# 雇用保険法 / Employment Insurance Act — 第十条の三 (Article 10-3) - 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: 第十条の三 (Article 10-3)（未支給の失業等給付） — address `art-10-3` - Text in force since: 2026-05-13 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-10-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-10-3 - 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. --- ### 第十条の三（未支給の失業等給付） — (Unpaid Benefits for Unemployment) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-10-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-10-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-10-3 **第一項** 失業等給付の支給を受けることができる者が死亡した場合において、その者に支給されるべき失業等給付でまだ支給されていないものがあるときは、その者の配偶者（婚姻の届出をしていないが、事実上婚姻関係と同様の事情にあつた者を含む。）、子、父母、孫、祖父母又は兄弟姉妹であつて、その者の死亡の当時その者と生計を同じくしていたものは、自己の名で、その未支給の失業等給付の支給を請求することができる。 art-10-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-10-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-10-3/par-1 When a person able to receive payment of the benefits for unemployment, etc. has died and part of the benefits remains unpaid, the person's spouse (including a person in a de facto marital relationship with the person, where the marriage has not been registered), children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents and brothers or sisters, who had shared a livelihood with the person at the time of that person's death, may demand payment of the unpaid part of the benefits for unemployment, etc. in their own names. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定による未支給の失業等給付の支給を受けるべき者の順位は、同項に規定する順序による。 art-10-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-10-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-10-3/par-2 The order of priority in which persons should receive the unpaid part of the benefits for unemployment, etc. pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, is to be the order as prescribed in the same paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の規定による未支給の失業等給付の支給を受けるべき同順位者が二人以上あるときは、その一人のした請求は、全員のためその全額につきしたものとみなし、その一人に対してした支給は、全員に対してしたものとみなす。 art-10-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-10-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-10-3/par-3 If there are two or more persons of the same rank in the order of priority to receive the unpaid part of the benefits for unemployment, etc. pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), a demand made by any one of them is deemed to have been made on behalf of all of them for the total amount claimable, and payment made to one of them is deemed to have been made to all of them. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If there are two or more persons of the same rank in the order of priority to receive the unpaid part of the benefits for unemployment, etc. pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), a demand made by any one of them is deemed to have been made on behalf of all of them for the total amount claimable, and payment made to one of them is be deemed to have been made to all of them." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3877/tb --- ## Cites - art-10-3/par-2: 前項 → 雇用保険法 第十条の三第一項 (Article 10-3, paragraph (1)), art-10-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-10-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-10-3/par-1 - art-10-3/par-3: 第一項 → 雇用保険法 第十条の三第一項 (Article 10-3, paragraph (1)), art-10-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-10-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-10-3/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 雇用保険法 第十条の三第二項（未支給の失業等給付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-10-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-10-3/par-2 - 雇用保険法 第十条の三第三項（未支給の失業等給付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-10-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-10-3/par-3 - 雇用保険法 第三十一条第一項（未支給の基本手当の請求手続） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-31/par-1 - 雇用保険法 第三十一条第二項（未支給の基本手当の請求手続） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-31/par-2 - 雇用保険法 第六十一条の六第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-61-6/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-61-6/par-5 - 雇用保険法 第七十四条第二項（時効） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employment-insurance-act/art-74/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/349AC0000000116/art-74/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-05 - 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 (雇用保険法), Article 10-3, paragraph (3) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3877/tb), 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 - This site's parser, version 211 — 雇用保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-29