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Employment Insurance Act — Article 54 (Extended benefit period and daily amount of job-seeking benefits)

고용보험법 제54조

This English translation is based on the Korean text effective 2025-10-01. The Korean law has since been amended (current version effective 2026-09-18) — check the Korean original.

(1) Where any extended benefits described in Articles 51 through 53 are payable, the benefit period of an eligible recipient shall be computed by adding the number of days of additional benefits payable to the regular benefit period of the eligible recipient prescribed in Article 48.

(2) Where extended training benefits are paid under Article 51, the daily amount of such benefits shall be 100/100 of the relevant eligible recipient’s job-seeking benefits, and where individual extended benefits or special extended benefits are paid under Article 52 or 53, the daily amount of such benefits shall be 70/100 of the relevant eligible recipient's daily amount of job-seeking benefits. <Amended on Mar. 21, 2008>

(3) If an eligible recipient's daily amount of job-seeking benefits as computed under paragraph (2) is less than the minimum daily amount of job-seeking benefits prescribed in Article 46(2), then the minimum daily amount of job-seeking benefits shall be the daily amount of job-seeking benefits payable to the eligible recipient.

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