Employees' Pension Insurance Act

The right to benefits from an employees' old-age pension ceases to exist when the beneficiary dies.

The provisions of Articles 20 through 25 apply mutatis mutandis when the amount equal to the standard monthly remuneration and the standard bonus amount of an employed person age 70 or over as referred to in the preceding paragraph are calculated. Cabinet Order provides for the necessary technical replacement of terms in connection with those provisions in such a case.

The amount of the adjustment for the suspension of payment specified in paragraph (1) is 620,000 yen; provided, however, that if any of the amounts arrived at when the rate set forth in Article 43-2, paragraph (1), item (ii) is multiplied by the price fluctuation rate in each of the fiscal years in and after fiscal 2025, and each of those rates is multiplied by 620,000 yen (those amounts are rounded to the closest 10,000 yen, with amounts under 5,000 yen being rounded down and amounts between 5,000 yen and 9,999 yen being rounded up; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) exceeds or falls below 620,000 yen (or, if measures to revise the amount of the adjustment for the suspension of payment under the provisions of this paragraph are taken, the amount revised by the immediately preceding measures in question), the amount of the adjustment for the suspension of payment in and after April of the relevant fiscal year is revised to the amount arrived at through that multiplication.

Cabinet Order provides for measures to revise the amount of the adjustment for the suspension of payment under the provisions of the proviso to the preceding paragraph.

The provisions of Article 36, paragraph (2) do not apply if the payment of an employees' old-age pension is suspended, in whole or in part, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1).

The part of the payment of benefits under an employees' old-age pension to which an amount has been added pursuant to the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (1), that is equivalent to the amount added pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph for the spouse of a person to whose pension an amount is added pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph is suspended during the time that the spouse is eligible to receive payment of any benefits under an employees' old-age pension (limited to one calculated based on an insured period of 240 months or more), employees' disability pension, basic disability pension under the National Pension Act, or other such pension, that have old age or retirement or disability as the reason for payment and that are specified by Cabinet Order.

If a person who has contracted an illness or suffered an injury and who was an insured on the day on which the person underwent the first medical examination with a doctor or dentist in connection for that illness, injury, or for an additional illness caused by that illness or injury (those illnesses or injuries are hereinafter referred to as "injury or illness") (that day is hereinafter referred to as the "day of initial examination") has a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any of the disability grades provided for in the following paragraph due to that injury or illness, as of the day after the day calculated as marking the passage of 1 year and 6 months' time since the day of initial examination (or, if the injury or illness has healed on any day within this period (including a day on which the symptoms thereof have stabilized and circumstances are such as that no curative effect is expected; the same applies hereinafter), as of that day; any day defined above is hereinafter referred to as the "day of disability assessment"), an employees' disability pension is paid to the person in accordance with the severity of the person's disability; provided, however, that this does not apply if, as of the day before the day of initial examination for the relevant injury or illness, the person had had an insured period under a National Pension that lasted up until the month two months before the month that includes the day of initial examination, and further, the total sum of the premium-paid period and the premium-exemption period does not comprise at least two-thirds of the relevant insured period.

The disability grade is classified in order of severity from Grade 1 to 3, with Grade 1 being the severest, and the description of the disability for each grade is provided by Cabinet Order.

If a person who has contracted an illness or suffered an injury, who was an insured on the day of initial examination for that injury or illness, and who did not have a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any of the disability grades provided for in paragraph (2) of the preceding Article (hereinafter simply referred to as the "disability grades") as of the day of disability assessment, has come to have a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any of the disability grades due to that injury or illness during the period from the day until the day before the day on which the person reaches the age of 65, the person is entitled to claim the payment of the employees' disability pension under paragraph (1) of that Article during that period.

The provisions of the proviso to paragraph (1) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to a case under the preceding paragraph.

Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, if the claim under paragraph (1) of this Article is made, employees' disability pension under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is paid to the person who makes the claim.

If a person has contracted an illness or suffered an injury, was an insured on the day of initial examination for that injury or illness (hereinafter referred to as the "base injury or illness" in this Article) and has a disability due to an injury or illness other than the base injury or illness, and if the severity of that person's disabilities stemming from a combination of the disability arising from the base injury or illness (hereinafter referred to as the "base disability" in this Article) and other disabilities (but only if the day of initial examination of the base injury or illness is on or after the day of initial examination for the injury or illness other than the base injury or illness (if there are two or more injuries or illnesses other than the base injury or illness, for all injuries or illnesses other than the base injury or illness)) comes to be classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades for the first time during the period from the day of disability assessment for the base injury or illness until the day before the day on which the person reaches the age of 65, the person is paid employees' disability pension in accordance with the severity of the disabilities stemming from a combination of the base disability and other disabilities.

The provisions of the proviso to Article 47, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to a case under the preceding paragraph. In such a case, the phrase "that injury or illness" in the proviso to paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the base injury or illness".

Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 36 paragraph (1), payment of employees' disability pension under paragraph (1) of this Article commences from the month that follows the month in which the claim for the employees' disability pension is made.