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Employment Insurance Act — Article 73 (Limitations on payment of child care leave benefits)

고용보험법 제73조

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 an insured employee is severed from employment during the period of child care leave, no child care leave benefits shall be paid to him or her from the time of job-leaving. <Amended on Jan. 15, 2019>

(2) Where an insured person secures employment under Article 70(3) during the period of child care leave, no child care leave benefits shall be paid to him or her during the period of such employment. <Added on Jan. 15, 2019>

(3) Where an insured employee receives any money and valuables for child care leave from the business owner, the amount of child care leave benefits may be reduced, as prescribed by Presidential Decree. <Amended on Jan. 15, 2019>

(4) Where an insured employee has received, or attempted to receive, child care leave benefits by fraud or other improper means shall be denied child care leave benefits from the date such insured employee has received, or attempted to receive, such benefits; provided, the same shall not apply to subsequent eligibility for child care leave benefits that may be approved after the child care leave relevant to such improper claim. <Amended on Jan. 15, 2019>

(5) Notwithstanding the main clause of paragraph (4), where a person has received or attempted to receive child care leave benefits by not specifying the fact that he or she has secured employment during the period of child care leave or by fraudulently specifying such fact in violation of Article 70(3), the scope of child care leave benefits may be set differently in consideration of the number of violations, etc., of which payment is limited as prescribed by Decree of the Ministry of Employment and Labor. <Added on Jan. 15, 2019>[Title Amended on Jan. 15, 2019]

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