The government and the implementing organizations collect insurance premiums for allocation to the expenses needed for employees' pension insurance services (including basic pension contributions).
The government and the implementing organizations are to collect insurance premiums for each month that forms a basis for calculating an insured period.
保険料は、被保険者期間の計算の基礎となる各月につき、徴収するものとする。
The amount of insurance premiums is the amount arrived at when the insurance premium rate is multiplied by the standard monthly remuneration and by the standard bonus amount.
保険料額は、標準報酬月額及び標準賞与額にそれぞれ保険料率を乗じて得た額とする。
For insurance premiums in the months set forth in the left-hand column of the following table, the insurance premium rate is the corresponding rate shown in the right-hand column of that table:
| For months from October 2004 to August 2005 | 139.34/1000 |
| For months from September 2005 to August 2006 | 142.88/1000 |
| For months from September 2006 to August 2007 | 146.42/1000 |
| For months from September 2007 to August 2008 | 149.96/1000 |
| For months from September 2008 to August 2009 | 153.50/1000 |
| For months from September 2009 to August 2010 | 157.04/1000 |
| For months from September 2010 to August 2011 | 160.58/1000 |
| For months from September 2011 to August 2012 | 164.12/1000 |
| For months from September 2012 to August 2013 | 167.66/1000 |
| For months from September 2013 to August 2014 | 171.20/1000 |
| For months from September 2014 to August 2015 | 174.74/1000 |
| For months from September 2015 to August 2016 | 178.28/1000 |
| For months from September 2016 to August 2017 | 181.82/1000 |
| For the month of September 2017 and months thereafter | 183.00/1000 |
保険料率は、次の表の上欄に掲げる月分の保険料について、それぞれ同表の下欄に定める率とする。
| 平成十六年十月から平成十七年八月までの月分 | 千分の百三十九・三四 |
| 平成十七年九月から平成十八年八月までの月分 | 千分の百四十二・八八 |
| 平成十八年九月から平成十九年八月までの月分 | 千分の百四十六・四二 |
| 平成十九年九月から平成二十年八月までの月分 | 千分の百四十九・九六 |
| 平成二十年九月から平成二十一年八月までの月分 | 千分の百五十三・五〇 |
| 平成二十一年九月から平成二十二年八月までの月分 | 千分の百五十七・〇四 |
| 平成二十二年九月から平成二十三年八月までの月分 | 千分の百六十・五八 |
| 平成二十三年九月から平成二十四年八月までの月分 | 千分の百六十四・一二 |
| 平成二十四年九月から平成二十五年八月までの月分 | 千分の百六十七・六六 |
| 平成二十五年九月から平成二十六年八月までの月分 | 千分の百七十一・二〇 |
| 平成二十六年九月から平成二十七年八月までの月分 | 千分の百七十四・七四 |
| 平成二十七年九月から平成二十八年八月までの月分 | 千分の百七十八・二八 |
| 平成二十八年九月から平成二十九年八月までの月分 | 千分の百八十一・八二 |
| 平成二十九年九月以後の月分 | 千分の百八十三・〇〇 |
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the government and the implementing organizations
「政府等」
The government and the implementing organizations (実施機関) other than the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare — the bodies that provide the insurance benefits of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act: employees' old-age pensions, employees' disability pensions and disability allowances, and employees' pensions for surviving family.
Short name set inArticle 32, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 34, paragraph (1); Article 40; Article 79, paragraphs (1) and (2); Article 81, paragraph (1); Article 84-5, paragraph (2); Article 84-6, paragraph (2); and Supplementary Provisions, Article 23-3
insurance premium rate
「保険料率」
The insurance premium rate under this Act as it stood on 1 September of the year three years before the year in which the fiscal year in question begins; half of it is taken from 0.910 in working out item (iii) of Article 43-2, paragraph (1), one of the factors of the rate of fluctuation in nominal net wages (名目手取り賃金変動率).
Short name set inArticle 43-2, paragraph (1), item (iii), (a)
basic pension contributions
「基礎年金拠出金」
The basic pension contributions that, under Article 94-2, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the National Pension Act, the government as operator of employees' pension insurance bears, and the mutual aid associations and other bodies that are implementing organizations (実施機関) pay, each fiscal year toward the cost of basic pension (基礎年金) benefits.
Short name set inArticle 79, paragraph (2)