国民年金法（こくみんねんきんほう）

A number of months corresponding to one-half of the number of months of the full premium exemption period (excluding one relating to a premium that a person has been made not required to pay under the provisions of Article 90-3, paragraph (1)) (; the same applies in Article 27-6, paragraph (2), item (v)) (the number of months obtained by deducting, from 480, the number of months obtained by combining the number of months of the premium-paid periodsperiod, the number of months of the one-quarter premium exemption period, the number of months of the half premium exemption periodsperiod, and the number of months of the three-quarter premium exemption period, being the maximum).

If the person entitled to receive a benefit has a child of that person (limited to a child who is in the period until the first March 31 on or after the day on which the child reaches 18 years of age, and a child who is under 20 years of age and in a state of disability corresponding to the disability grade prescribed in Article 30, paragraph (2) (hereinafter in this Article simply referred to as the "disability grade")) whom that person was maintaining a livelihood for at the time the person entitled to receive a benefit acquired that right, the amount of the old-age basic pension is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 27, the amount obtained by adding, to the amount specified in that Article, the amount obtained by multiplying 269,600 yen for each such child by the revision rate (meaning the revision rate as revised on the assumption that the provisions of Article 27-3 and the preceding Article do not apply; the same applies in the following paragraph) (if a fraction of less than 50 yen arises in that amount, it is rounded down, and if a fraction of 50 yen or more but less than 100 yen arises, it is rounded up to 100 yen; the same applies in the following paragraph); provided, however, that if that child falls under any of the following items, payment of the part corresponding to the amount added for that child is suspended for the period during which the child falls under any of those items.

When the child does not have an address in Japan (excluding when the child is a student studying abroad or any other person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a person who does not have an address in Japan but is found, in consideration of the purpose of travel and other circumstances, to have the basis of daily life in Japan);

When the child is a child for whom an addition under Article 44, paragraph (1) or Article 62-2, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or any other addition specified by Cabinet Order, is made (excluding when the whole amount of the part corresponding to the amount added for that child is suspended from payment).

The amount added under the preceding paragraph is, in the case of payment to a person for whom the total of the following numbers of months is less than 300, notwithstanding that paragraph, the amount obtained by multiplying the amount obtained by multiplying 269,600 yen by the revision rate, by the number obtained by dividing that total number of months by 300:

The number of months of premium-paid periods;

The number of months of one-quarter premium exemption periods;

The number of months of half premium exemption periods;

The number of months of three-quarter premium exemption periods;

The number of months of full premium exemption periods.

When a child who was an unborn child at the time the person entitled to receive a benefit acquired that right is born, for the purpose of the application of the provisions of paragraph (1), that child is deemed to be a child whom the person entitled to receive a benefit was maintaining a livelihood for at the time the person entitled to receive a benefit acquired that right, and the amount of the old-age basic pension is revised from the month following the month containing the day of that birth.

With respect to an old-age basic pension whose amount has been added to under the provisions of paragraph (1), when one or two or more of the children come to fall under any of the following items, the amount of the pension is revised from the month following the month containing the day of coming to fall under that item, according to the number of children who have come to fall under it:

When the child has died;

When the state of being maintained in livelihood by the person entitled to receive a benefit has ceased;

When the child has married (including a case of being in circumstances equivalent in fact to a de facto marital relationship without notification having been made; hereinafter the same applies);

When the child has become the adopted child (including a person who, without notification having been made, is in circumstances equivalent in fact to an adoptive relationship; hereinafter the same applies) of a person other than the spouse of the person entitled to receive a benefit;

When the child has ceased to be the child of the person entitled to receive a benefit due to the dissolution of adoption;

When the first March 31 on or after the day on which the child reached 18 years of age has ended; provided, however, that this excludes when the child is in a state of disability corresponding to the disability grade;

When, with respect to a child in a state of disability corresponding to the disability grade, that circumstance has ceased; provided, however, that this excludes when the child is in the period until the first March 31 on or after the day on which the child reaches 18 years of age;

When the child has reached 20 years of age.

Necessary matters concerning the certification of having been maintained in livelihood by a person entitled to receive an old-age basic pension, or of the cessation of the state of being maintained in livelihood by that person, for the purpose of the application of paragraph (1) or item (ii) of the preceding paragraph, are specified by Cabinet Order.

