Employees' Pension Insurance Act

Of Out of the amount of anthe employees' pension for surviving family, the additional amount prescribed provided for in Article 62, paragraph (1) of the new Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 3 of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc., and Other Matters, to Strengthen the Functions of the Pension System in Light of Socioeconomic Changes (Act No. 74 of 2025; hereinafter referred to as the "2025 Amendment Act"), which remains in force as replaced pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2025 Amendment Act: that paragraph;

For a person listed in the upper column of Appended Table 7 of the Supplementary Provisions, the phrase "5.481/1,000" in Article 43, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as applied in Article 44, paragraph (1) and Article 44-3, paragraph (4) of that Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 44-4, paragraph (2) of that Act and as applied with replaced terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 87 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act; the same applies in paragraph (5)), as applied in Article 44-3, paragraph (4) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to amendment by Article 5 of the 2000 Amendment Act that remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 17, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act, and as followed in Article 60, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (limited to the case of falling under Article 58, paragraph (1), item (iv) of that Act)) and in Article 9-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as followed in Article 9-3, paragraphs (1) and (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (including as followed in paragraph (5) of that Article), Article 9-4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (including as followed in Article 28-3, paragraph (2) and Article 28-4, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act) and Article 9-4, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (including as followed in paragraph (6) of that Article), and in Article 18, paragraph (2), Article 19, paragraphs (2) and (4), Article 20, paragraphs (2) and (4) and Article 20-2, paragraphs (2) and (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1994 Amendment Act), and in Article 20, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act (limited to the case of calculating the amount of an employees' old-age pension and an employees' pension for surviving family (limited to one paid by reason of falling under Article 58, paragraph (1), item (iv) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act)) is deemed to be replaced as shown in the lower column of that table, respectively.

With respect to the additional amount of pension for a spouse in an employees' old-age pension paid to a person listed in the upper column of the following table, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 9-2, paragraph (3), Article 9-3, paragraphs (2) and (4) (including as followed in paragraph (5) of that Article) and Article 9-4, paragraphs (3) and (5) (including as followed in paragraph (6) of that Article) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, and in Article 18, paragraph (3), Article 19, paragraphs (3) and (5), Article 20, paragraphs (3) and (5), Article 20-2, paragraphs (3) and (5) and Article 27, paragraphs (15) through (17) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 1994 Amendment Act), the amount is the amount obtained by adding the amount listed in the lower column of that table (where a fraction of less than 50 yen arises, it is rounded down, and where a fraction of 50 yen or more but less than 100 yen arises, it is rounded up , to 100 yen) to the amount specified in Article 44, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, respectively. A person born between April 2, 1934 and April 1, 1940 Thethe amount obtained by multiplying 33149,200 yen by the revision rate (meaning the revision rate revised as if the provisions of Articles 27-3 and 27-5 of the National Pension Act did not apply; the same applies hereinafter in this table) A person born between April 2, 1940 and April 1, 1941 The amount obtained by multiplying 66,300) (where a fraction of less than 50 yen by the revision rate A person born between April 2, 1941 and April 1, 1942 The amount obtained by multiplying 99,500 yen by the revision rate A person born between April 2, 1942 arises, it is rounded down, and April 1, 1943 The amount obtained by multiplying 132,600where a fraction of 50 yen by the revision rate A person born on or after April 2, 1943 The amount obtained by multiplying 165,800or more but less than 100 yen arises, it is rounded up to 100 yen by the revision rate).

With regard to the application of Article 46, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, Article 46, paragraph (5) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 1 of the 2013 Amendment Act that remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, Article 133-2, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 1 of the 2013 Amendment Act that remain in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, and Article 163-3, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 1 of the 2013 Amendment Act that remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 61, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, relating to an employees' old-age pension (excluding one under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and one specified by Cabinet Order), for the time being, the phrase "and additional amounts provided for in Article 44-3, paragraph (4) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 44-4, paragraph (2); the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph)" in Article 46, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act is deemed to be replaced with ", additional amounts provided for in Article 44-3, paragraph (4) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 44-4, paragraph (2)) (hereinafter referred to as the 'deferral addition') and additional amounts provided for in Article 59, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985) (hereinafter referred to as the 'transitional addition')", and the phrase "(excluding the additional amount provided for in Article 44-3, paragraph (4) of that Article)" in that paragraph with "(excluding the deferral addition and the transitional addition)"; the phrase "and additional amounts provided for in Article 44-3, paragraph (4)" in Article 46, paragraph (5) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 1 of the 2013 Amendment Act that remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act is deemed to be replaced with ", additional amounts provided for in Article 44-3, paragraph (4) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 44-4, paragraph (2)) (hereinafter referred to as the 'deferral addition') and additional amounts provided for in Article 59, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985) (hereinafter referred to as the 'transitional addition')", the phrase "and additional amounts provided for in Article 44-3, paragraph (4) (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the 'deferral addition')" in that paragraph with ", additional amounts provided for in Article 44-3, paragraph (4) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 44-4, paragraph (2) and as applied with replaced terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 87 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. for Ensuring the Soundness and Reliability of the Public Pension System (Act No. 63 of 2013)) (hereinafter referred to as the 'deferral addition') and additional amounts provided for in Article 59, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985) (hereinafter referred to as the 'transitional addition')", the phrase "and the deferral addition" in that paragraph with ", the deferral addition and the transitional addition", the phrase "the additional amount provided for in that paragraph" in that paragraph with "the deferral addition and the transitional addition", and the phrase "(the deferral addition" in that paragraph with "(the deferral addition and the transitional addition"; the phrase "or additional amounts provided for in Article 44-3, paragraph (4) (hereinafter in this paragraph and the following paragraph referred to as the 'deferral addition')" in Article 133-2, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 1 of the 2013 Amendment Act that remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act is deemed to be replaced with ", the deferral addition or the transitional addition", and the phrase "and the deferral addition" in that paragraph with ", the deferral addition and the transitional addition"; the phrase "and the deferral addition" in Article 133-2, paragraph (3) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 1 of the 2013 Amendment Act that remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act is deemed to be replaced with ", the deferral addition and the transitional addition", and the phrase "or the deferral addition" in that paragraph with ", the deferral addition or the transitional addition"; and the phrase "or additional amounts provided for in Article 44-3, paragraph (4) (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the 'deferral addition')" in Article 163-3, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 1 of the 2013 Amendment Act that remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 61, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act is deemed to be replaced with ", the deferral addition or the transitional addition", and the phrase "and the deferral addition" in that paragraph with ", the deferral addition and the transitional addition".

