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Membership Eligibility

Any person employed at and receiving a salary from a school or other institution that is a member of the program is eligible for membership and qualifies for receiving the various benefits offered by the program.

Faculty members (1) who do not work full-time; (2) who are employed on a temporary basis; or (3) whose responsibilities are limited in other ways, are not considered eligible for membership. However, in the case of (1) and (2) above, if the faculty member’s total work hours per day or per week, or total working days per month is more than three-quarters of the total working hours per day, per week or working days per month respectively of a person performing similar duties at the same institution, he or she will be eligible for membership.

• Rules governing eligibility for membership are established by law, and individuals cannot decide at will to join or to terminate their membership or choose to join only the Short-Term or the Long-Term Benefits program.
• Membership eligibility will continue even if a member does not make use of the benefits available to him or her because of being on a maternity leave, child care and nursing care leave, caregiving leave, etc.
• Among member institutions, there are some (designated as Type B) to which only the Short-Term Benefits program applies, and others (designated Type C) in which only the Long-Term Benefits program applies. The Private Schools Association therefore uses the following categories to classify program beneficiaries. For details regarding members 70 years or older, please refer to “When 70 years old.”

<Reference> Members are classified into the following types for administrative purpose.

Classification	Under 65 years	65-74 years			75 years or older	Benefits provided
		Under 70 years		70 years or older		Short-Term	Long-Term	Welfare
Type A school *1	Type A-1 member
				Type A-2 member #
				Type B-2 member			-	**
					Type B-3 specified teachers, etc.	-	-	-****
		Type C-4 member #				-
				Type C-5 member ##		-
				Type C-6 specified teachers, etc.#		-	-	-
Type B school	Type B-1 member						-	**
Type C school	Type C-1 member					-
				Type C-2 member ##		-
				Type C-3 specified teachers, etc.		-	-	-
Voluntarily Continued Insurance Member							-	***

* All institutions newly joining the system will be classified as Type A.
** Specified Teachers, etc. (Type B-3, Type C-3, Type C-6) do not need to pay the premium because neither the Short-Term nor the Long-Term Benefits apply to them.
*** Members to the Voluntarily Continued Insurance (VCI) plan will not be able to make use of some programs such as the loan and savings account programs.
**** Members who were born on April 2, 1937 or after.
# Those who were certified by an extended association, became the beneficiaries of the Medical System for the Old Elderly and were exempted from the application of the Short-Term Benefits.
## Those who are 70 years old and older without the entitlement to receive the retirement mutual aid pension payments and postponed the application of the Long-Term Benefits.

Membership Card

• Once one becomes a member, a membership card will be issued. For those aged 70-74, an elderly recipient card, which shows the self-pay ratio of the medical expense, will be issued.
• The Membership Card is to be submitted when receiving health care under the health insurance plan.

Membership Eligibility Certificate

• Type C-1 and Type C-2 members who receive only Long-Term Benefits are issued a Membership Eligibility Certificate.
• Members cannot receive health care under the insurance plan with the Membership Eligibility Certificate.

Membership Card should be handled with care

• When members are issued a Membership Card, they should verify without fail that all entries on the card are correct. If any information on the card (such as the member’s name, date of birth, gender or eligibility date) contains errors, the card holders should not attempt to correct the error by themselves but rather should follow the proper procedure to have the errors corrected. (refer to here)
• The address field on the card is to be filled in by the cardholder. When there is a change in address, the separate procedure for changing the address needs to be followed and the address corrected.
• If a card is lost or damaged, or the name changes, etc., the cardholder must follow the prescribed procedure.

Member Number

• The member number is required when using any of the services offered by the plan, or when members contact the Private School Association to make inquiries, etc.
• The member number is printed on the Membership Card or the Membership Eligibility Certificate.
• The member number is made up of the following components:

Prefectural codes

School type

Schools and other member institutions are classified into 11 categories and indicated by letters from A to K.

School number

4 digits

Personal number

5 digits

Beneficiary’s Basic Pension Number

The 10-digit Basic Pension Number issued by the Social Insurance Agency remains the same throughout the recipient’s life and does not change when he or she changes jobs or even if the recipient leaves the public pension program.
As a rule, a Basic Pension Number is issued to everyone 20 years of age or older (including students) who join the public pension program.

A member who has already been issued a Basic Pension Number must report that number to the Private Schools Association.

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