A person who has the right to receive an old-age basic pension and who has not claimed that old-age basic pension before reaching 66 years of age may make a request to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to defer payment of that old-age basic pension. However, this does not apply where, when that person reached 65 years of age, the person was a person entitled to receive another benefit that is a pension (meaning another pension benefit (excluding the additional pension) or an insurance benefit that is aa disability employees' pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (excluding one for which old age is the ground for payment); the same applies hereinafter in this Article), or where the person became a person entitled to receive another benefit that is a pension during the period from the day the person reached 65 years of age to the day the person reached 66 years of age.

The amount of the old-age basic pension paid to a person who has made the request under paragraph (1) is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 27 and the preceding Article, the amount obtained by adding, to the amount specified in that Articlethese provisions, an amount specified by Cabinet Order.

With respect to an old-age basic pension whose amount has been added to for a child under Article 27-6, paragraph (1), when the spouse of the person entitled to receive a benefit or any other person specified by Cabinet Order (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "spouse, etc.") falls under all of the following items, as specified by Cabinet Order, payment of the part corresponding to the amount added for that child under that paragraph (limited to the amount of the addition prescribed in item (i) paid to the spouse, etc.) is suspended for the period during which the spouse, etc. falls under those items.

When an addition under Article 27-6, paragraph (1) or Article 33-2, paragraph (1), or Article 44, paragraph (1) or Article 50-2, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or any other addition specified by Cabinet Order, is made for that child (excluding when the whole amount of the part corresponding to the amount added for that child is suspended from payment);

When the spouse, etc. is mainly maintaining a livelihood for that child.

Necessary matters concerning the certification of mainly being maintained in livelihood by the spouse, etc., for the purpose of the application of item (ii) of the preceding paragraph, are specified by Cabinet Order.

The amount of the disability basic pension is, when there is a child of the person entitled to receive it whose livelihood is maintained by that person (limited to a child who is in the period up to the first March 31 on or after the day of reaching 18 years of age, and a child who is under 20 years of age and in a state of disability falling under the disability grade), notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, the amount obtained by adding, to the amount specified in that Article, the amount obtained by multiplying 74,900269,600 yen by the revision rate (meaning the revision rate as revised on the assumption that the provisions of Article 27-3 and Article 27-5 do not apply; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) for each such child (for up to two of them, the amount obtained by multiplying 224,700 yen by the revision rate for each; if a fraction of less than 50 yen arises in those amountsthat amount, it is to be rounded down, and if a fraction of 50 yen or more but less than 100 yen arises, it is to be rounded up to 100 yen). However, when that child falls under any of the following items, the payment of the part corresponding to the amount added for that child is suspended for the period during which the child falls under any of those items.

When the child does not have an address in Japan (excluding when the child is a student studying abroad or any other person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a person who does not have an address in Japan but is found, in consideration of the purpose of travel and other circumstances, to have the basis of daily life in Japan);

When the child is a child for whom an addition under Article 44, paragraph (1), Article 50-2, paragraph (1), or Article 62-2, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or any other addition specified by Cabinet Order, is made (excluding when the whole amount of the part corresponding to the amount added for that child is suspended from payment).

With respect to a disability basic pension whose amount has been increased under theThe provisions of paragraph (1), when one or two or more of the children comeArticle 27-6, paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to fall under any of the following items, the amount of thea disability basic pension is revised, according to the number of children who have come to fall under it, from the month following the month in which the day of comingwhose amount has been added to fall under it fallsparagraph (1).

When the child has died;

When the state of the child's livelihood being maintained by the person entitled to receive the benefit has ceased;

When the child has married;

When the child has become the adopted child of a person other than the spouse of the person entitled to receive the benefit;

When the child has ceased to be the child of the person entitled to receive the benefit as a result of dissolution of adoption;

When the first March 31 on or after the day of reaching 18 years of age has ended; provided, however, that this excludes a case where the child is in a state of disability falling under the disability grade;

When, with respect to a child in a state of disability falling under the disability grade, that circumstance has ceased; provided, however, that this excludes a case where the child is in the period up to the first March 31 on or after the day of reaching 18 years of age;

When the child has reached 20 years of age.

For the purposes of applying the provisions of paragraph (1) or Article 27-6, paragraph (4), item (ii) ofas applied mutatis mutandis under the preceding paragraph, the matters necessary for determining whether a child's livelihood is maintained by the person entitled to receive the disability basic pension, or whether the state of that person maintaining the child's livelihood has ceased, are specified by Cabinet Order.

The provisions of Article 29-2 apply mutatis mutandis to a disability basic pension whose amount has been added to under Article 33-2, paragraph (1).

The amount of the survivors' basic pension paid to the spouse is, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, the amount obtained by adding, to the amount specified in that Article, the amount obtained by multiplying 74,900269,600 yen by the revision rate (meaning the revision rate as revised on the assumption that the provisions of Article 27-3 and Article 27-5 do not apply; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) for each child who, at the time the spouse acquired the right to receive the survivors' basic pension, fell under the requirement prescribed in Article 37-2, paragraph (1) and shared had been sharing a livelihood with that person (for up to two of them, the amount obtained by multiplying 224,700 yen by the revision rate for each; if a fraction of less than 50 yen arises in those amountsthat amount, it is to be rounded down, and if a fraction of 50 yen or more but less than 100 yen arises, it is to be rounded up to 100 yen). However, when that child falls under any of the following items, the payment of the part corresponding to the amount added for that child is suspended for the period during which the child falls under any of those items.

When the child does not have an address in Japan (excluding when the child is a student studying abroad or any other person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a person who does not have an address in Japan but is found, in consideration of the purpose of travel and other circumstances, to have the basis of daily life in Japan);

When the child is a child for whom an addition under Article 62-2, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or any other addition specified by Cabinet Order, is made (excluding when the whole amount of the part corresponding to the amount added for that child is suspended from payment).

When a child who was an unborn child at the time the spouse acquired the right to receive the survivors' basic pension is born, for the purposes of applying the provisions of the preceding paragraph, that child is deemed to be a child who, at the time the spouse acquired that right, fell under the requirement prescribed in Article 37-2, paragraph (1) and sharedhad been sharing a livelihood with that person, and the amount of the survivors' basic pension is revised from the month following the month in which the day of that birth falls.

When the child has married (including a case of being, without notification of marriage having been made, in circumstances equivalent to a de facto marital relationship; the same applies hereinafter);

When the child has become the adopted child (including a person who, without notification of adoption having been made, is in circumstances equivalent to a de facto adoptive relationship; the same applies hereinafter) of a person other than the spouse;

The amount of the survivors' basic pension paid to a child is, when there are two or more children who have acquired the right to receive the survivors' basic pension with respect to the death of that insured person or person who was an insured person, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 38, the amount obtained by dividing, by the number of those children, the amount obtained by adding, to the amount specified in that Article, the amount obtained by multiplying 74,900269,600 yen by the revision rate (meaning the revision rate as revised on the assumption that the provisions of Article 27-3 and Article 27-5 do not apply; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) for each of those children excluding one of them (for one of them, the amount obtained by multiplying 224,700 yen by the revision rate; if a fraction of less than 50 yen arises in those amountsthat amount, it is to be rounded down, and if a fraction of 50 yen or more but less than 100 yen arises, it is to be rounded up to 100 yen). However, when that child falls under any of the following items, the payment of the part corresponding to the amount added for that child is suspended for the period during which the child falls under any of those items.

When the child does not have an address in Japan (excluding when the child is a student studying abroad or any other person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as a person who does not have an address in Japan but is found, in consideration of the purpose of travel and other circumstances, to have the basis of daily life in Japan);

When the child is receiving a survivors' employees' pension whose amount has been added to under Article 62-3, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, or any other insurance benefit in the form of a pension for which death is the ground for payment that is specified by Cabinet Order (excluding when the whole amount of the part corresponding to the amount added for that child is suspended from payment).

Payment of a survivors' basic pension to a child is suspended during the period in which the spouse has the right to receive a survivors' basic pension (excluding a case where payment of the survivors' basic pension to the spouse is suspended under Article 20-2, paragraph (1) or (2), or under paragraph (1) of the following Article), or in which there is a father or mother of the child who shares a livelihood with the child.

