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National Pension Act

国民年金法(こくみんねんきんほう)

Chapter III Benefits (Articles 27-6 to 30)

The law as Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc., and Other Matters, to Strengthen the Functions of the Pension System in Light of Socioeconomic Changes (Act No. 74 of 2025) leaves it, with the words it changes marked.

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Article 27-6第二十七条の六Caption added

Additional Amount

加算額

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Article 27-6, paragraph (1)(加算額)Additional AmountAdded

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.

老齢基礎年金の額は、受給権者がその権利を取得した当時その者によつて生計を維持していたその者の子(十八歳に達する日以後の最初の三月三十一日までの間にある子及び二十歳未満であつて第三十条第二項に規定する障害等級(以下この条において単に「障害等級」という。)に該当する障害の状態にある子に限る。)があるときは、第二十七条の規定にかかわらず、同条に定める額にその子一人につきそれぞれ二十六万九千六百円に改定率(第二十七条の三及び前条の規定の適用がないものとして改定した改定率とする。次項において同じ。)を乗じて得た額(その額に五十円未満の端数が生じたときは、これを切り捨て、五十円以上百円未満の端数が生じたときは、これを百円に切り上げるものとする。次項において同じ。)を加算した額とする。ただし、当該子が次の各号のいずれかに該当するときは、当該各号のいずれかに該当する期間、当該子について加算する額に相当する部分の支給を停止する。

Article 27-6, paragraph (1), item (i)(加算額)Additional AmountAdded

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);

日本国内に住所を有しないとき(外国において留学をする学生その他の日本国内に住所を有しないが渡航目的その他の事情を考慮して日本国内に生活の基礎があると認められる者として厚生労働省令で定める者であるときを除く。)。

Article 27-6, paragraph (1), item (ii)(加算額)Additional AmountAdded

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).

厚生年金保険法第四十四条第一項又は第六十二条の二第一項の規定による加算その他政令で定める加算が行われている子であるとき(当該子について加算する額に相当する部分の全額につき支給を停止されているときを除く。)。

Article 27-6, paragraph (2)(加算額)Additional AmountAdded

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:

前項の規定により加算する額は、次に掲げる月数を合算した月数が三百に満たない者に支給する場合は、同項の規定にかかわらず、二十六万九千六百円に改定率を乗じて得た額に、当該合算した月数を三百で除して得た数を乗じて得た額とする。

Article 27-6, paragraph (2), item (i)(加算額)Additional AmountAdded

The number of months of premium-paid periods;

保険料納付済期間の月数

Article 27-6, paragraph (2), item (ii)(加算額)Additional AmountAdded

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

保険料四分の一免除期間の月数

Article 27-6, paragraph (2), item (iii)(加算額)Additional AmountAdded

The number of months of half premium exemption periods;

保険料半額免除期間の月数

Article 27-6, paragraph (2), item (iv)(加算額)Additional AmountAdded

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

保険料四分の三免除期間の月数

Article 27-6, paragraph (2), item (v)(加算額)Additional AmountAdded

The number of months of full premium exemption periods.

保険料全額免除期間の月数

Article 27-6, paragraph (3)(加算額)Additional AmountAdded

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.

受給権者がその権利を取得した当時胎児であつた子が生まれたときは、第一項の規定の適用については、その子は、受給権者がその権利を取得した当時その者によつて生計を維持していた子とみなし、その生まれた日の属する月の翌月から、老齢基礎年金の額を改定する。

Article 27-6, paragraph (4)(加算額)Additional AmountAdded

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:

第一項の規定によりその額が加算された老齢基礎年金については、子のうちの一人又は二人以上が次の各号のいずれかに該当するに至つたときは、その該当するに至つた日の属する月の翌月から、その該当するに至つた子の数に応じて、年金額を改定する。

Article 27-6, paragraph (4), item (i)(加算額)Additional AmountAdded

When the child has died;

死亡したとき。

Article 27-6, paragraph (4), item (ii)(加算額)Additional AmountAdded

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

受給権者による生計維持の状態がやんだとき。

Article 27-6, paragraph (4), item (iii)(加算額)Additional AmountAdded

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);

婚姻(届出をしていないが、事実上婚姻関係と同様の事情にある場合を含む。以下同じ。)をしたとき。

Article 27-6, paragraph (4), item (iv)(加算額)Additional AmountAdded

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;

受給権者の配偶者以外の者の養子(届出をしていないが、事実上養子縁組関係と同様の事情にある者を含む。以下同じ。)となつたとき。

Article 27-6, paragraph (4), item (v)(加算額)Additional AmountAdded

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

離縁によつて、受給権者の子でなくなつたとき。

Article 27-6, paragraph (4), item (vi)(加算額)Additional AmountAdded

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;

十八歳に達した日以後の最初の三月三十一日が終了したとき。ただし、障害等級に該当する障害の状態にあるときを除く。

Article 27-6, paragraph (4), item (vii)(加算額)Additional AmountAdded

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;

障害等級に該当する障害の状態にある子について、その事情がやんだとき。ただし、その子が十八歳に達する日以後の最初の三月三十一日までの間にあるときを除く。

Article 27-6, paragraph (4), item (viii)(加算額)Additional AmountAdded

When the child has reached 20 years of age.

