Payment of pension insurance benefits may be suspended in whole or in part in a case that falls under one of the following items:
年金たる保険給付は、次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、その額の全部又は一部につき、その支給を停止することができる。
if a beneficiary has failed to comply with an order under the provisions of Article 96, paragraph (1) or has refused to answer the questions of the relevant official under the provisions of that paragraph, without reasonable grounds;
if a child who has the right to receive pension insurance benefits due to having a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any disability grade, or to whose pension an amount is added pursuant to the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (1), due to the child having a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any disability grade, fails to comply with an order under the provisions of Article 97, paragraph (1) or refuses diagnosis under the provisions of that paragraph, without reasonable grounds; or
if the person provided for in the preceding item has hindered the recovery of their disability, intentionally, through gross negligence, or due to a failure to comply with medical instructions that is without reasonable grounds.
前号に規定する者が、故意若しくは重大な過失により、又は正当な理由がなくて療養に関する指示に従わないことにより、その障害の回復を妨げたとき。
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(Additional Amounts of Pension)
Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43, if, at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits…
老齢厚生年金（その年金額の計算の基礎となる被保険者期間の月数が二百四十以上であるものに限る。）の額は、受給権者がその権利を取得した当時（その権利を取得した当時、当該老齢厚生年金の額の計算の基礎となる被保険者期間の月数が二百四十未満であつたときは、第四十三条第二項又は第三項の規定により当該月数が二百四十以上となるに至つ…
Open this provisionif a child who has the right to receive pension insurance benefits due to having a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any disability grade…
障害等級に該当する程度の障害の状態にあることにより、年金たる保険給付の受給権を有し、又は第四十四条第一項の規定によりその者について加算が行われている子が、正当な理由がなくて、第九十七条第一項の規定による命令に従わず、又は同項の規定による診断を拒んだとき。
Open this provision(Investigation of the Beneficiary)
On finding it to be necessary to do so, an implementing organization may order a beneficiary of pension insurance benefits to submit documents or other items in connection with the particulars…
実施機関は、必要があると認めるときは、年金たる保険給付の受給権者に対して、その者の身分関係、障害の状態その他受給権の消滅、年金額の改定若しくは支給の停止に係る事項に関する書類その他の物件の提出を命じ、又は当該職員をしてこれらの事項に関し受給権者に質問させることができる。
Open this provision(Diagnosis)
On finding that it is necessary to do so, an implementing organization may order that a child who has the right to receive pension insurance benefits due to having a disability of a degree of…
実施機関は、必要があると認めるときは、障害等級に該当する程度の障害の状態にあることにより、年金たる保険給付の受給権を有し、又は第四十四条第一項の規定によりその者について加算が行われている子に対して、その指定する医師の診断を受けるべきことを命じ、又は当該職員をしてこれらの者の障害の状態を診断させることができる。
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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)
disability grades
「障害等級」
The grades of disability in Article 47, paragraph (2): grade 1, grade 2 and grade 3, from the most severe, with the state of disability for each set by Cabinet Order (政令).
Short name set inArticle 47-2, paragraph (1)