Article 44-3Deferment of Payment

①A person with the right to receive benefits from an employees' old-age pension who has not claimed the employees' old-age pension before the day that marks the passage of one year's time since the day on which the person acquired the right to receive benefits under it (hereinafter referred to as the "day that marks one year's time" since acquisition of the right to receive benefits in this Article) may file a request with the implementing organization for deferred payment of that employees' old-age pension; provided, however, that this does not apply if, at the time that the person acquired the right to receive benefits from the relevant employees' old-age pension, the beneficiary was the beneficiary of other pension benefits (meaning other pension insurance benefits or pension benefits under the National Pension Act (other than an old-age basic pension, additional pension, or basic disability pension); the same applies hereinafter in this Article), or if, during the period up until the day that marks one year's time since the day on which the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits under the relevant employees' old-age pension, the person has become the beneficiary of other pension insurance benefits.

②If a person as set forth in one of the following items makes the request referred to in the preceding paragraph (excluding a request in a case where the request referred to in the preceding paragraph is deemed to have been made pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (5); the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) after the day that marks one year's time since the acquisition of the right to receive benefits, the request referred to in the preceding paragraph is deemed to have been made on the day specified in that item:

③Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 36, paragraph (1), the payment of an employees' old-age pension to a person who has filed a request as referred to in paragraph (1) (including a request in a case where the request referred to in paragraph (1) is deemed to have been made pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (5); the same applies in the following paragraph) is to commence in the month following the month in which the request is filed.

④Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1) and Article 44, the amount of the employees' old-age pension to be paid to a person who has filed a request as referred to in paragraph (1) is the amount arrived at when the amount calculated in accordance with these provisions is added to the amount prescribed by Cabinet Order in consideration of the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1) based on the insured period up to the month before the month that includes the day on which the person acquires the right to receive benefits from the employees' old-age pension and the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 46, paragraph (1) for the payment it has been decided to suspend.

⑤If a person who is able to file a request for deferred payment of an employees' old-age pension pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) claims that employees' old-age pension after the day that marks five years' time since the day on which the person acquired the right to receive benefits under it, and does not file a request as referred to in that paragraph at the time of that claim, the request referred to in that paragraph is deemed to have been made on the day five years before the day on which the claim was made; provided, however, that this does not apply if the person falls under one of the following items: