Article 43Amount of Pension

①The amount of employees' old-age pension is the amount arrived at when the number of months in the insured period is multiplied by an amount equal to 5.481/1000 of the average standardized amount of remuneration for the whole period during which the person was an insured (meaning the number arrived at when the standard monthly remuneration and the standard bonus amounts in each month that constitute a basis for calculation of the insured period are multiplied by the rates provided in the relevant items of the appended table for the category of beneficiary set forth in that item (hereinafter referred to as the "revaluation rate"), and the total is divided by the number of months in the insured period; the same applies hereinafter except for cases in Article 17-6, paragraph (1) and Article 29, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions).

③If a beneficiary who is an insured forfeits status as an insured and one month passes after the day on which the beneficiary forfeits status as an insured without the beneficiary's becoming an insured, the period during which the beneficiary was insured before the month in which the beneficiary forfeited status as an insured is to be the basis for the calculation of employees' old-age pension, and the amount of pension is revised as of the month that includes the day that is calculated as falling one month after the day on which the beneficiary forfeited that status (or the day falling under one of the items from item (ii) through item (iv) of Article 14, if applicable).