Supplementary Provisions, Article 7-4Adjustment of Employees' Old-Age Pension Paid Early with Basic Allowance, etc.

①An employees' old-age pension under the provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article is suspended in each month from the month following the month that includes the day on which its beneficiary (limited to a person who has the recipient qualification prescribed in Article 14, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Employment Insurance Act (Act No. 116 of 1974) and is under the age of 65) made an application for employment pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (2) of that Act until the month in which the person comes to fall under any of the following items:

②If, for the months from the month following the month in which the application for employment prescribed in the preceding paragraph was made until the month in which the person came to fall under any of the items of that paragraph, there is a month falling under any of the following items, the provisions of that paragraph do not apply to the employees' old-age pension for that month:

③If a person has come to fall under any of the items of paragraph (1), and the number obtained by subtracting the number obtained by dividing by 30 the number of days that are deemed, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribed in item (i) of the preceding paragraph, to be days on which the beneficiary of the employees' old-age pension received payment of the basic allowance (if a fraction of less than one arises, it is rounded up to one) from the number of the months, among the months from the month following the month in which the application for employment prescribed in that paragraph was made until the month in which the person came to fall under any of the items of that paragraph, in which payment of the employees' old-age pension was suspended pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as "months of pension suspension") is one or more, then for the most recent months of pension suspension, corresponding to the number of months equal to the number so obtained by subtraction, the suspension of payment of the employees' old-age pension under the provisions of paragraph (1) is deemed not to have been carried out.

④If a person who has the recipient qualification prescribed in Article 14, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Employment Insurance Act and has made an application for employment pursuant to the provisions of Article 15, paragraph (2) of that Act (limited to a person who has not come to fall under any of the items of paragraph (1)) acquires the right to receive benefits from an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article, payment of that employees' old-age pension is suspended in each month from the month following the month in which the person acquired that right until the month in which the person comes to fall under any of the items of paragraph (1).

⑤The provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph. In such a case, the phrase "the month in which the application for employment prescribed in the preceding paragraph was made" in paragraph (2) is deemed to be replaced with "the month in which the person prescribed in paragraph (4) acquired the right to receive benefits from an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article", the phrase "the items of that paragraph" with "the items of the preceding paragraph", and the phrase "the provisions of that paragraph" with "the provisions of paragraph (4)"; and the phrase "the month in which the application for employment prescribed in that paragraph was made" in paragraph (3) is deemed to be replaced with "the month in which the person prescribed in the following paragraph acquired the right to receive benefits from an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article", the phrase "the items of that paragraph" with "the items of paragraph (1)", the phrase "the provisions of that paragraph" with "the provisions of the following paragraph", and the phrase "the provisions of paragraph (1)" with "the provisions of the following paragraph".