of Article 23, paragraph (2) (excluding persons who come to have the qualification to receive payment of the basic allowance pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph), the phrase "two-year period" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "one-year period", the phrase "period of two years" with "period of one year", and the term "12 months" with "six months". machine translation, not official **第三項** 前項の特定理由離職者とは、離職した者のうち、第二十三条第二項各号のいずれかに該当する者以外の者であつて、期間の定めのある労働契約の期間が満了し、かつ、当該労働契約の更新がないこと（その者が当該更新を希望したにもかかわらず、当該更新についての合意が成立するに至らなかつた場合に限る。）その他のやむを得ない理由により離職したものとして厚生労働省令で定める者をいう。 art-13/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-13/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-13/par-3 The persons separated from service for specific reasons set forth in the preceding paragraph are persons who have been separated from service, other than those who fall under any of the items of Article 23, paragraph (2), and who are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as persons whose separation from service was due to the expiration of the term of a labor contract with a fixed term without the labor contract being renewed (limited to the case where no agreement on the renewal was reached even though the person wished for the renewal) or other unavoidable reasons. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-13/par-1: 第十七条第一項 → 雇用保険法 第十七条第一項 (Article 17, paragraph (1)), art-17/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-17/par-1 - art-13/par-1: 次条 → 雇用保険法 第十四条 (Article 14), art-14 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-14 - art-13/par-2: 第二十三条第二項 → 雇用保険法 第二十三条第二項 (Article 23, paragraph (2)), art-23/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-23/par-2 - art-13/par-2: 前項 → 雇用保険法 第十三条第一項 (Article 13, paragraph (1)), art-13/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-13/par-1 - art-13/par-3: 前項 → 雇用保険法 第十三条第二項 (Article 13, paragraph (2)), art-13/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-13/par-2 - art-13/par-3: 第二十三条第二項 → 雇用保険法 第二十三条第二項 (Article 23, paragraph (2)), art-23/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-23/par-2 ## Cited by 12 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 雇用保険法 第十三条第二項（基本手当の受給資格） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-13/par-2 - 雇用保険法 第十三条第三項（基本手当の受給資格） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-13/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-13/par-3 - 雇用保険法 第十四条第二項第一号（被保険者期間） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-14/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-14/par-2/item-1 - 雇用保険法 第十四条第三項（被保険者期間） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-14/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-14/par-3 - 雇用保険法 第二十四条の二第一項（個別延長給付） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-24-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-24-2/par-1 - 雇用保険法 第三十七条の三第一項（高年齢受給資格） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-37-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-37-3/par-1 - 雇用保険法 第三十九条第一項（特例受給資格） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-39/par-1 - 雇用保険法 第七十二条第一項（労働政策審議会への諮問） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-72/par-1 - 雇用保険法 附則第四条第一項（基本手当の支給に関する暫定措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/suppl-3491-116/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/suppl-3491-116/art-4/par-1 - 雇用保険法 附則第五条第一項（給付日数の延長に関する暫定措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/suppl-3491-116/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/suppl-3491-116/art-5/par-1 - 雇用保険法 附則第十条第一項（就業促進手当の支給を受けた場合の特例に関する暫定措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/suppl-3491-116/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/suppl-3491-116/art-10/par-1 - 雇用保険法 附則第十一条の三第一項（教育訓練休暇給付金受給者に対する失業等給付の特例に関する暫定措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/suppl-3491-116/art-11-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/suppl-3491-116/art-11-3/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 雇用保険法 — the text in force from 2026-05-13 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/349AC0000000116/20260513_507AC0000000032), retrieved 2026-09-29 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employment Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3877/tb), retrieved 2026-09-29 - claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employment-insurance-act-20260929T170833-001, translated 2026-09-30 - claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employment-insurance-act-20260929T173048-001, translated 2026-09-30 - This site's parser, version 211 — 雇用保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-29