Supplementary Provisions, Article 2Lower Limit of the Benefit Level
第二条（給付水準の下限）
With respect to benefits in the form of pensions under the National Pension Act and pension insurance benefits under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, a benefit level such that the ratio of the amount obtained by adding together the amount listed in item (i) and the amount listed in item (ii) to the amount listed in item (iii) exceeds 50 percent is to be secured into the future.
the amount equivalent to the amount obtained by multiplying by two the amount obtained by dividing by 12 the amount obtained by adjusting the amount of the old-age basic pension under the National Pension Act for the relevant fiscal year (meaning the amount calculated for a beneficiary who reaches 65 years of age in the relevant fiscal year and for whom the number of months of the premium-paid period is 480) in consideration of the trend of the average standardized amount of remuneration for insureds (meaning the average standardized amount of remuneration for insureds prescribed in Article 43-2, paragraph (1), item (ii), (a) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act) up to the year before the relevant fiscal year;
当該年度における国民年金法による老齢基礎年金の額（当該年度において六十五歳に達し、かつ、保険料納付済期間の月数が四百八十である受給権者について計算される額とする。）を当該年度の前年度までの標準報酬平均額（厚生年金保険法第四十三条の二第一項第二号イに規定する標準報酬平均額をいう。）の推移を勘案して調整した額を十二で除して得た額に二を乗じて得た額に相当する額
the amount equivalent to the amount obtained by dividing by 12 the amount of the employees' old-age pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act for the relevant fiscal year (meaning the amount calculated following the example of the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1) of that Act, taking as the average standardized amount of remuneration the amount obtained by multiplying the amount equivalent to the average standard remuneration amount of an insured under that Act who is male (referred to in the following item as a "male insured person") in the year before the relevant fiscal year (meaning the amount obtained by adding together the standardized monthly amount of remuneration under that Act and the amount obtained by dividing the total of the standardized amounts of bonuses by 12; the same applies in the following item) by the revaluation rate relating to the standardized monthly amount of remuneration or the standardized amount of bonuses for a month belonging to the year before the relevant fiscal year (meaning the revaluation rate prescribed in Article 43, paragraph (1) of that Act, and to be that applied to a beneficiary who reaches 65 years of age in the relevant fiscal year), and taking the number of months of the insured period to be 480); and
当該年度における厚生年金保険法による老齢厚生年金の額（当該年度の前年度における男子である同法による被保険者（次号において「男子被保険者」という。）の平均的な標準報酬額（同法による標準報酬月額と標準賞与額の総額を十二で除して得た額とを合算して得た額をいう。次号において同じ。）に相当する額に当該年度の前年度に属する月の標準報酬月額又は標準賞与額に係る再評価率（同法第四十三条第一項に規定する再評価率をいい、当該年度に六十五歳に達する受給権者に適用されるものとする。）を乗じて得た額を平均標準報酬額とし、被保険者期間の月数を四百八十として同項の規定の例により計算した額とする。）を十二で除して得た額に相当する額
the amount equivalent to the amount obtained by deducting the amount of taxes and other public charges relating to that amount from the amount equivalent to the average standard remuneration amount of a male insured person in the year before the relevant fiscal year.
The government is, when preparing the current budget status and projections report concerning the National Pension program under the provisions of Article 4-3, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act as amended by Article 1, or the current budget status and projections report concerning employees' pension insurance services under the provisions of Article 2-4, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by Article 7, where it is projected that the ratio prescribed in the preceding paragraph will fall below 50 percent before the next current budget status and projections report is prepared, to review, in keeping with the purpose of the provisions of that paragraph, the end of the term under adjustment prescribed in Article 16-2, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act as amended by Article 1, or Article 34, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act as amended by Article 7, and to take the end of the term under adjustment or other measures based on the result of that review.
政府は、第一条の規定による改正後の国民年金法第四条の三第一項の規定による国民年金事業に関する財政の現況及び見通し又は第七条の規定による改正後の厚生年金保険法第二条の四第一項の規定による厚生年金保険事業に関する財政の現況及び見通しの作成に当たり、次の財政の現況及び見通しが作成されるまでの間に前項に規定する比率が百分の五十を下回ることが見込まれる場合には、同項の規定の趣旨にのっとり、第一条の規定による改正後の国民年金法第十六条の二第一項又は第七条の規定による改正後の厚生年金保険法第三十四条第一項に規定する調整期間の終了について検討を行い、その結果に基づいて調整期間の終了その他の措置を講ずるものとする。
The government is, when taking the measures under the preceding paragraph, to review the state of benefits and the burden of costs, and to take the necessary measures.
政府は、前項の措置を講ずる場合には、給付及び費用負担の在り方について検討を行い、所要の措置を講ずるものとする。