When a beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family prescribed in Article 62, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 3 of the 2025 Amendment Act, which remains in force with its terms replaced pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2025 Amendment Act, who is listed in the upper column of Appended Table 9 of the Supplementary Provisions (limited to a person who was the wife of a deceased insured under employees' pension insurance or former insured) was 65 years of age or older at the time the person acquired that right, or when a beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family to which an amount has been added pursuant to the provisions of that Article 62, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to the amendment who is listed in the upper column of that table reaches 65 years of age, the amount of that employees' pension for surviving family is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 60, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the amount arrived at by applying the provisions of that paragraph, treating the amount prescribed in item (i) of that paragraph as the amount obtained by adding to that amount the amount obtained by deducting the amount set forth in item (ii) of this paragraph from the amount set forth in item (i) of this paragraph; provided, however, that if the beneficiary of that employees' pension for surviving family holds the right to receive benefits from a basic disability pension under the National Pension Act or a disability pension under the former National Pension Act (excluding while payment of it is suspended), payment of the portion equivalent to the amount to be added is suspended during that time.

The additional the amount arrived at when the amount prescribed of the basic pension for surviving family provided for in Article 62, paragraph (1) of38 of the National Pension Act is multiplied by three-quarters (rounded to the Employees' Pension Insurance Actnearest hundred, with amounts less than 50 yen being rounded down and amounts between 50 yen and 99 yen being rounded up);

In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 65 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 3 of the 2025 Amendment Act, which remain in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2025 Amendment Act, apply mutatis mutandis.

When a beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family to which an amount has been added pursuant to the provisions of Article 62, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 3 of the 2025 Amendment Act, which remains in force with its terms replaced pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2025 Amendment Act, reaches 65 years of age, the revision of the amount of pension under the provisions of paragraph (1) is made from the month following the month that includes the day on which the person reaches 65 years of age.

The amount of an employees' pension for surviving family to be paid to a spouse is, in the case where, at the time of the death of the relevant insured under employees' pension insurance or former insured, the spouse was living off the same financial resources as a child who satisfied the requirements prescribed in Article 59, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and the spouse does not acquire the right to receive benefits from a basic pension for surviving family in connection with the death of the relevant insured under employees' pension insurance or former insured, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 60, paragraph (1), item (i) and Article 62-2, paragraphs (1) and (2) of that Act and Article 62, paragraph (1) of that the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 3 of the 2025 Amendment Act, which remains in force with its terms replaced pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2025 Amendment Act, the amount calculated in the same manner as under those provisions plus the amount calculated in the same manner as under the provisions of Article 38 and Article 39, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act.

The amount of an employees' pension for surviving family to be paid to a child is, in the case where the child does not acquire the right to receive benefits from a basic pension for surviving family in connection with the death of the relevant insured under employees' pension insurance or former insured, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 60, paragraph (1), item (i) and paragraph (2) and Article 62-3, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the amount calculated in the same manner as under those provisions plus the amount calculated in the same manner as under the provisions of Article 38 and Article 39-2, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act.

The provisions of Article 39, paragraphs (2) and (3), Article 39-2, paragraph (2), Article 40, Article 41, paragraph (2) and Article 41-2 of the newNew National Pension Act apply mutatis mutandis to the portion of an employees' pension for surviving family that is equivalent to the additional amount under the preceding two paragraphs.

