①For the time being, with regard to the death in the case where a worker dies in the course of their duties, the government pays an advance lump-sum payment of compensation pension for surviving family, as insurance proceeds, to a surviving family member who has the right to receive a compensation pension for surviving family, based on their claim.

②The amount of an advance lump-sum payment of compensation pension for surviving family is the amount specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, up to the limit of the amount equivalent to 1,000 days of the basic daily payment amount (if the claim set forth in the preceding paragraph is made in or after August of the year after the next fiscal year of the fiscal year to which the date on which the grounds for calculation occurred belongs, the amount equivalent to the basic daily payment amount obtained when the provisions of Article 8-4 are applied by deeming that advance lump-sum payment of compensation pension for surviving family to be a lump-sum compensation payment for surviving family).

③If an advance lump-sum payment of compensation pension for surviving family is paid, the payment of the compensation pension for surviving family pertaining to the worker's death is suspended until the total amount of the amounts to be paid for each month reaches the amount of the advance lump-sum payment of compensation pension for surviving family in accordance with the calculation method specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

④With regard to the application of the provisions of Article 16-6 in the case where an advance lump-sum payment of compensation pension for surviving family has been paid, the term "amount of the compensation pension for surviving family" in paragraph (1), item (ii) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "amount of the compensation pension for surviving family and the amount of the advance lump-sum payment of compensation pension for surviving family (if the grounds for paying that advance lump-sum payment of compensation pension for surviving family occurred in or before July of the fiscal year to which the date on which the right was extinguished belongs (if the month to which the date on which the right was extinguished belongs is any of the months from April through July, the previous fiscal year), the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in accordance with the method of calculating the amount of the compensation pension for surviving family under the provisions of the following paragraph)".

⑤The right to receive the payment of an advance lump-sum payment of compensation pension for surviving family is extinguished by prescription when two years have elapsed from the time when it becomes exercisable.

⑥An advance lump-sum payment of compensation pension for surviving family is deemed to be a compensation pension for surviving family for the purpose of applying the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (3) and Article 20, paragraph (1) of the Premiums Collection Act.

⑦While the payment of the compensation pension for surviving family to be paid to a person who has received an advance lump-sum payment of compensation pension for surviving family is suspended pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3), the provisions of Article 36-2, paragraph (2) of the National Pension Act and Article 65, paragraph (2) of the former National Pension Act which is deemed to remain in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (11) of the Supplementary Provisions of Act No. 34 of 1985, and the provisos to Article 13-2, paragraph (1), item (i) and paragraph (2), item (i) of the Child Rearing Allowance Act do not apply to that compensation pension for surviving family.