# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第三十二条 (Article 32)

- Law: 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 (Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People), 昭和五十七年法律第八十号
- English title "Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People": 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: 第三十二条 (Article 32)（前期高齢者交付金） — address `art-32`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-32
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### 第三十二条（前期高齢者交付金） — (Young-Old Subsidies)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-32</sup>

**第一項**  機構は、各保険者（国民健康保険にあつては、都道府県。以下この章において同じ。）に係る加入者の数に占める前期高齢者である加入者（六十五歳に達する日の属する月の翌月（その日が月の初日であるときは、その日の属する月）以後である加入者であつて、七十五歳に達する日の属する月以前であるものその他厚生労働省令で定めるものをいう。以下同じ。）の数の割合に係る負担の不均衡を調整するため、政令で定めるところにより、保険者に対して、前期高齢者交付金を交付する。
<sup>art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-32/par-1</sup>
The Organization is to provide Insurers with Young-Old Subsidies, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, in order to adjust the imbalances in the burden related to the proportion of participants who are young-old adults (meaning participants who are in or after the month following the month in which they reach 65 years of age (if that day is the first day of a month, the month in which that day falls) and in or before the month in which they reach 75 years of age, and other persons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; the same applies hereinafter) in the number of participants pertaining to each Insurer (in the case of National Health Insurance, the prefecture; the same applies hereinafter in this Chapter).
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  前項の前期高齢者交付金は、第三十六条第一項の規定により機構が徴収する前期高齢者納付金をもつて充てる。
<sup>art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-32/par-2</sup>
The Young-Old Subsidies referred to in the preceding paragraph are to be covered by the young-old payments collected by the Organization pursuant to the provisions of Article 36, paragraph (1).
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-32/par-2: 前項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第三十二条第一項 (Article 32, paragraph (1)), art-32/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-32/par-1
- art-32/par-2: 第三十六条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第三十六条第一項 (Article 36, paragraph (1)), art-36/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-36/par-1

## Cited by

4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 国民健康保険法 附則第四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/suppl-4221-35/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/suppl-4221-35/art-4/par-1
- 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第二十九条第一項（関係者との連携） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-29/par-1
- 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第三十二条第二項（前期高齢者交付金） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-32/par-2
- 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第三十三条第一項（前期高齢者交付金の額） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-33/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/357AC0000000080/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch elderly-medical-care-act-20261019T112331-001, translated 2026-10-19
- This site's parser, version 209 — 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19