二十歳に達したとき。

Article 27-6, paragraph (5)(加算額)Additional AmountAdded

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.

第一項又は前項第二号の規定の適用上、老齢基礎年金の受給権者によつて生計を維持していたこと又はその者による生計維持の状態がやんだことの認定に関し必要な事項は、政令で定める。

Article 28第二十八条

Deferment of Payment(支給の繰下げ)
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Article 28, paragraph (1)(支給の繰下げ)Deferment of PaymentChanged

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.

老齢基礎年金の受給権を有する者であつて六十六歳に達する前に当該老齢基礎年金を請求していなかつたものは、厚生労働大臣に当該老齢基礎年金の支給繰下げの申出をすることができる。ただし、その者が六十五歳に達したときに、他の年金たる給付(他の年金給付(付加年金を除く。)又は厚生年金保険法による年金たる保険給付(老齢を支給事由とするものを除く。)障害厚生年金をいう。以下この条において同じ。)の受給権者であつたとき、又は六十五歳に達した日から六十六歳に達した日までの間において他の年金たる給付の受給権者となつたときは、この限りでない。

Article 28, paragraph (2)(支給の繰下げ)

When a person listed in the following items makes the request under the preceding paragraph (excluding that request in a case where the request under the preceding paragraph is deemed, under the provisions of paragraph (5), to have been made; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) after the day the person reached 66 years of age, the request under the preceding paragraph is deemed to have been made on the day specified in the relevant item.

六十六歳に達した日後に次の各号に掲げる者が前項の申出(第五項の規定により前項の申出があつたものとみなされた場合における当該申出を除く。以下この項において同じ。)をしたときは、当該各号に定める日において、前項の申出があつたものとみなす。

Article 28, paragraph (2), item (i)(支給の繰下げ)

A person who became a person entitled to receive another benefit that is a pension before the day of reaching 75 years of age: the day on which the grounds for paying that other benefit that is a pension arose;

七十五歳に達する日前に他の年金たる給付の受給権者となつた者 他の年金たる給付を支給すべき事由が生じた日

Article 28, paragraph (2), item (ii)(支給の繰下げ)

A person who is after the day of reaching 75 years of age (excluding a person falling under the preceding item): the day of reaching 75 years of age.

七十五歳に達した日後にある者(前号に該当する者を除く。) 七十五歳に達した日

Article 28, paragraph (3)(支給の繰下げ)

Payment of the old-age basic pension to a person who has made the request under paragraph (1) (including that request in a case where the request under paragraph (1) is deemed, under the provisions of paragraph (5), to have been made; the same applies in the following paragraph) is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (1), to begin from the month following the month in which the day of that request falls.

第一項の申出(第五項の規定により第一項の申出があつたものとみなされた場合における当該申出を含む。次項において同じ。)をした者に対する老齢基礎年金の支給は、第十八条第一項の規定にかかわらず、当該申出のあつた日の属する月の翌月から始めるものとする。

Article 28, paragraph (4)(支給の繰下げ)Deferment of PaymentChanged

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.

第一項の申出をした者に支給する老齢基礎年金の額は、第二十七条及び前条の規定にかかわらず、同条これらの規定に定める額に政令で定める額を加算した額とする。

Article 28, paragraph (5)(支給の繰下げ)

When a person who may make a request to defer payment of an old-age basic pension under the provisions of paragraph (1) claims that old-age basic pension after the day of reaching 70 years of age, and does not make the request under that paragraph at the time of that claim, the request under that paragraph is deemed to have been made on the day five years before the day of that claim. However, this does not apply where that person falls under any of the following items.

第一項の規定により老齢基礎年金の支給繰下げの申出をすることができる者が、七十歳に達した日後に当該老齢基礎年金を請求し、かつ、当該請求の際に同項の申出をしないときは、当該請求をした日の五年前の日に同項の申出があつたものとみなす。ただし、その者が次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合は、この限りでない。

Article 28, paragraph (5), item (i)(支給の繰下げ)

When the person is on or after the day of reaching 80 years of age;

八十歳に達した日以後にあるとき。

Article 28, paragraph (5), item (ii)(支給の繰下げ)

When the person became a person entitled to receive another benefit that is a pension during the period from the day of reaching 65 years of age to the day five years before the day of that claim.

