The insurance benefits under this Act are as follows; the government and the implementing organizations (excluding the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare; referred to as "the government and the implementing organizations" in Article 34, paragraph (1), Article 40, Article 79, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2), Article 81, paragraph (1), Article 84-5, paragraph (2) and Article 84-6, paragraph (2), and in Article 23-3 of the Supplementary Provisions) provide them:

The implementing organization issues a ruling confirming a person's right to receive insurance benefits at the request of the person who has the right to receive that insurance benefit (hereinafter referred to as the "beneficiary").

①If, in compiling the current budget status and projections report pursuant to the provisions of Article 2-4, paragraph (1), it is projected not to be possible, over the course of the period subject to budget balancing, to maintain balance in the reserve funds being retained by the government or the implementing organizations in the budget for employees' pension insurance services as the reserve funds that are necessary for ensuring that no obstacles will arise in the payment of insurance benefits at the end of the period subject to budget balancing (meaning the reserve funds in the employees' pension section of the pension special account and the implementing organization reserves provided for in Article 79-2 ), the government is to adjust the amount of insurance benefits, and, by Cabinet Order, is to specify the fiscal year that will begin the period during which the amount of insurance benefits is subject to that adjustment (hereinafter referred to as the "term under adjustment").

②If, in the current budget status and projections report, it is found to be no longer necessary to implement the adjustment under the preceding paragraph, the government, by Cabinet Order, is to specify the fiscal year that will end the term under adjustment.

③If the government is compiling the current budget status and projections report during a term under adjustment, it must also compile a projection on the fiscal year in which the term under adjustment will end, and must publicly announce these together.

①When a ruling confirming a person's right to receive insurance benefits is issued or if the amount of insurance benefits is revised, amounts of insurance benefits are rounded to the nearest yen, with amounts under 50 sen being rounded down and amounts equal to or greater than 50 sen but less than one yen being rounded up.

②Beyond as provided for in the preceding paragraph, Cabinet Order prescribes numerical rounding for amounts of less than one yen that arise when amounts of insurance benefits are calculated.

①The payment of a pension is to begin in the month following the month in which the reason that a pension is to be paid has occurred, and is to end in the month in which the right to payment ceases to exist.

②If any reason for which payment is to be suspended has occurred, a pension is not paid during the period from the month following the month in which that reason has occurred until the month in which that reason ceases to exist.

③Pensions are paid six times every year, in February, April, June, August, October, and December, in the amount that is due up to the previous month on each of these occasions; provided, however, pension that should have been paid in the previous payment month as well as pension for a term during which the right to payment has ceased to exist or payment has been suspended is to be paid even if the month in question is not a payment month.

①Payment amounts under the provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article are to be rounded down to the nearest yen.

②The total of all amounts discarded in the numerical rounding during the period from March of each year to February of the next year pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (rounded down to the nearest yen) is to be added to the amount of the pension paid in February.

①If the beneficiary of insurance benefits has died and there are insurance benefits that should have been paid to the deceased but that had not yet been paid thereto, the deceased's spouse, child or children, father and mother, grandchild or grandchildren, grandfather and grandmother, brothers and sisters, or relative within the third degree of kinship other than the foregoing persons, who was living off the same financial resources as the beneficiary at the time of the beneficiary's death, may request payment of unpaid insurance benefits in their own name.

②In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the person who has died was a wife who was the beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family, any child of the insured or former insured who was living off the same financial resources as the deceased at the time of her death and for whom a suspension on the payment of an employees' pension for surviving family has been lifted by her death is deemed to be a child as prescribed in that paragraph.

③In a case as referred to in paragraph (1), if the deceased beneficiary had not claimed the insurance benefits prior to death, the person prescribed in that paragraph may claim insurance benefits in their own name.

④Cabinet Order provides for the order in which persons are to receive unpaid insurance benefits.

⑤If there are two or more persons who are in the same place in the order in which persons are to receive unpaid insurance benefits, any claim made by one of them is deemed to have been made for all of them with regard to the entire amount, and any payment made to one of them is deemed to have been made to all of them.

