If an employees' pension for surviving family is paid to a person other than the spouse and there is any increase or decrease in the number of beneficiaries, the amount of the employees' pension for surviving family is revised from the month following the month in which the number increased or decreased.
If, as of the day on which the beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family of an amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), item (i) of the preceding Article (limited to one for the spouse) acquired the right to receive benefits from an employees' old-age pension, the amount arrived at when the amounts specified in item (ii), (a) and (b) of that paragraph are added together exceeds the amount prescribed in item (i) of that paragraph, amount of pension is revised to the relevant sum total from the month following the month that includes the day on which the person acquired the right to receive benefits from the employees' old-age pension.
If the amount of the employees' old-age pension that forms the basis for calculating the amount of an employees' pension for surviving family that is calculated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), item (ii) of the preceding Article is revised pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3), the amount of the employees' pension for surviving family is revised from the month of the revision of the employees' old-age pension; provided, however, that this does not apply if the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), item (i) of the preceding Article is equal to or more than the total amount under item (ii), (a) and (b) of that paragraph which is computed based on the revised amount of the relevant employees' old-age pension.
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(Amount of Pension)
If a beneficiary is an insured on September 1 of each year (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "base date")…
受給権者が毎年九月一日（以下この項において「基準日」という。）において被保険者である場合（基準日に被保険者の資格を取得した場合を除く。）の老齢厚生年金の額は、基準日の属する月前の被保険者であつた期間をその計算の基礎とするものとし、基準日の属する月の翌月から、年金の額を改定する。
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If a beneficiary who is an insured forfeits status as an insured and one month passes after the day on which the beneficiary forfeits status as an insured without the beneficiary's becoming an…
被保険者である受給権者がその被保険者の資格を喪失し、かつ、被保険者となることなくして被保険者の資格を喪失した日から起算して一月を経過したときは、その被保険者の資格を喪失した月前における被保険者であつた期間を老齢厚生年金の額の計算の基礎とするものとし…
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if a surviving family member provided for in Article 59, paragraph (1) (other than one who is set forth in the following item) has acquired the right to receive benefits from an employees' pension…
第五十九条第一項に規定する遺族（次号に掲げる遺族を除く。）が遺族厚生年金の受給権を取得したとき 死亡した被保険者又は被保険者であつた者の被保険者期間を基礎として第四十三条第一項の規定の例により計算した額の四分の三に相当する額。
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if, among surviving family members provided for in Article 59, paragraph (1), the spouse who has the right to receive any of the pension benefits from the employees' old-age pension has acquired the…
第五十九条第一項に規定する遺族のうち、老齢厚生年金の受給権を有する配偶者が遺族厚生年金の受給権を取得したとき 前号に定める額又は次のイ及びロに掲げる額を合算した額のうちいずれか多い額
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「受給権者」
A person who holds the right to receive an insurance benefit (保険給付) under this Act; the implementing organization (実施機関) confirms (裁定) that right on the person's claim.
Short name set inArticle 33, paragraph (1)
spouse
「配偶者」
From Article 59 on, the spouse of an insured or former insured, as a survivor (遺族) who may receive the employees' pension for surviving family (遺族厚生年金); under Article 3, paragraph (2), a spouse includes a partner in a de facto marriage that has not been registered.
Short name set inArticle 59, paragraph (1)