六十五歳に達した日から当該請求をした日の五年前の日までの間において他の年金たる給付の受給権者となつたとき。

Article 29第二十九条

Forfeiture of Right(失権)
Article 29, paragraph (1)

The right to receive an old-age basic pension is extinguished when the person entitled to receive it dies.

老齢基礎年金の受給権は、受給権者が死亡したときは、消滅する。

Article 29-2第二十九条の二Caption added

Suspension of Payment of the Additional Amount

加算額の支給停止

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Article 29-2, paragraph (1)(加算額の支給停止)Suspension of Payment of the Additional AmountAdded

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.

第二十七条の六第一項の規定により子についてその額が加算された老齢基礎年金については、政令で定めるところにより、受給権者の配偶者その他政令で定める者(以下この条において「配偶者等」という。)が次の各号のいずれにも該当するときは、その該当する期間、同項の規定により当該子について加算する額(配偶者等に支給する第一号に規定する加算の額に限る。)に相当する部分の支給を停止する。

Article 29-2, paragraph (1), item (i)(加算額の支給停止)Suspension of Payment of the Additional AmountAdded

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);

当該子について第二十七条の六第一項若しくは第三十三条の二第一項又は厚生年金保険法第四十四条第一項若しくは第五十条の二第一項の規定による加算その他政令で定める加算が行われているとき(当該子について加算する額に相当する部分の全額につき支給を停止されているときを除く。)。

Article 29-2, paragraph (1), item (ii)(加算額の支給停止)Suspension of Payment of the Additional AmountAdded

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

当該子について主として生計を維持しているとき。

Article 29-2, paragraph (2)(加算額の支給停止)Suspension of Payment of the Additional AmountAdded

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.

前項第二号の規定の適用上、配偶者等によつて主として生計を維持していることの認定に関し必要な事項は、政令で定める。

Section 3 Disability Basic Pension第三節 障害基礎年金

Article 30第三十条

Requirement for Payment(支給要件)
Article 30, paragraph (1)

A disability basic pension is paid to a person who has suffered an illness or been injured, and who, on the date of first receiving medical examination or treatment from a physician or dentist for that illness or injury and an illness resulting from it (hereinafter referred to as "injury or illness") (hereinafter referred to as the "date of first medical examination"), fell under any of the following items, when, on the day on which one year and six months have elapsed, calculated from that date of first medical examination (or, where that injury or illness was cured within that period, the day it was cured (including the day on which the symptoms became fixed and no further therapeutic effect could be expected); hereinafter referred to as the "disability recognition date"), that person is, because of that injury or illness, in a state of disability to the extent of falling under the disability grade prescribed in the following paragraph. However, this does not apply where, on the day preceding the date of first medical examination relating to that injury or illness, the person had an insured period up to the month two months before the month in which that date of first medical examination falls, and the period obtained by combining the premium-paid period and the premium exemption period relating to that insured period is less than two-thirds of that insured period.

障害基礎年金は、疾病にかかり、又は負傷し、かつ、その疾病又は負傷及びこれらに起因する疾病(以下「傷病」という。)について初めて医師又は歯科医師の診療を受けた日(以下「初診日」という。)において次の各号のいずれかに該当した者が、当該初診日から起算して一年六月を経過した日(その期間内にその傷病が治つた場合においては、その治つた日(その症状が固定し治療の効果が期待できない状態に至つた日を含む。)とし、以下「障害認定日」という。)において、その傷病により次項に規定する障害等級に該当する程度の障害の状態にあるときに、その者に支給する。ただし、当該傷病に係る初診日の前日において、当該初診日の属する月の前々月までに被保険者期間があり、かつ、当該被保険者期間に係る保険料納付済期間と保険料免除期間とを合算した期間が当該被保険者期間の三分の二に満たないときは、この限りでない。

Article 30, paragraph (1), item (i)

Being an insured person;

被保険者であること。

Article 30, paragraph (1), item (ii)

Being a person who was an insured person, who has a domicile in Japan, and who is 60 years of age or older but under 65 years of age.

被保険者であつた者であつて、日本国内に住所を有し、かつ、六十歳以上六十五歳未満であること。

Article 30, paragraph (2)

The disability grade is, according to the degree of disability, Grade 1 and Grade 2 in order from the most severe, and the state of disability for each grade is specified by Cabinet Order.

障害等級は、障害の程度に応じて重度のものから一級及び二級とし、各級の障害の状態は、政令で定める。

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