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Employment Insurance Act — Article 55 (Coordination of extended benefit payment)

고용보험법 제55조

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) Any extended benefits prescribed in Articles 51 through 53 shall be payable after regular job-seeking benefits to which an eligible recipient is entitled under Article 48 have been fully paid.

(2) No individual extended benefits or special extended benefits may be payable to an eligible recipient currently receiving extended training benefits until such extended training benefits have been fully paid.

(3) When extended training benefits become payable to an eligible recipient currently receiving individual extended benefits or special extended benefits, such individual extended benefits or special extended benefits shall cease to be paid to the eligible recipient.

(4) No individual extended benefits shall be payable to an eligible recipient currently receiving special extended benefits until such special extended benefits have been fully paid, and no special extended benefits are payable to an eligible recipient currently receiving individual extended benefits until such individual extended benefits have been fully paid.

(5) Other matters necessary to coordinate payment of extended benefits shall be prescribed by Decree of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. <Amended on Jun. 4, 2010>

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