In applying the provisions of Article 38 to a person who has spent time as an insured under two or more insured categories corresponding to a category I EPI insured period, category II EPI insured period, category III EPI insured period, or category IV EPI insured period (hereinafter each of these is referred to as a "category of EPI insured period") (hereinafter such a person is referred to as a "person who has spent time as an insured in two or more categories"); and who is eligible to receive pension insurance benefits based on the time that the person spent as an insured under a single insured category (referred to as the person's "time in one category" hereinafter) and is also eligible to receive pension insurance benefits due to the same grounds for payment based on the time that the person spent as an insured under another insured category that differs from the single insured category in question (hereinafter referred to as the person's "time in another category"); the phrase "other than an employees' pension for surviving family" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be the phrase "other than an employees' old-age pension paid based on the same grounds for payment as the employees' old-age pension in question or an employees' pension for surviving family" and the phrase " other than an employees' old-age pension" in that paragraph is deemed to be the phrase " other than an employees' old-age pension or an employees' pension for surviving family paid based on the same grounds for payment as the employees' pension for surviving family in question".