If a person who has the right to receive the payment of insurance proceeds has died, and despite the fact that the right to receive the payment is extinguished, employees' pension insurance proceeds have been overpaid for the period after the month in which the date of the death is recorded, if there are any insurance proceeds that are to be paid to the person who is to perform obligations under the claim for the return of monies that has resulted from the overpayment (hereinafter referred to as the "claim for the return of monies" in this Article), the amount of payment under the insurance proceeds may be appropriated as the amount of the claim for the return of monies that resulted from the overpayment, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
年金たる保険給付を受ける権利を有する者が死亡したためその支給を受ける権利が消滅したにもかかわらず、その死亡の日の属する月の翌月以後の分として当該年金たる保険給付の過誤払が行われた場合において、当該過誤払による返還金に係る債権（以下この条において「返還金債権」という。）に係る債務の弁済をすべき者に支払うべき保険給付があるときは、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、当該保険給付の支払金の金額を当該過誤払による返還金債権の金額に充当することができる。