Article 44Additional Amounts of Pension

①Notwithstanding 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.

②The 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).

④Notwithstanding 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:

⑤Cabinet 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.