After you leave your employer

• Return any cards and certificates when you leave your employer
• If you wish to remain a member of the Health Insurance Association

Return any cards and certificates when you leave your employer

Required documents:	Health insurance cards (for the insured person and all dependents, until December 1, 2025)
Deadline:	Within five days after the date of loss of eligibility
Applies to:	Insured persons leaving employment and their dependents
Place of submission:	Department in charge of the affiliated company
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If you wish to remain a member of the Health Insurance Association

Voluntarily and Continuously Insured Persons（voluntarily and continuously）

Required documents:	Application Form for Certification as Voluntarily and Continusously Insured Person Example
Deadline:	Within 20 days after the date of loss of eligibility of the insured person
Applies to:	Insured persons who have been insured continuously for at least two months prior to leaving employment
Place of submission:	Health Insurance Association
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Special retired insured persons（Special retired）

Required documents:	Application Form for Certification as Special Retired Insured Person Example
	A copy of your residence card (something that shows your My Number): Dependent family members must be indicated as well. A copy of your pension certificate: This is sent approximately three months after the normal pension receiving procedure is performed, so attach a copy of a document that makes it possible to confirm that the old-age pension procedures have been completed.
Submission deadline:	Within three months of the day following the date on which the pension certificate is received due to reaching the age for receiving the Old-Age Employees' Pension Within three months of disqualification from receiving health insurance from the place of reemployment Within three months of the retirement date in the case of people who are enrolled in National Health Insurance after retirement and people who are enrolled in family health insurance as dependents (If you were covered by National Health Insurance, please perform the National Health Insurance disqualification procedure after special-case retiree enrollment).
Eligible persons:	Persons who satisfy the three requirements below Persons who have retired from their positions at Nomura Securities or one of its affiliates and satisfy condition A or B below A. Persons who worked at Nomura Securities or one of its affiliates for 20 years or more B. Persons who worked at Nomura Securities or one of its affiliates for 10 years or more starting at the age of 40 Persons who are 74 years old or younger and are qualified to receive the welfare pension insurance old-age pension (including totals) *Because men who are born on or after April 2, 1953, are generally eligible to receive their old-age welfare pension starting at the age of 61, it is not possible for them to obtain special retiree insurance after mandatory retirement. However, if the starting age for receiving the old-age welfare pension is moved up to age 60, special retiree insurance can be obtained starting at this age. Details are available here. Persons in Japan who have residence cards
Place of submission:	Health Insurance Association
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