Supplementary Provisions, Article 13-5

①When a person prescribed in each paragraph of Article 8-2 of the Supplementary Provisions acquires the right to receive benefits from an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article (for a person prescribed in Article 8-2, paragraph (1), (2) or (4) of the Supplementary Provisions, limited to the case where, at the time the request under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article was made, the person was not an insured and was either in a state of having a disability or had an insured period of 44 years or more), the amount obtained by subtracting the amount specified by Cabinet Order from the amount prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions, calculated based on the insured period that is the basis for calculating the amount of that employees' old-age pension (hereinafter referred to in this Article as the "early payment adjustment amount"), is added to the amount of that employees' old-age pension.

②The provisions of Article 43, paragraph (3) do not apply to the early payment adjustment amount.

③If, in the month that includes the day on which a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension to which an early payment adjustment amount (limited to one for which the number of months of the insured period that is the basis for its calculation is less than 480; the same applies in the following paragraph) has been added reaches the age listed in the lower column of the table in each paragraph of Article 8-2 of the Supplementary Provisions, the number of months of the insured period before the month that includes the day on which the person reached that age (if that number of months exceeds 480, it is 480) exceeds the number of months of the insured period that is the basis for calculating that early payment adjustment amount, then, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), the early payment adjustment amount is the amount obtained by adding, to the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, the amount prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions calculated based on the insured period for the excess number of months, and that amount is revised from the month following the month that includes the day on which the person reached that age.

④If, for a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension to which an early payment adjustment amount has been added, the amount of that pension (excluding the early payment adjustment amount) is revised pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (3) on or after the month following the month that includes the day on which the person reached the age listed in the lower column of the table in each paragraph of Article 8-2 of the Supplementary Provisions, then, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) and paragraph (3), the amount prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions, calculated based on the insured period for the number of months obtained by subtracting the number of months of the insured period that is the basis for calculating that early payment adjustment amount from the number of months of the insured period that is the basis for calculating the amount of the employees' old-age pension relating to that revision (excluding the early payment adjustment amount) (if that number of months exceeds 480, it is 480), is to be added for that early payment adjustment amount, and its amount is to be revised at the same time as that revision.

⑥Payment of the portion equivalent to the early payment adjustment amount of an employees' old-age pension to which an early payment adjustment amount has been added (excluding one to which an early payment adjustment amount has been added by reason of the person being a person prescribed in Article 8-2, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions; the same applies in the following paragraph and paragraph (8)) is suspended, with respect to its beneficiary, in the month that includes the day on which the person is an insured, etc.

⑦If a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension to which an early payment adjustment amount has been added (limited to a person whose combined period as an insured mine worker and period as a mariner insured is 15 years or more; the same applies in the following paragraph) reaches the age listed in the lower column of the table in Article 8-2, paragraph (1) or (2) of the Supplementary Provisions, and the amount of pension is revised pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (5) of the preceding Article, then, on or after the month in which that revision is made, that employees' old-age pension is deemed, for the purposes of the application of the provisions of paragraph (8) of the preceding Article and the preceding paragraph, to be an employees' old-age pension to which an early payment adjustment amount has been added by reason of the person being a person prescribed in Article 8-2, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions.

⑧The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis where the amount of pension is revised pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (3) for a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension to which an early payment adjustment amount has been added.

⑨With respect to an employees' old-age pension whose amount is added to pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), when its beneficiary reaches the age of 65, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph, the early payment adjustment amount in that paragraph pertaining to that person is not added, and the amount of pension is revised from the month following the month that includes the day on which the person reached the age of 65.