①Payment of pension benefits from an employees' disability pension is suspended during a period in which a beneficiary is eligible to receive other pension insurance benefits, or pension benefits under the National Pension Act (other than a basic disability pension paid based on the same grounds for payment as the employees' disability pension). Similarly, payment of pension benefits from an employees' old-age pension is suspended during the period in which a beneficiary is eligible to receive other pension insurance benefits (other than an employees' pension for surviving family) or pension benefits under the National Pension Act (other than an old-age basic pension, additional pension, or basic disability pension), and the payment of pension benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family is suspended during the period in which a beneficiary is eligible to receive other pension insurance benefits (other than an employees' old-age pension) or pension benefits under that Act (other than an old-age basic pension and additional pension, a basic disability pension, or a basic pension for surviving family to be paid based on the same grounds for payment as the employees' pension for surviving family in question).

②Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, a beneficiary of pension insurance benefits whose payment is to be suspended pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph may apply for the suspension of payment to be lifted; provided, however, that this does not apply with regard to that person's other pension insurance benefits or pension benefits under the National Pension Act as referred to in the preceding paragraph, if these have been lifted in accordance with the provisions of the main clause of this or the following paragraph or provisions of other laws and regulations prescribed by Cabinet Order as being equivalent thereto.

③If pension insurance benefits whose payment is to be suspended pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) will be paid for the month that includes the day on which the reason for the suspension of payment has occurred, an application as referred to in the preceding paragraph concerning those pension insurance benefits is deemed to have been filed at the time the reason occurred.

④An application as referred to in paragraph (2) (or an application as referred to in paragraph (2), if it is deemed, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, that such an application has been filed) may be prospectively withdrawn at any time.

①At the request of the beneficiary, payment is suspended in full for pension insurance benefits (other than pension insurance benefits whose payment is suspended in full pursuant to other provisions of this Act or the provisions of other laws and regulations); provided, however, that if there is a partial suspension on payment of those benefits pursuant to other provisions of this Act or the provisions of other laws and regulations, payment of the amount not suspended thereby is suspended.

②If a suspension on payment under other provisions of this Act or the provisions of other laws and regulations has been lifted for pension insurance benefits that are subject to a partial suspension on payment as referred to in the proviso to the preceding paragraph, the payment of pension insurance benefits as referred to in the main clause of the preceding paragraph is suspended in full.

③The request under paragraph (1) may be prospectively withdrawn at any time.

④Pension benefits whose payment is suspended pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) are deemed not to be subject to a suspension of payment as it concerns the application of the provisions of laws and regulations as provided for by Cabinet Order.

⑤Cabinet Order provides for the means of suspending payment pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) and for other necessary particulars in connection with the application of the provisions of the preceding paragraphs.

①If the right of the beneficiary of a first pension to receive benefits under the first pension is to cease to exist because the beneficiary has acquired a right to receive benefits under a second pension, but the first pension has been paid for any month following that in which the right to receive benefits under the first pension ceased to exist, the first pension that has been paid for that month is deemed to be a partial payment of the second pension; if the payment of benefits under a first pension is to be suspended and a second pension is to be paid to the same person, but a payment of monies from the first pension has been made for any month following that in which the right to receive benefits under the first pension ceased to exist or the reason to suspend payment of the first pension has occurred, the first pension that has been paid for that month is deemed to be a partial payment of the second pension.

②If, in spite of the occurrence of a reason for suspending the payment of a pension, a pension has been paid for any period for which payment was to be suspended, the pension paid in that manner may be deemed to be partial payment of the pension to be paid thereafter. If, in spite of the occurrence of a reason to revise a pension by reducing its amount, a pension has been paid in an unreduced amount for any month following that in which the reason to reduce its amount occurred, the foregoing also applies to the part of the payment constituting the amount by which the pension was to have been reduced.

③If the payment of pension benefits under the National Pension Act is to be suspended and pension insurance benefits (limited to the benefits paid by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) are to be paid to the same person, but pension benefits under that Act have been paid for any month following that in which the reason for paying pension insurance benefits has occurred, the pension benefits under that Act that have been paid may be deemed to be a partial payment of pension insurance benefits.

