Employees' Pension Insurance Act

The provisions of Article 37, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 (limited to the amending provision set forth in Article 1, paragraph (1), item (viii) of the Supplementary Provisions; the same applies in paragraph (2) of the following Article) (hereinafter referred to as the "Post-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act") apply, in the case referred to in Article 37, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, to the case where the person who died on or after the item (viii) Effective Date was a spouse who is the beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family, and the provisions then in force continue to govern, in the case referred to in that paragraph, the case where the person who died before the item (viii) Effective Date was a wife who is the beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family (including a person who had not registered the marriage but whose circumstances were, de facto, the same as those of a person in a marital relationship; the same applies in Article 15 of the Supplementary Provisions).

The provisions of the main clause of Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Post-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 9-2, paragraph (3), Article 9-3, paragraphs (2) and (4) (including where they are followed under Article 9-3, paragraph (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act), and Article 9-4, paragraphs (3) and (5) (including where they are followed under Article 9-4, paragraph (6) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Post-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act) (limited to the part relating to the amount to be added for a child) apply to a person who acquires the right to benefits from an employees' old-age pension on or after the item (viii) Effective Date, and the provisions then in force continue to govern a person who acquired the right to benefits from an employees' old-age pension before the item (viii) Effective Date.

The provisions of the proviso to Article 44, paragraph (1), the proviso to Article 50-2, paragraph (1), the proviso to Article 62-2, paragraph (1) (limited to the part set forth in item (i)), and the proviso to Article 62-3, paragraph (1) of the Post-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act do not apply to a person who holds the right to benefits from an employees' old-age pension to which the additional amount of pension relating to a child (limited to one who has no domicile in Japan at the time of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, paragraph (1), item (viii) of the Supplementary Provisions; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph and paragraph (10)) is actually added at the time of enforcement of the provisions set forth in that item pursuant to the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 3 (hereinafter referred to as the "Pre-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act") (including as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 9-2, paragraph (3), Article 9-3, paragraphs (2) and (4) (including where they are followed under Article 9-3, paragraph (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act), and Article 9-4, paragraphs (3) and (5) (including where they are followed under Article 9-4, paragraph (6) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Pre-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act; the same applies in paragraphs (4) and (6)), to a person who holds the right to benefits from an employees' disability pension to which the additional amount of pension relating to a child has been added (limited to one whose amount has been revised pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (7)), or to a person who holds the right to benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family to which the additional amount of pension relating to a child has been added (limited to one whose amount has been revised pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (9)); provided, however, that payment of the portion equivalent to the amount to be added for those children is suspended during the period from the month following the month that includes the day on which those children first ceased to have a domicile in Japan (excluding where they came to fall under students studying abroad, etc.) on or after the day on which those children came to have a domicile in Japan on or after the item (viii) Effective Date, until the month that includes the day on which those children came to have a domicile in Japan.

With regard to a person who holds the right to benefits from an employees' old-age pension for which, at the time of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, paragraph (1), item (viii) of the Supplementary Provisions, payment of the portion equivalent to the amount to be added for a child prescribed in the proviso to Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Pre-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act is actually being suspended pursuant to the proviso to that paragraph, the suspension of payment of the portion equivalent to the amount to be added for a child prescribed in the proviso to that paragraph under the proviso to that paragraph is not carried out on or after April 2028.

With regard to a person who holds, before the item (viii) Effective Date, the right to benefits from an employees' old-age pension to which the additional amount of pension relating to a spouse was added pursuant to the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Pre-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article (including as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 9-2, paragraph (3), Article 9-3, paragraphs (2) and (4) (including where they are followed under Article 9-3, paragraph (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act), and Article 9-4, paragraphs (3) and (5) (including where they are followed under Article 9-4, paragraph (6) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Pre-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act) (limited to the part relating to the amount to be added for a spouse) and Article 60, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the pre-Article 7 amendment 1985 Amendment Act remain in force. In this case, with regard to the person who holds that right, the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (2) of the Post-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 9-2, paragraph (3), Article 9-3, paragraphs (2) and (4) (including where they are followed under Article 9-3, paragraph (5) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act), and Article 9-4, paragraphs (3) and (5) (including where they are followed under Article 9-4, paragraph (6) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Post-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act; the same applies in the following paragraph) (limited to the part relating to the amount to be added for a spouse) and Article 60, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the post-Article 7 amendment 1985 Amendment Act do not apply.