The provisions of Article 28, paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the amount of the additional pension paid under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "Article 27 and the preceding Article" in paragraph (4) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 44", and the term "these provisions" is deemed to be replaced with "that Article".

The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply where a child of the person who died prescribed in paragraph (1) has acquired the right to receive a survivors' basic pension by reason of that person's death (excluding a case where the spouse of that person has acquired the right to receive a survivors' basic pension by reason of that person's death), and payment of that survivors' basic pension is suspended under Article 41, paragraph (2) because there is a father or mother of the child who shares a livelihood with the child at the time the right to receive it was acquired.

The surviving family members who are able to receive the death lump-sum payment are the spouse, children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents, or siblings of the person who died, who shared a livelihood with that person at the time of that person's death; provided, however, that the surviving family member who is able to receive the death lump-sum payment paid in a case falling under paragraph (3) of the preceding Article is the spouse of the person who died, who shared a livelihood with that person at the time of that person's death.

The order of the persons who are to receive the death lump-sum payment (excluding one prescribed in the proviso to the preceding paragraph; the same applies in the following paragraph) is in accordance with the order prescribed in the preceding paragraph.

A mayor of a municipality (in the case of a designated city under Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act, the head of a ward or the head of a comprehensive ward) may, for the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, or for an insured person, a person who had been an insured person, or a person entitled to receive a benefit, provide, free of charge, certification concerning the family register of an insured person, a person who had been an insured person, or a person entitled to receive a benefit, or a child who falls under the requirements for payment of the survivors' basic pension or for addition to the amount of the old-age basic pension, the disability basic pension, or the survivors' basic pension, as specified by the ordinance of that municipality.

The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, when the Minister finds it necessary, order a child whose amount of the old-age basic pension is increased by reason of being in a state of disability falling under the disability grade, a person entitled to receive the disability basic pension, or a child whose amount is increased by reason of being in a state of disability falling under the disability grade, or a child who has the right to receive the survivors' basic pension, or to whom the survivors' basic pension is paid, or whose amount is increased, by reason of being in a state of disability falling under the disability grade, to undergo diagnosis by a physician or dentist designated by the Minister, or have the relevant official diagnose the state of disability of these persons.

Certification under Article 27-6, paragraph (5) and Article 29-2, paragraph (2);

The certification under Article 33-2, paragraph (4) and Article 29-2, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis under Article 36-5

Affairs pertaining to the suspension of payment of the part corresponding to the amount added for a child under the proviso to Article 27-6, paragraph (1) and Article 29-2, paragraph (1) (excluding a decision pertaining to that suspension of payment);

Affairs pertaining to the revision of the amount of an old-age basic pension under Article 27-6, paragraphs (3) and (4) (excluding certification under paragraph (5) of that Article and a decision pertaining to that revision);

The affairs concerning the suspension of payment of a disability basic pension under Article 32, paragraph (1), Article 36, paragraphs (1) and (2), Article 36-2, paragraphs (1) and (4), Article 36-3, paragraph (1), and Article 36-4, paragraphs (1) and (2) (excluding the decision concerning that suspension of payment), and the affairs concerning the suspension of payment of the part corresponding to the amount added for a child under the proviso to Article 33-2, paragraph (1), and Article 29-2, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis under Article 36-5 (excluding the decision concerning that suspension of payment)

The affairs concerning the revision of the amount of a disability basic pension under Article 33-2, paragraphsparagraph (2), and (3)Article 27-6, paragraph (4) as applied mutatis mutandis under paragraph (3) of that Article, and Article 34, paragraph (1) (excluding the certification listed in item (x) of Article 109-4, paragraph (1), the acceptance of claims listed in item (xi) of that paragraph, and the decision concerning that revision)

The affairs concerning the suspension of payment of a survivors' basic pension under Article 41, Article 41-2, and Article 42, paragraphs (1) and (2) (excluding the acceptance of applications listed in item (xiii) of Article 109-4, paragraph (1), and the decision concerning that suspension of payment), and the affairs concerning the suspension of payment of the part corresponding to the amount added for a child under the proviso to Article 39, paragraph (1) and the proviso to Article 39-2, paragraph (1) (excluding the decision concerning that suspension of payment)