If, in spite of the right to receive benefits having ceased to exist due to the death of the beneficiary of pension insurance benefits, the pension insurance benefits were overpaid due to payment for any month following the month that includes the date of the beneficiary's death, but there are pension insurance benefits that are to be paid to the person who is to perform obligations under the claim for the return of monies that has resulted from the overpayment (hereinafter referred to as a "claim for the return of monies"), the amount of payment under the pension insurance benefits may be appropriated as the amount of the claim for the return of monies that resulted from the overpayment, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

①If an accident has been caused by the actions of a third party and the government or an implementing organization has paid insurance benefits, it acquires the beneficiary's right to claim compensation for loss or damage against the third party, up to the value of those benefits.

②In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, if a beneficiary has been compensated for loss or damage by the third party for the same reason, the government or the implementing organization may withhold insurance benefits, up to the value of that compensation.

If a person has received insurance benefits by deception or other wrongful means, the implementing organization may collect from that person an amount equal to all or part of the benefits that the person received.

①The right to receive insurance benefits may not be assigned, provided as collateral, or attached; provided, however, that this does not apply if the right to receive the employees' old-age pension is attached in collection proceedings for delinquent national tax (including a procedure to be enforced pursuant to the provisions on collection proceedings for delinquent national tax).

②Taxes and other public charges may not be imposed upon money paid as insurance benefits; provided, however, that this does not apply to employees' old-age pensions.

An employees' old-age pension is paid to a person with an insured period if that person has come to fall under both of the following items:

①The amount of employees' old-age pension is the amount arrived at when the number of months in the insured period is multiplied by an amount equal to 5.481/1000 of the average standardized amount of remuneration for the whole period during which the person was an insured (meaning the number arrived at when the standardized monthly amounts of remuneration and the standardized amounts of bonuses in each month that constitute a basis for calculation of the insured period are multiplied by the rates provided in the relevant items of the appended table for the category of beneficiary set forth in that item (hereinafter referred to as the "revaluation rate"), and the total is divided by the number of months in the insured period; the same applies hereinafter except for cases in Article 17-6, paragraph (1) and Article 29, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions).

②If a beneficiary is an insured on September 1 of each year (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "base date") (excluding a case where the beneficiary acquires status as an insured on the base date), the period during which the beneficiary was an insured before the month that includes the base date is to be the basis for the calculation of the amount of the employees' old-age pension, and the amount of pension is revised from the month following the month that includes the base date; provided, however, that if the base date falls in the period from the day on which the beneficiary forfeited status as an insured until the day on which the beneficiary again acquires status as an insured, and the period from the day on which the beneficiary forfeited status as an insured until the day on which the beneficiary again acquires status as an insured is one month or less, the period during which the beneficiary was an insured before the month that includes the base date is to be the basis for the calculation of the amount of the employees' old-age pension, and the amount of pension is revised from the month following the month that includes the base date.

③If 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 insured, the period during which the beneficiary was insured before the month in which the beneficiary forfeited status as an insured is to be the basis for the calculation of employees' old-age pension, and the amount of pension is revised as of the month that includes the day that is calculated as falling one month after the day on which the beneficiary forfeited that status (or the day falling under one of the items from item (ii) through item (iv) of Article 14, if applicable).

①The revaluation rate is revised every year based on the rate arrived at when the rate specified in item (i) (hereinafter referred to as the "price fluctuation rate") is multiplied by the rates prescribed in item (ii) and (iii) (hereinafter the rate so arrived at is referred to as the "rate of fluctuation in nominal net wages"), and applied to insurance benefits in and after April of the relevant fiscal year:

②Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the rates provided for in the following items are the basis for revision of the revaluation rate set forth in those items:

③The revaluation rate for the standardized monthly amount of remuneration for months that fall in the relevant fiscal year is established based on the rate arrived at when the rate of fluctuation in the proportion of disposable income is multiplied by the revaluation rate for the standardized monthly amount of remuneration for months that fall in the fiscal year before the relevant fiscal year.

④Cabinet Order provides for measures to revise and establish the revaluation rate under the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs.

①Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, the price fluctuation rate (or, if the price fluctuation rate exceeds the rate of fluctuation in nominal net wages, the rate of fluctuation in nominal net wages) is the basis for the revision of the revaluation rate that applies in and after the fiscal year (referred to in Article 43-5 as the "base fiscal year") that includes the April 1 of the calendar year that falls three years after the calendar year which includes the first day of the fiscal year in which the day on which the beneficiary reaches 65 years of age falls (hereinafter referred to as the "post-base fiscal year revaluation rate").

②Notwithstanding the provisions of preceding paragraph, the provisions of the items under paragraph (2) of the preceding Article apply to the revision of the post-base fiscal year revaluation rate for the standardized remuneration in the previous fiscal year and the standardized remuneration two or three fiscal years prior.

③Cabinet Order provides for measures to revise the post-base fiscal year revaluation rate under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs.

①Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding two Articles, the rate arrived at when the rate of fluctuation in nominal net wages is multiplied by the rate arrived at when the adjustment rate (meaning the rate arrived at when the rate set forth in item (i) is multiplied by the rate set forth in item (ii) (or 1, if the rate so arrived at exceeds 1); the same applies hereinafter in this Article and the following Article) is multiplied by the special adjustment rate for the year before the fiscal year in question (or the number 1, if the final product is lower than 1; hereinafter in this Article, this final product is referred to as the "calculation rate") is the basis for the revision of the revaluation rate in a term under adjustment:

②Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the rates provided for in the following items are the basis for the revision of the revaluation rates set forth in those items during a term under adjustment:

③Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43-2, paragraph (3), the revaluation rate for the standardized remunerations for months that fall in the relevant fiscal year during a term under adjustment is established based on the rate arrived at when the revaluation rate for the standardized remunerations for months that fell in the fiscal year that preceded the relevant fiscal year is multiplied by the rate set forth in item (i) and the rate set forth in item (ii) (or, if the calculation rate is 1, the rate arrived at when the rate that has been arrived at as the product of the foregoing multiplication is multiplied by the rate arrived at when the number 1 is divided by the rate that is arrived at when the rate set forth in item (iii) is multiplied by the rate set forth in item (ii)):

④Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs, the revision or establishment of the revaluation rate in a case in which the rate of fluctuation in nominal net wages is less than 1 during a term under adjustment is subject to the provisions of Article 43-2, paragraphs (1) through (3).

⑤The special adjustment rate referred to in paragraph (1) through paragraph (3) means the rate established pursuant to the provisions of item (i) and revised pursuant to the provisions of item (ii).

⑥Cabinet Order provides for measures to revise and establish the revaluation rate under the provisions of each of the preceding paragraphs.

①Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, the revision of the post-base fiscal year revaluation rate during a term under adjustment has as its basis the rate arrived at when the rate set forth in item (i) is multiplied by the rate set forth in item (ii) (or, if the relevant rate is lower than 1, 1; hereinafter in this Article referred to as "post-base fiscal year calculation rate"):

②Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the rate provided for in each of the following items is the basis for the revision of the post-base fiscal year revaluation rate set forth in each of those items in a term under adjustment:

③Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article, the post-base fiscal year revaluation rate associated with the standardized monthly amount of remuneration for months that fall in the relevant fiscal year during a term under adjustment is established based on the rate arrived at when the post-base fiscal year revaluation rate associated with the standardized monthly amount of remuneration for months that fell in the fiscal year that preceded the relevant fiscal year (or, if the relevant fiscal year is the base fiscal year, the rate arrived at when the rate that has been arrived at as the product of the foregoing multiplication is multiplied by the rate arrived at when the number 1 is divided by the rate that is arrived at when the rate set forth in item (iii) is multiplied by the rate set forth in item (ii)) is multiplied by the rate set forth in item (i) and the rate set forth in item (ii):

④Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs, the revision or establishment of the post-base fiscal year revaluation rate in a case in which the price fluctuation rate or the rate of fluctuation in nominal net wages is less than 1 during the term under adjustment is subject to the provisions of Article 43-2, paragraph (3) and Article 43-3, paragraphs (1) and (2).

⑤The post-base fiscal year special adjustment rate referred to in paragraph (1) through paragraph (3) means the rate established pursuant to the provisions of item (i) and revised pursuant to the provisions of item (ii).