The provisions of Article 44, paragraph (2) of the Post-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply to the additional amount of pension relating to a child for months on or after April 2028, and the provisions then in force continue to govern the additional amount of pension relating to a child for months on or before March of the same year.

The provisions of Article 46, paragraph (7) of the Post-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act do not apply to a person (excluding a person specified by Cabinet Order) who holds the right to benefits from an employees' old-age pension to which the additional amount of pension relating to a child is actually added at the time of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, paragraph (1), item (viii) of the Supplementary Provisions pursuant to the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Pre-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act.

Where a person who holds the right to receive benefits from an employees' disability pension (limited to one paid to a person whose severity of disability falls under the Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (2) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph and the following paragraph) holds, at the time of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, paragraph (1), item (viii) of the Supplementary Provisions, the right to receive benefits from a basic disability pension to which an amount is actually added pursuant to the provisions of Article 33-2, paragraph (1) of the pre-item (viii) amendment National Pension Act, the implementing organization revises the amount of the employees' disability pension from April 2028, deeming that person to fall under the case prescribed in the main clause of Article 50-2, paragraph (1) of the Post-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act on the item (viii) Effective Date, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (3) of that Article. In this case, the provisions of Article 46, paragraph (7) of the Post-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54, paragraph (3) of the Post-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act do not apply to a person who holds the right to receive benefits from the employees' disability pension so revised (excluding a person specified by Cabinet Order).

Where a person who holds the right to receive benefits from an employees' disability pension at the time of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, paragraph (1), item (viii) of the Supplementary Provisions (excluding a person to whom the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply) falls, on the item (viii) Effective Date, under the case prescribed in the main clause of Article 50-2, paragraph (1) of the Post-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the implementing organization revises the amount of the employees' disability pension from April 2028, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (3) of that Article.

Where a person who holds the right to receive benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family holds, at the time of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, paragraph (1), item (viii) of the Supplementary Provisions, the right to receive benefits from a basic pension for surviving family (limited to one paid based on the same grounds for payment as those for that employees' pension for surviving family) to which an amount is actually added pursuant to the provisions of Article 39, paragraph (1) or Article 39-2, paragraph (1) of the pre-item (viii) amendment National Pension Act, the implementing organization revises the amount of the employees' pension for surviving family from April 2028, deeming that person to fall under the case prescribed in the main clause of Article 62-2, paragraph (1) or the main clause of Article 62-3, paragraph (1) of the Post-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act on the item (viii) Effective Date.

The administrative work relating to the suspension of payment, by the implementing organization, of the portion equivalent to the amount to be added for a child under the proviso to paragraph (2) (excluding the decision on that suspension of payment) and the administrative work relating to the revision of the amount of pension under the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs (excluding the decision on that revision) are to be performed by the Japan Pension Service. In this case, the phrase "Employees' Pension Insurance Act" in Article 23, paragraph (3) of the Japan Pension Organization Act is deemed to be replaced with "Employees' Pension Insurance Act or 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)", the phrase "Employees' Pension Insurance Act" in Article 26, paragraph (2) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "Employees' Pension Insurance Act or 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", the phrase "the administrative work prescribed in Article 100-10, paragraph (1) of that Act, the businesses set forth in the items of Article 79, paragraph (1) of that Act" in Article 27, paragraph (1), item (i) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "the administrative work prescribed in Article 100-10, paragraph (1) of that Act, the administrative work prescribed in Article 12, paragraph (10) of the Supplementary Provisions 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, the businesses set forth in the items of Article 79, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act", and the phrase "Employees' Pension Insurance Act" in Article 48, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to be replaced with "Employees' Pension Insurance Act or 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".

The provisions of Article 44-4 of the Post-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply to a person who, on the day before the item (viii) Effective Date, does not hold the right to receive benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family (limited to a person prescribed in Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2020 Amendment Act) and a person who, on that day, holds the right to receive benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family (limited to a person who has not reached the age of 65 on that day).

The provisions of Article 62 of the Post-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act apply to an employees' pension for surviving family for which the grounds for payment arise on or after the item (viii) Effective Date.

The provisions then in force continue to govern the application of the provisions relating to the scope of surviving family members, loss of the right, and suspension of payment of an employees' pension for surviving family for which the grounds for payment arose before the item (viii) Effective Date.

