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Article 44Additional Amounts of Pension

第四十四条(加給年金額)

Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43, if, at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits (or at the time that the insured period had reached 240 months pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3), if the insured period constituting the basis for the calculation of the amount of the employees' old-age pension was less than 240 months at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive those benefits; the same applies in paragraph (3)), the beneficiary had a spouse under the age of 65 or a child (limited to children of ages from birth until the first March 31 on or after the day on which the child reaches the age of 18, and to children under the age of 20 with disabilities classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades provided in Article 47, paragraph (2) (hereinafter referred to simply as "disability grades" in this Article)) who was receiving financial support from the beneficiary, the amount of employees' old-age pension (limited to one calculated based on an insured period of 240 months or more) is calculated by adding an additional amount of pension to the amount provided for in that Article; provided, however, that if the beneficiary has a child to whose pension an amount is added pursuant to the provisions of Article 33-2, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act (unless the payment is suspended for the entire portion that is equal to the additional amount to be paid for the child), the payment of the portion equal to the additional amount to be paid for the child is suspended during that period.

老齢厚生年金(その年金額の計算の基礎となる被保険者期間の月数が二百四十以上であるものに限る。)の額は、受給権者がその権利を取得した当時(その権利を取得した当時、当該老齢厚生年金の額の計算の基礎となる被保険者期間の月数が二百四十未満であつたときは、第四十三条第二項又は第三項の規定により当該月数が二百四十以上となるに至つた当時。第三項において同じ。)その者によつて生計を維持していたその者の六十五歳未満の配偶者又は子(十八歳に達する日以後の最初の三月三十一日までの間にある子及び二十歳未満で第四十七条第二項に規定する障害等級(以下この条において単に「障害等級」という。)の一級若しくは二級に該当する障害の状態にある子に限る。)があるときは、第四十三条の規定にかかわらず、同条に定める額に加給年金額を加算した額とする。ただし、国民年金法第三十三条の二第一項の規定により加算が行われている子があるとき(当該子について加算する額に相当する部分の全額につき支給を停止されているときを除く。)は、その間、当該子について加算する額に相当する部分の支給を停止する。

The additional amount of pension under the preceding paragraph for a spouse as provided in that paragraph is the amount arrived at when 224,700 yen is multiplied by the revision rate specified in Article 27 of the National Pension Act, revised as a rate to which the provisions of Article 27-3 and 27-5 of that Act do not apply (hereinafter referred to as the "revision rate" in this Chapter) (those amounts are to be rounded to the nearest hundred, with amounts less than 50 yen being rounded down, and amounts between 50 yen and 99 yen being rounded up); and the additional amount of pension under the preceding paragraph for children as specified in that paragraph is the amount arrived at when 74,900 yen per child is multiplied by the revision rate (but, for up to two of those children, the additional amount of pension under the preceding paragraph is the amount arrived at when 224,700 yen is multiplied by the revision rate for each of them, rounded to the nearest hundred, with amounts less than 50 yen being rounded down and amounts between 50 yen and 99 yen being rounded up).

前項に規定する加給年金額は、同項に規定する配偶者については二十二万四千七百円に国民年金法第二十七条に規定する改定率であつて同法第二十七条の三及び第二十七条の五の規定の適用がないものとして改定したもの(以下この章において「改定率」という。)を乗じて得た額(その額に五十円未満の端数が生じたときは、これを切り捨て、五十円以上百円未満の端数が生じたときは、これを百円に切り上げるものとする。)とし、同項に規定する子については一人につき七万四千九百円に改定率を乗じて得た額(そのうち二人までについては、それぞれ二十二万四千七百円に改定率を乗じて得た額とし、それらの額に五十円未満の端数が生じたときは、これを切り捨て、五十円以上百円未満の端数が生じたときは、これを百円に切り上げるものとする。)とする。

To apply the provisions of paragraph (1), once a child is born who was in utero at the time the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits, the child is deemed to have been receiving financial support from the beneficiary at the time the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits, and the amount of pension is revised from the month following the month of that child's birth.

受給権者がその権利を取得した当時胎児であつた子が出生したときは、第一項の規定の適用については、その子は、受給権者がその権利を取得した当時その者によつて生計を維持していた子とみなし、その出生の月の翌月から、年金の額を改定する。

Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), for an employees' old-age pension that has had an amount added thereto pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, if the spouse or a child comes to fall under one of the following items, the additional amount of pension associated with that person that is referred to in that paragraph is not added, and the amount of pension is revised from the month following the month in which the person comes to fall under one of the following items:

第一項の規定によりその額が加算された老齢厚生年金については、配偶者又は子が次の各号のいずれかに該当するに至つたときは、同項の規定にかかわらず、その者に係る同項の加給年金額を加算しないものとし、次の各号のいずれかに該当するに至つた月の翌月から、年金の額を改定する。

the person has died;

死亡したとき。

the person has stopped receiving financial support from the beneficiary;

受給権者による生計維持の状態がやんだとき。

the spouse and the beneficiary have divorced or the marriage has been rescinded;

配偶者が、離婚又は婚姻の取消しをしたとき。

the spouse has reached the age of 65;

配偶者が、六十五歳に達したとき。

the child is legally adopted by a person other than the spouse of the beneficiary;

子が、養子縁組によつて受給権者の配偶者以外の者の養子となつたとき。

the adoptive relationship with a legally adopted child has been dissolved;

養子縁組による子が、離縁をしたとき。

the child has married;

子が、婚姻をしたとき。

the first March 31 has passed after the day on which the child (excluding a child with a disability classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades) has reached the age of 18;

子(障害等級の一級又は二級に該当する障害の状態にある子を除く。)について、十八歳に達した日以後の最初の三月三十一日が終了したとき。

a child with a disability classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades (other than a child from birth until the first March 31 after the child reaches the age of 18) ceases to be in those circumstances; or

障害等級の一級又は二級に該当する障害の状態にある子(十八歳に達する日以後の最初の三月三十一日までの間にある子を除く。)について、その事情がやんだとき。

the child has reached the age of 20.

子が、二十歳に達したとき。

Cabinet Order provides for the necessary particulars in connection with certifying that a person was receiving financial support from the beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension in order to apply the provisions of paragraph (1), and provides for the necessary particulars in connection with certifying that a person has stopped receiving financial support from the beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension in order to apply the provisions of item (ii) of the preceding paragraph.

第一項又は前項第二号の規定の適用上、老齢厚生年金の受給権者によつて生計を維持していたこと又はその者による生計維持の状態がやんだことの認定に関し必要な事項は、政令で定める。

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