⑥Cabinet Order provides for measures to revise or establish the post-base fiscal year revaluation rate under the provisions of each of the preceding paragraphs.

①Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43, if, at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits (or at the time that the insured period had reached 240 months pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3), if the insured period constituting the basis for the calculation of the amount of the employees' old-age pension was less than 240 months at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive those benefits; the same applies in paragraph (3)), the beneficiary had a spouse under the age of 65 or a child (limited to children of ages from birth until the first March 31 on or after the day on which the child reaches the age of 18, and to children under the age of 20 with disabilities classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades provided in Article 47, paragraph (2) (hereinafter referred to simply as "disability grades" in this Article)) who was receiving financial support from the beneficiary, the amount of employees' old-age pension (limited to one calculated based on an insured period of 240 months or more) is calculated by adding an additional amount of pension to the amount provided for in that Article; provided, however, that if the beneficiary has a child to whose pension an amount is added pursuant to the provisions of Article 33-2, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act (unless the payment is suspended for the entire portion that is equal to the additional amount to be paid for the child), the payment of the portion equal to the additional amount to be paid for the child is suspended during that period.

②The additional amount of pension under the preceding paragraph for a spouse as provided in that paragraph is the amount arrived at when 224,700 yen is multiplied by the revision rate specified in Article 27 of the National Pension Act, revised as a rate to which the provisions of Article 27-3 and 27-5 of that Act do not apply (hereinafter referred to as the "revision rate" in this Chapter) (those amounts are to be rounded to the nearest hundred, with amounts less than 50 yen being rounded down, and amounts between 50 yen and 99 yen being rounded up); and the additional amount of pension under the preceding paragraph for children as specified in that paragraph is the amount arrived at when 74,900 yen per child is multiplied by the revision rate (but, for up to two of those children, the additional amount of pension under the preceding paragraph is the amount arrived at when 224,700 yen is multiplied by the revision rate for each of them, rounded to the nearest hundred, with amounts less than 50 yen being rounded down and amounts between 50 yen and 99 yen being rounded up).

③To apply the provisions of paragraph (1), once a child is born who was in utero at the time the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits, the child is deemed to have been receiving financial support from the beneficiary at the time the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits, and the amount of pension is revised from the month following the month of that child's birth.

④Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), for an employees' old-age pension that has had an amount added thereto pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, if the spouse or a child comes to fall under one of the following items, the additional amount of pension associated with that person that is referred to in that paragraph is not added, and the amount of pension is revised from the month following the month in which the person comes to fall under one of the following items:

⑤Cabinet Order provides for the necessary particulars in connection with certifying that a person was receiving financial support from the beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension in order to apply the provisions of paragraph (1), and provides for the necessary particulars in connection with certifying that a person has stopped receiving financial support from the beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension in order to apply the provisions of item (ii) of the preceding paragraph.

①A person with the right to receive benefits from an employees' old-age pension who has not claimed the employees' old-age pension before the day that marks the passage of one year's time since the day on which the person acquired the right to receive benefits under it (hereinafter referred to as the "day that marks one year's time" since acquisition of the right to receive benefits in this Article) may file a request with the implementing organization for deferred payment of that employees' old-age pension; provided, however, that this does not apply if, at the time that the person acquired the right to receive benefits from the relevant employees' old-age pension, the beneficiary was the beneficiary of other pension benefits (meaning other pension insurance benefits or pension benefits under the National Pension Act (other than an old-age basic pension, additional pension, or basic disability pension); the same applies hereinafter in this Article), or if, during the period up until the day that marks one year's time since the day on which the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits under the relevant employees' old-age pension, the person has become the beneficiary of other pension insurance benefits.

②If a person as set forth in one of the following items makes the request referred to in the preceding paragraph (excluding a request in a case where the request referred to in the preceding paragraph is deemed to have been made pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (5); the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) after the day that marks one year's time since the acquisition of the right to receive benefits, the request referred to in the preceding paragraph is deemed to have been made on the day specified in that item:

③Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 36, paragraph (1), the payment of an employees' old-age pension to a person who has filed a request as referred to in paragraph (1) (including a request in a case where the request referred to in paragraph (1) is deemed to have been made pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (5); the same applies in the following paragraph) is to commence in the month following the month in which the request is filed.

④Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1) and Article 44, the amount of the employees' old-age pension to be paid to a person who has filed a request as referred to in paragraph (1) is the amount arrived at when the amount calculated in accordance with these provisions is added to the amount prescribed by Cabinet Order in consideration of the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1) based on the insured period up to the month before the month that includes the day on which the person acquires the right to receive benefits from the employees' old-age pension and the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 46, paragraph (1) for the payment it has been decided to suspend.

⑤If a person who is able to file a request for deferred payment of an employees' old-age pension pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) claims that employees' old-age pension after the day that marks five years' time since the day on which the person acquired the right to receive benefits under it, and does not file a request as referred to in that paragraph at the time of that claim, the request referred to in that paragraph is deemed to have been made on the day five years before the day on which the claim was made; provided, however, that this does not apply if the person falls under one of the following items:

The right to benefits from an employees' old-age pension ceases to exist when the beneficiary dies.

①In a month that includes a day on which the beneficiary of the employees' old-age pension is an insured (limited to a person who has had the status of an insured continuously from a day that fell in the month before the previous month) (excluding a day specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare), a day on which the beneficiary is a member of the Diet or a member of the assembly of a local government (limited to a person who has been the member of the Diet or the assembly of a local government continuously from a day that fell in the month before the previous month), or a day on which the beneficiary is an employed person age 70 or over (but only one meeting the requirements specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare that are referred to in Article 27 continuously from a day that falls in the month before the previous month at an applicable place of business), if the amount arrived at when first the total of the standardized amounts of bonuses for the one-year period prior to the relevant month, divided by 12, is added to the person's standardized monthly amount of remuneration (or, in the case of a member of the Diet or a member of the assembly of a local government, the amount arrived at when first the total of the amounts of bonuses for the one-year period prior to that month and amounts prescribed by Cabinet Order as being equivalent to the standardized amounts of bonuses for the one-year period prior to that month is divided by 12, and then the quotient is added to the amount prescribed by Cabinet Order as being equivalent to the person's standardized monthly amount of remuneration; or, in the case of an employed person age 70 or over (other than one who is also a member of the Diet or a member of the assembly of a local government; the same applies in the following paragraph), the amount arrived at when first the sum total of the standardized amounts of bonuses for the one-year period prior to that month and amounts equivalent to standardized amounts of bonuses for the one-year period prior to that month is divided by 12, and then the quotient is added to the amount equivalent to the standardized monthly amount of remuneration; the sum thus arrived at above is hereinafter referred to as the "amount equivalent to total monthly remuneration"), and this sum is added to the amount arrived at when the amount of employees' old-age pension (excluding the amount of additional pension provided for in Article 44, paragraph (1) and additional amounts provided for in Article 44-3, paragraph (4): the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) is divided by 12 (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as the "base monthly amount") exceeds the amount of the adjustment for the suspension of payment, payment is suspended on the portion of that month's employees' old-age pension that is equal to the amount arrived at when the amount equivalent to total monthly remuneration is added to the base monthly amount, the amount of the adjustment for the suspension of payment is subtracted from the sum, and the amount equivalent to one-half of the difference is multiplied by 12 (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as the "standard amount for a payment suspension"); provided, however, that if the standard amount for a payment suspension is equal to or greater than the amount of the employees' old-age pension, the payment of employees' old-age pension (excluding the additional amount provided for in paragraph (4) of that Article) is suspended in its entirety.

②The provisions of Articles 20 through 25 apply mutatis mutandis when the amount equal to the standardized monthly amount of remuneration and the standardized amount of bonuses of an employed person age 70 or over as referred to in the preceding paragraph are calculated. Cabinet Order provides for the necessary technical replacement of terms in connection with those provisions in such a case.

