# 健康保険法 / Health Insurance Act — 第百四十四条 (Article 144) - Law: 健康保険法 (Health Insurance Act), 大正十一年法律第七十号 - English title "Health 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: 第百四十四条 (Article 144)（家族出産育児一時金） — address `art-144` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-144 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-144 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百四十四条（家族出産育児一時金） — (Lump-sum Allowance for Dependent's Childbirth and Childcare) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-144 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-144 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-144 **第一項** 日雇特例被保険者の被扶養者が出産したときは、日雇特例被保険者に対し、家族出産育児一時金を支給する。 art-144/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-144/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-144/par-1 When a dependent of a specially-insured day laborer gives birth to a child, lump-sum allowance for dependent's childbirth and childcare is paid to the specially-insured day laborer. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 日雇特例被保険者が家族出産育児一時金の支給を受けるには、出産の日の属する月の前二月間に通算して二十六日分以上又は当該月の前六月間に通算して七十八日分以上の保険料が、その日雇特例被保険者について、納付されていなければならない。 art-144/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-144/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-144/par-2 In order for a specially-insured day laborer to receive lump-sum allowance for dependent's childbirth and childcare, insurance premiums must have been paid for the specially-insured day laborer for 26 days or more in total in the two months preceding the month including the day of childbirth or for 78 days or more in total in the six months preceding that month. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 家族出産育児一時金の額は、第百一条の政令で定める金額とする。 art-144/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-144/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-144/par-3 The amount of lump-sum allowance for dependent's childbirth and childcare is the amount specified by Cabinet Order referred to in Article 101. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-144/par-3: 第百一条 → 健康保険法 第百一条 (Article 101), art-101 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-101 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-101 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 健康保険法 附則第四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/suppl-4141-102/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/suppl-4141-102/art-4/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 健康保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/211AC0000000070/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Health Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3266/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10 - This site's parser, version 189 — 健康保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10