If, in spite of the right to receive benefits having ceased to exist due to the death of the beneficiary of pension insurance benefits, the pension insurance benefits were overpaid due to payment for any month following the month that includes the date of the beneficiary's death, but there are pension insurance benefits that are to be paid to the person who is to perform obligations under the claim for the return of monies that has resulted from the overpayment (hereinafter referred to as a "claim for the return of monies"), the amount of payment under the pension insurance benefits may be appropriated as the amount of the claim for the return of monies that resulted from the overpayment, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
年金たる保険給付の受給権者が死亡したためその受給権が消滅したにもかかわらず、その死亡の日の属する月の翌月以後の分として当該年金たる保険給付の過誤払が行われた場合において、当該過誤払による返還金に係る債権（以下「返還金債権」という。）に係る債務の弁済をすべき者に支払うべき年金たる保険給付があるときは、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、当該年金たる保険給付の支払金の金額を当該過誤払による返還金債権の金額に充当することができる。