③The amount of the adjustment for the suspension of payment specified in paragraph (1) is 620,000 yen; provided, however, that if any of the amounts arrived at when the rate set forth in Article 43-2, paragraph (1), item (ii) is multiplied by the price fluctuation rate in each of the fiscal years in and after fiscal 2025, and each of those rates is multiplied by 620,000 yen (those amounts are rounded to the closest 10,000 yen, with amounts under 5,000 yen being rounded down and amounts between 5,000 yen and 9,999 yen being rounded up; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) exceeds or falls below 620,000 yen (or, if measures to revise the amount of the adjustment for the suspension of payment under the provisions of this paragraph are taken, the amount revised by the immediately preceding measures in question), the amount of the adjustment for the suspension of payment in and after April of the relevant fiscal year is revised to the amount arrived at through that multiplication.

④Cabinet Order provides for measures to revise the amount of the adjustment for the suspension of payment under the provisions of the proviso to the preceding paragraph.

⑤The provisions of Article 36, paragraph (2) do not apply if the payment of an employees' old-age pension is suspended, in whole or in part, pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1).

⑥The part of the payment of benefits under an employees' old-age pension to which an amount has been added pursuant to the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (1), that is equivalent to the amount added pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph for the spouse of a person to whose pension an amount is added pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph is suspended during the time that the spouse is eligible to receive payment of any benefits under an employees' old-age pension (limited to one calculated based on an insured period of 240 months or more), employees' disability pension, basic disability pension under the National Pension Act, or other such pension, that have old age or retirement or disability as the reason for payment and that are specified by Cabinet Order.

①If a person who has contracted an illness or suffered an injury and who was an insured on the day on which the person underwent the first medical examination with a doctor or dentist in connection for that illness, injury, or for an additional illness caused by that illness or injury (those illnesses or injuries are hereinafter referred to as "injury or illness") (that day is hereinafter referred to as the "day of initial examination") has a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any of the disability grades provided for in the following paragraph due to that injury or illness, as of the day after the day calculated as marking the passage of 1 year and 6 months' time since the day of initial examination (or, if the injury or illness has healed on any day within this period (including a day on which the symptoms thereof have stabilized and circumstances are such as that no curative effect is expected; the same applies hereinafter), as of that day; any day defined above is hereinafter referred to as the "day of disability assessment"), an employees' disability pension is paid to the person in accordance with the severity of the person's disability; provided, however, that this does not apply if, as of the day before the day of initial examination for the relevant injury or illness, the person had had an insured period under a National Pension that lasted up until the month two months before the month that includes the day of initial examination, and further, the total sum of the premium-paid period and the premium-exemption period does not comprise at least two-thirds of the relevant insured period.

②The disability grade is classified in order of severity from Grade 1 to 3, with Grade 1 being the severest, and the description of the disability for each grade is provided by Cabinet Order.

①If a person who has contracted an illness or suffered an injury, who was an insured on the day of initial examination for that injury or illness, and who did not have a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any of the disability grades provided for in paragraph (2) of the preceding Article (hereinafter simply referred to as the "disability grades") as of the day of disability assessment, has come to have a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any of the disability grades due to that injury or illness during the period from the day until the day before the day on which the person reaches the age of 65, the person is entitled to claim the payment of the employees' disability pension under paragraph (1) of that Article during that period.

②The provisions of the proviso to paragraph (1) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to a case under the preceding paragraph.

③Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, if the claim under paragraph (1) of this Article is made, employees' disability pension under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is paid to the person who makes the claim.

①If a person has contracted an illness or suffered an injury, was an insured on the day of initial examination for that injury or illness (hereinafter referred to as the "base injury or illness" in this Article) and has a disability due to an injury or illness other than the base injury or illness, and if the severity of that person's disabilities stemming from a combination of the disability arising from the base injury or illness (hereinafter referred to as the "base disability" in this Article) and other disabilities (but only if the day of initial examination of the base injury or illness is on or after the day of initial examination for the injury or illness other than the base injury or illness (if there are two or more injuries or illnesses other than the base injury or illness, for all injuries or illnesses other than the base injury or illness)) comes to be classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades for the first time during the period from the day of disability assessment for the base injury or illness until the day before the day on which the person reaches the age of 65, the person is paid employees' disability pension in accordance with the severity of the disabilities stemming from a combination of the base disability and other disabilities.

