# 雇用保険法 / Employment Insurance Act — 第十六条 (Article 16) - 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: 第十六条 (Article 16)（基本手当の日額） — address `art-16` - Text in force since: 2026-05-13 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-16 - 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. --- ### 第十六条（基本手当の日額） — (Daily Amount of the Basic Allowance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-16 **第一項** 基本手当の日額は、賃金日額に百分の五十（二千四百六十円以上四千九百二十円未満の賃金日額（その額が第十八条の規定により変更されたときは、その変更された額）については百分の八十、四千九百二十円以上一万二千九十円以下の賃金日額（その額が同条の規定により変更されたときは、その変更された額）については百分の八十から百分の五十までの範囲で、賃金日額の逓増に応じ、逓減するように厚生労働省令で定める率）を乗じて得た金額とする。 art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-16/par-1 The daily amount of the basic allowance is to be an amount obtained by multiplying the daily amount of wages by 50 percent (for daily amount of wages of 2,460 yen or more and less than 4,920 yen (when the amount has been changed pursuant to the provisions of Article 18, the changed amount), 80 percent; and for daily amount of wages of 4,920 yen or more and 12,090 yen or less (when the amount has been changed pursuant to the provisions of Article 18, the changed amount), the percentage specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, gradually decreasing within the range of 80 percent to 50 percent, in accordance with the increase in the daily amount of wages). machine translation, not official **第二項** 受給資格に係る離職の日において六十歳以上六十五歳未満である受給資格者に対する前項の規定の適用については、同項中「百分の五十」とあるのは「百分の四十五」と、「四千九百二十円以上一万二千九十円以下」とあるのは「四千九百二十円以上一万八百八十円以下」とする。 art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-16/par-2 With regard to the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph to qualified recipients who are 60 years old or older and under 65 years old on the day of separation from service pertaining to their recipient qualification, the term "50 percent" in the same paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "45 percent" and the phrase "4,920 yen or more and 12,090 yen or less" is deemed to be replaced with "4,920 yen or more and 10,880 yen or less." machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-16/par-1: 第十八条 → 雇用保険法 第十八条 (Article 18), art-18 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-18 - art-16/par-2: 前項 → 雇用保険法 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-16/par-1 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 雇用保険法 第十六条第二項（基本手当の日額） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-16/par-2 - 雇用保険法 第十八条第四項（基本手当の日額の算定に用いる賃金日額の範囲等の自動的変更） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-18/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-18/par-4 - 雇用保険法 第三十七条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-37/par-3 - 雇用保険法 第三十七条の四第一項（高年齢求職者給付金） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-37-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-37-4/par-1 - 雇用保険法 第四十条第一項（特例一時金） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-40/par-1 - 雇用保険法 第五十六条の三第三項第一号（就業促進手当） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-56-3/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-56-3/par-3/item-1 - 雇用保険法 第五十六条の三第三項第二号ロ（就業促進手当） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-56-3/par-3/item-2/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-56-3/par-3/item-2/sub-2 - 雇用保険法 第五十六条の三第三項第二号ハ（就業促進手当） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-56-3/par-3/item-2/sub-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-56-3/par-3/item-2/sub-3 - 雇用保険法 第六十条の三第五項（教育訓練休暇給付金） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-insurance-act/art-60-3/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-60-3/par-5 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 211 — 雇用保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-29