If the insured or former insured falls under any one of the following items, an employees' pension for surviving family is paid to the surviving family of the insured or former insured; provided, however, that this does not apply, in a case that falls under item (i) or (ii) if, as of the day before the day of death, the deceased person had had an insured period under National Pension that lasted up until the month two months before the month that includes the day of death, and further, the total sum of the premium-paid period and the premium-exemption period does not comprise at least two-thirds of the relevant insured period:
the insured (including a former insured who was subject to an adjudication of disappearance and who was insured at the time that the whereabouts of the person became unknown) has died;
被保険者（失踪の宣告を受けた被保険者であつた者であつて、行方不明となつた当時被保険者であつたものを含む。）が、死亡したとき。
a former insured has, after forfeiting status as an insured, died of an injury or illness for which the day of initial examination was within the period during which the person was an insured, prior to the day on which five years have elapsed counting from the relevant day of initial examination;
the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension who had a disability classified as the Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades has died; or
a person whose total sum of the premium-paid period and the premium-exemption period is twenty-five years or more has died.
In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, if an insured or former insured who has died falls under any one of items (i) through (iii) of that paragraph, and also falls under item (iv) of that paragraph, the person is deemed to fall only under any one of the items (i) through (iii), and not to fall under item (iv) of that paragraph, unless otherwise specifically requested by the surviving family member of that person if that surviving family member claims the employees' pension for surviving family.
前項の場合において、死亡した被保険者又は被保険者であつた者が同項第一号から第三号までのいずれかに該当し、かつ、同項第四号にも該当するときは、その遺族が遺族厚生年金を請求したときに別段の申出をした場合を除き、同項第一号から第三号までのいずれかのみに該当し、同項第四号には該当しないものとみなす。