With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 59, paragraph (2), Article 62, paragraph (1) and Article 78-21-2, paragraph (1) of the Post-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act to a wife who is under 60 years of age at the time of the death of her husband (including a person who had not registered the marriage but whose circumstances were, de facto, the same as those of a person in a marital relationship) where the husband dies during the period from the item (viii) Effective Date to March 31, 2048, the word "spouse" in Article 59, paragraph (2) of the Post-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act is deemed to be replaced with "spouse (limited to a person born on or after April 2, 1989; the same applies in Article 62, paragraph (1) and Article 78-21-2, paragraph (1))".

With regard to an employees' pension for surviving family for a wife for which the grounds for payment arise by April 1, 2053, the provisions of Article 62 of the Pre-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act remain in force. In this case, with regard to the application of the provisions of paragraph (1) of that Article on or after the item (viii) Effective Date, the phrase "being rounded up)" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "being rounded up), multiplied by the rate set forth in the lower column of the Appended Table 1 of the Supplementary Provisions 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) corresponding to the classification of periods set forth in the upper column of that table in which the day on which the grounds arose for paying that employees' pension for surviving family falls", and other necessary replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order.

With regard to the amount of the addition under the provisions of Article 62, paragraph (1) of the Pre-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act that remains in force as replaced pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 65 and Article 78-32, paragraph (3) of, and Article 28-2, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of, the Pre-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act remain in force.

The provisions of Article 78-21-2, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Post-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act do not apply where the grounds for payment of an employees' pension for surviving family arose before the item (viii) Effective Date.

In the case of applying Article 8, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985; referred to as the "1985 National Pension Act, etc. Amendment Act" in Articles 20 and 21 of the Supplementary Provisions) to a person whose standard monthly remuneration and standard bonus amount have been revised or decided pursuant to the provisions of Article 78-21-2, paragraphs (3) and (5) of the Post-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the word "includes" in that item is deemed to be replaced with "includes, excluding a period deemed to have been an EPI insured period pursuant to the provisions of Article 78-21-2, paragraph (6) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act", and other replacement of terms necessary for the application of the provisions concerning the calculation of the amount of insurance benefits under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act and the suspension of payment thereof, and other provisions specified by Cabinet Order, is specified by Cabinet Order.

With respect to a person who holds the right to receive benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family to which an amount is actually added at the time of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, paragraph (1), item (viii) of the Supplementary Provisions pursuant to the provisions of Article 74, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the pre-Article 7 amendment 1985 Amendment Act, the implementing organization revises the amount of the employees' pension for surviving family from April 2028, deeming that person to fall under the case prescribed in the main clause of Article 62-2, paragraph (1) or the main clause of Article 62-3, paragraph (1) of the Post-item (viii) Amendment Employees' Pension Insurance Act on the item (viii) Effective Date.

The provisions of Article 74, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the post-Article 7 amendment 1985 Amendment Act apply to the employees' pension for surviving family for months on or after April 2028, and the provisions then in force continue to govern the employees' pension for surviving family for months on or before March of the same year.

The provisions of Article 34, paragraph (5) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act prior to the amendment by Article 3 of the 1985 National Pension Act Amendment Act, which remain in force as read with terms replaced pursuant to the provisions of Article 78, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the post-Article 7 amendment 1985 Amendment Act, apply to the additional amount of pension relating to a child for months on or after April 2028, and the provisions then in force continue to govern the additional amount of pension relating to a child for months on or before March of the same year.

The administrative work relating to the revision, by the implementing organization, of the amount of pension under the provisions of paragraph (1) (excluding the decision on that revision) is to be performed by the Japan Pension Service. In this case, the phrase "Employees' Pension Insurance Act" in Article 23, paragraph (3) of the Japan Pension Organization Act is deemed to be replaced with "Employees' Pension Insurance Act or 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)", the phrase "Employees' Pension Insurance Act" in Article 26, paragraph (2) of the Japan Pension Organization Act is deemed to be replaced with "Employees' Pension Insurance Act or 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", the phrase "the administrative work prescribed in Article 100-10, paragraph (1) of that Act, the businesses set forth in the items of Article 79, paragraph (1) of that Act" in Article 27, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Japan Pension Organization Act is deemed to be replaced with "the administrative work prescribed in Article 100-10, paragraph (1) of that Act, the administrative work prescribed in Article 20, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions 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, the businesses set forth in the items of Article 79, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act", and the phrase "Employees' Pension Insurance Act" in Article 48, paragraph (1) of the Japan Pension Organization Act is deemed to be replaced with "Employees' Pension Insurance Act or 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".