Article 78-34 — Employees' Pension Insurance Act — japanlaw

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Article 78-34Special Provisions on Applications to Suspend Payment of Employees' Pensions for Surviving Family

第七十八条の三十四（遺族厚生年金の支給停止に係る申請の特例）

If a surviving family member of a person who has spent time as an insured in two or more categories is eligible to receive an employees' pension for surviving family based on the time that the relevant person spent as an insured under two or more insured categories, the surviving family member must file an application under the provisions of Article 67, or Article 68, paragraph (1) or (2) for the employees' pension for surviving family based on the person's time in one category at the same time as filing any application for the employees' pension for surviving family based on the person's time in another category that is based on the same grounds for payment as the grounds for payment of the employees' pension for surviving family based on the person's time in that one category.

二以上の種別の被保険者であつた期間を有する者の遺族について、二以上の被保険者の種別に係る被保険者であつた期間に基づく遺族厚生年金を受けることができる場合には、一の期間に基づく遺族厚生年金についての第六十七条又は第六十八条第一項若しくは第二項の規定による申請は、当該一の期間に基づく遺族厚生年金と同一の支給事由に基づく他の期間に基づく遺族厚生年金についての当該申請と同時に行わなければならない。

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insured category
被保険者の種別（ひほけんしゃのしゅべつ）
Which of the four categories of insured under Employees' Pension Insurance (厚生年金保険) a person falls in: category I (第一号厚生年金被保険者), category II (第二号厚生年金被保険者), category III (第三号厚生年金被保険者) or category IV (第四号厚生年金被保険者) (Article 15).
第一号厚生年金被保険者、第二号厚生年金被保険者、第三号厚生年金被保険者又は第四号厚生年金被保険者のいずれであるかの区別
Article 15, paragraph (1)See it in the glossary
time in one category
一の期間（いちのきかん）
For a person who has been insured in two or more of the insured categories (被保険者の種別), the time they were insured in one of those categories, as Article 78-22 uses the phrase.
Article 78-22, paragraph (1)See it in the glossary
person who has spent time as an insured in two or more categories
二以上の種別の被保険者であつた期間を有する者（にいじょうのしゅべつのひほけんしゃであったきかんをゆうするもの）
A person who has been insured, at different times, in two or more of the four insured categories — the category I to category IV EPI insured periods (第一号厚生年金被保険者期間 to 第四号厚生年金被保険者期間) — as Article 78-22 and the provisions after it use the phrase.
Article 78-22, paragraph (1)See it in the glossary
time in another category
他の期間（たのきかん）
For a person who has been insured in two or more of the insured categories (被保険者の種別), the time they were insured in a category other than the one behind a pension insurance benefit (their time in one category, 一の期間), as Article 78-22 uses the phrase.
Article 78-22, paragraph (1)See it in the glossary

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as amended by Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc., and Other Matters, to Strengthen the Functions of the Pension System in Light of Socioeconomic Changes (Act No. 74 of 2025)社会経済の変化を踏まえた年金制度の機能強化のための国民年金法等の一部を改正する等の法律

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