Supplementary Provisions, Article 2Lower Limit of the Benefit Level
第二条（給付水準の下限）
With respect to a benefit in the form of a pension under the National Pension Act and an insurance benefit in the form of a pension 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 of the old-age basic pension under the National Pension Act for the relevant fiscal year (meaning the amount calculated for a person entitled to receive a benefit who reaches 65 years of age in the relevant fiscal year and for whom the number of months of premium-paid periods is 480), as adjusted taking into consideration the trend of the standard remuneration average amount (meaning the standard remuneration average amount prescribed in Article 43-2, paragraph (1), item (ii), sub-item (a) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act) up to the fiscal year preceding the relevant fiscal year;
the amount equivalent to the amount obtained by dividing by 12 the amount of the old-age employees' pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act for the relevant fiscal year (meaning the amount calculated as provided for in that paragraph, taking the average standard remuneration amount to be the amount obtained by multiplying the amount equivalent to the average standard remuneration amount (meaning the amount obtained by adding together the standard monthly remuneration and the amount obtained by dividing the total amount of the standard bonus amount by 12, under that Act; the same applies in the following item) of an insured person under that Act who is male (referred to in the following item as a "male insured person") in the fiscal year preceding the relevant fiscal year, by the revaluation rate relating to the standard monthly remuneration or standard bonus amount for a month in the fiscal year preceding the relevant fiscal year (meaning the revaluation rate prescribed in Article 43, paragraph (1) of that Act, and taken to be that applied to a person entitled to receive a benefit 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 fiscal year preceding the relevant fiscal year.
当該年度の前年度における男子被保険者の平均的な標準報酬額に相当する額から当該額に係る公租公課の額を控除して得た額に相当する額
The government is, when preparing the current state and outlook of finances concerning the National Pension program under the provisions of Article 4-3, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act after the revision under the provisions of Article 1, or the current state and outlook of finances concerning the Employees' Pension Insurance program under the provisions of Article 2-4, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act after the revision under the provisions of Article 7, where it is projected that the ratio prescribed in the preceding paragraph will fall below 50 percent before the next current state and outlook of finances is prepared, to review, in keeping with the purpose of the provisions of that paragraph, the ending of the adjustment period prescribed in Article 16-2, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act after the revision under the provisions of Article 1, or Article 34, paragraph (1) of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act after the revision under the provisions of Article 7, and to take the ending of the adjustment period 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.