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 65 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (2) of the new preceding Article) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 3 of the 2025 Amendment Act, which remain in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (23) of the preceding Article) Supplementary Provisions of the 2025 Amendment Act, to an employees' pension for surviving family to which an amount has been added pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), the phrase "the beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family to which an additional amount has been added pursuant to the provisions of Article 62 paragraph (1) is the wife, and if she is entitled to receive a basic pension for surviving family under the National Pension Act in connection with the death of the relevant insured or former insured" in Article 65 of that the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to the amendment is deemed to be replaced with "an employees' pension for surviving family to which an additional amount has been added pursuant to the provisions of Article 62 paragraph (1) is one to which an amount has been added pursuant to the provisions of Article 74, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985)".

With regard The portion of an employees' pension for surviving family to the application of which an amount has been added pursuant to the provisions of Article 66, paragraphparagraph (1) or (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, for the time being, the phrase "employees' pension for surviving familythat is equivalent to the additional amount under the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2) is deemed to the spouse" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "be a basic pension for surviving family and not an employees' pension for surviving family to, for the spouse (excluding one to which an amount has been added pursuant to purpose of applying Article 20 of the National Pension Act, Article 38 of the provisions of Article 74, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985; hereinafter referred to as the '1985 Amendment Act'))", and the phrase "Employees' Pension Insurance Act and other provisions equivalent to those provisions concerning the adjustment for combined benefits that are specified by Cabinet Order, and for the purpose of applying Article 63, paragraph (1), item (v) of the basic pension for surviving family" with "Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to the basic pension for surviving family or an employees' pension for surviving family amendment by the provisions of Article 3 of the 2025 Amendment Act, with regard to which an amount has been added the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 7414, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 19852025 Amendment Act".

The provisions of Article 46, paragraphs (7) and (8) and the proviso to Article 50-2, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis to disability pensions under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act. In this case, necessary technical replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order.

With regard to an old-age pension benefit that the Fund pays to a person prescribed in paragraph (1) who has made the request under Article 44-3, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including that request in the case where the request under paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to have been made pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (5) of that Article; the same applies in Article 84, paragraphs (3) and (4) of the Supplementary Provisions) or the request under Article 44-4, paragraph (1) of that Act (including that request in the case where the request under Article 44-4, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to have been made pursuant to the provisions of Article 44-3, paragraph (5) of that Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (2) of Article 44-4 of that Act; the same applies in Article 84, paragraphs (3) and (4) of the Supplementary Provisions), the phrase "the sum of the amounts listed in the following items" in paragraph (1) is deemed to be replaced with "the sum of the amounts listed in the following items plus the amount specified by Cabinet Order".

for the expenses required for an old-age pension benefit paid to a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension who was born on or before April 1, 1940 (including a person prescribed in Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act), the amount obtained by deducting the amount set forth in (b) from the amount set forth in (a) (in the case of the expenses required for an old-age pension benefit paid to a person who has made a request under Article 44-3, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act or a request under Article 44-4, paragraph (1) of that Act, the amount obtained by adding an amount specified by Cabinet Order to that amount);

for the expenses required for an old-age pension benefit paid to a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension who was born between April 2, 1940 and April 1, 1943 and has a period as an insured Fund member on or after the Effective Date (excluding a person prescribed in Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act), the amount obtained by deducting the amount set forth in (b) from the amount set forth in (a) (in the case of the expenses required for an old-age pension benefit paid to a person who has made a request under Article 44-3, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act or a request under Article 44-4, paragraph (1) of that Act, the amount obtained by adding an amount specified by Cabinet Order to that amount);

for the expenses required for an old-age pension benefit paid to a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension who was born on or after April 2, 1943 and has a period as an insured Fund member on or after April 1, 2005 (excluding a person prescribed in Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2000 Amendment Act), the amount obtained by deducting the amount set forth in (b) from the amount set forth in (a) (in the case of the expenses required for an old-age pension benefit paid to a person who has made a request under Article 44-3, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act or a request under Article 44-4, paragraph (1) of that Act, the amount obtained by adding an amount specified by Cabinet Order to that amount);

Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance may, upon the request of a Fund, provide that the bearing under the provisions of paragraph (2) is to be made for the expenses required for an old-age pension benefit that the Fund pays to those of the members or former members of the Fund who fall under Article 42, item (ii) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including a person deemed to fall under Article 42, item (ii) of that Act pursuant to the provisions of Article 14 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act or provisions of laws and regulations) and have reached the age at which payment of an employees' old-age pension starts, those who have satisfied the period constituting the qualifying requirement for a special old-age pension prescribed in Article 28-3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act and have reached the age at which payment of that special old-age pension starts, or those who have satisfied the period constituting the qualifying requirement for an old-age pension, aggregated old-age pension or special old-age pension under the former Employees' Pension Insurance Act and have reached the age at which payment of that old-age pension, aggregated old-age pension or special old-age pension starts. In this case, the amount borne by the government as the executor of employees' pension insurance is the amount obtained by multiplying the amount specified in the items of the preceding paragraph (for the expenses required for an old-age pension benefit paid to a person who has made a request under Article 44-3, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act or a request under Article 44-4, paragraph (1) of that Act, the amount obtained by deducting an amount specified by Cabinet Order from that amount) by a rate specified by Cabinet Order.

The provisions of Article 46, paragraphs (7) and (8) and the proviso to Article 50-2, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply mutatis mutandis to disability pensions under the former Mariners Insurance Act. In this case, necessary technical replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order.