The surviving family members who are eligible to receive a compensation pension for surviving family is a worker's spouse, children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents, and siblings who were dependent on the worker's income at the time of their death; provided, however, that in the case of those other than a wife (including a person who did not register marriage but has been in a de facto marital relationship with the worker; the same applies hereinafter), this applies only where they have satisfied the requirements prescribed in any of the following items at the time of the worker's death:
遺族補償年金を受けることができる遺族は、労働者の配偶者、子、父母、孫、祖父母及び兄弟姉妹であつて、労働者の死亡の当時その収入によつて生計を維持していたものとする。ただし、妻（婚姻の届出をしていないが、事実上婚姻関係と同様の事情にあつた者を含む。以下同じ。）以外の者にあつては、労働者の死亡の当時次の各号に掲げる要件に該当した場合に限るものとする。
in the case of a husband (including a person who did not register marriage but has been in a de facto marital relationship with the worker; the same applies hereinafter), parents or grandparents: they are 60 years of age or older;
夫（婚姻の届出をしていないが、事実上婚姻関係と同様の事情にあつた者を含む。以下同じ。）、父母又は祖父母については、六十歳以上であること。
in the case of children or grandchildren: they must be in their age before the first March 31 after they turned 18 years of age;
子又は孫については、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こと。
in the case of siblings: they must be in their age before the first March 31 after they turned 18 years of age, or they are 60 years of age or older; or
兄弟姉妹については、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こと又は六十歳以上であること。
in the case of a husband, children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents, or siblings who do not fall under any of the requirements set forth in the preceding three items: they are disabled as specified in Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
前三号の要件に該当しない夫、子、父母、孫、祖父母又は兄弟姉妹については、厚生労働省令で定める障害の状態にあること。
When a child who was an unborn baby at the time of a worker's death is born, the child, with respect to the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraph, is deemed, from then on, as a child who was dependent on the worker's income at the time of the worker's death.
労働者の死亡の当時胎児であつた子が出生したときは、前項の規定の適用については、将来に向かつて、その子は、労働者の死亡の当時その収入によつて生計を維持していた子とみなす。
The order of priority of surviving family members who are to receive a compensation pension for surviving family is given to the spouse first, and then to children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents and siblings.
遺族補償年金を受けるべき遺族の順位は、配偶者、子、父母、孫、祖父母及び兄弟姉妹の順序とする。