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Employment Insurance Act — Article 57 (Job-seeking benefits not yet paid)

고용보험법 제57조

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 remaining job-seeking benefits payable to a deceased eligible recipient shall be paid upon a claim duly filed by the surviving spouse (including a de facto spouse) or any dependent child, parent, grandchild, grandparent, or sibling sharing the same livelihood with the deceased eligible recipient. <Amended on May 26, 2020>

(2) With respect to any period of days for which a deceased eligible recipient could not obtain recognition of unemployment, the person who files a claim for the remaining benefits, as prescribed in paragraph (1) shall obtain recognition of unemployment therefor, as prescribed by Presidential Decree. In such cases, the claimant for the remaining benefits shall also report to the head of an employment security office pursuant to Article 47(1) if the deceased eligible recipient falls under Article 47(1). <Amended on May 26, 2020>

(3) Eligible claimants for the remaining benefits, as prescribed in paragraph (1) shall be given priority in the order in which they are named in that paragraph. In such cases, if two or more eligible claimants exist in the same order of priority, a claim by one of the claimants shall be considered to have been made on behalf of all of them, and payment to that claimant shall be considered to have been made for all of them. <Amended on May 26, 2020>

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