If the beneficiary of insurance benefits has died and there are insurance benefits that should have been paid to the deceased but that had not yet been paid thereto, the deceased's spouse, child or children, father and mother, grandchild or grandchildren, grandfather and grandmother, brothers and sisters, or relative within the third degree of kinship other than the foregoing persons, who was living off the same financial resources as the beneficiary at the time of the beneficiary's death, may request payment of unpaid insurance benefits in their own name.
保険給付の受給権者が死亡した場合において、その死亡した者に支給すべき保険給付でまだその者に支給しなかつたものがあるときは、その者の配偶者、子、父母、孫、祖父母、兄弟姉妹又はこれらの者以外の三親等内の親族であつて、その者の死亡の当時その者と生計を同じくしていたものは、自己の名で、その未支給の保険給付の支給を請求することができる。
In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the person who has died was a wife who was the beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family, any child of the insured or former insured who was living off the same financial resources as the deceased at the time of her death and for whom a suspension on the payment of an employees' pension for surviving family has been lifted by her death is deemed to be a child as prescribed in that paragraph.
In a case as referred to in paragraph (1), if the deceased beneficiary had not claimed the insurance benefits prior to death, the person prescribed in that paragraph may claim insurance benefits in their own name.
Cabinet Order provides for the order in which persons are to receive unpaid insurance benefits.
未支給の保険給付を受けるべき者の順位は、政令で定める。
If there are two or more persons who are in the same place in the order in which persons are to receive unpaid insurance benefits, any claim made by one of them is deemed to have been made for all of them with regard to the entire amount, and any payment made to one of them is deemed to have been made to all of them.
未支給の保険給付を受けるべき同順位者が二人以上あるときは、その一人のした請求は、全員のためその全額につきしたものとみなし、その一人に対してした支給は、全員に対してしたものとみなす。