②The provisions of the proviso to Article 47, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to a case under the preceding paragraph. In such a case, the phrase "that injury or illness" in the proviso to paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the base injury or illness".

③Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 36 paragraph (1), payment of employees' disability pension under paragraph (1) of this Article commences from the month that follows the month in which the claim for the employees' disability pension is made.

①If grounds have occurred based on which the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension (excluding the employees' disability pension of a beneficiary who has continuously had a disability of a degree of severity that is not classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades from the time when the person acquired the right to receive benefits; the same applies hereinafter in this and the following Article, Article 52, paragraph (4), Article 52-2, and the proviso to Article 54, paragraph (2)) is to be paid further employees' disability pension, the employees' disability pension is paid in accordance with the severity of the beneficiary's disabilities stemming from a combination of the beneficiary's previous and subsequent disabilities.

②If the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension has, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, acquired a right to benefits under an employees' disability pension for the severity of the beneficiary's disabilities stemming from a combination of the beneficiary's previous and subsequent disabilities, the beneficiary's previous right to benefits under the employees' disability pension ceases to exist.

①If grounds have occurred based on which the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension whose payment has been suspended for a fixed period is to be paid further employees' disability pension, the employees' disability pension that is to be paid pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article in accordance with the severity of the beneficiary's disabilities stemming from a combination of the beneficiary's previous and subsequent disabilities, is to have its payment suspended for the period during which payment of the prior employees' disability pension is to be suspended, and employees' disability pension is paid to the person during that period in accordance with the severity of the beneficiary's disability when not combined with the previous disability.

②Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, if the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension has acquired a further right to an employees' disability pension and the payment of the newly acquired employees' disability pension is to be suspended pursuant to the provisions of Article 54, paragraph (1), the prior employees' disability pension is paid during the period that the payment is to be suspended.

①The amount of an employees' disability pension is an amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1). If the number of months in the insured period that constitutes the basis for calculating the amount of the employees' disability pension in such a case is under 300, it is regarded as 300.

②Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the amount of employees' disability pension to be paid to a person who has a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as Grade 1 of the disability grades is an amount equal to 125/100 of the amount provided for in that paragraph.

③Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, if a disability constituting the grounds for benefits under an employees' disability pension is not one for which a basic disability pension under the National Pension Act may be received, and the amount of the employees' disability pension is less than the amount arrived at when the amount of a basic disability pension provided for in Article 33, paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act is multiplied by three-quarters (3/4) (this amount is rounded to the nearest hundred, with amounts less than 50 yen being rounded down, and amounts between 50 yen and 99 yen being rounded up), the relevant amount is the amount provided for in these paragraphs.

④Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2), if the amount of an employees' disability pension under the provisions of Article 48, paragraph (1) is lower than the amount of the employees' disability pension that has ceased to exist pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article, the amount of the employees' disability pension is an amount equal to the amount of the prior employees' disability pension.

①Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, if the beneficiary has a spouse under 65 years old who is receiving financial support from the beneficiary, the amount of employees' disability pension paid to a person who has a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades is the amount that is calculated when an additional amount of pension is added to the amount provided for in the preceding Article.

②The additional amount of pension provided for in the preceding paragraph is the amount arrived at when the revision rate is multiplied by 224,700 yen (such an amount is rounded to the nearest hundred, with amounts less than 50 yen being rounded down, and amounts between 50 yen and 99 yen being rounded up).

③If an additional amount of pension provided for in paragraph (1) will be added due to the fact that on or after the day following the date on which the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits, the beneficiary has come to have a spouse under 65 years old who is receiving financial support from the beneficiary, the amount of employees' disability pension is revised from the month following the month that includes the day on which the beneficiary came to have that spouse.

④The provisions of Article 44, paragraph (4) (excluding items (v) through (x)) apply mutatis mutandis to an employees' disability pension whose amount has been added to pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1).

⑤Cabinet Order provides for the necessary particulars in connection with certifying that a person is receiving financial support from the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension in order to apply the provisions of paragraph (1), and provides for the necessary particulars in connection with certifying that a person has stopped receiving financial support from the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension in order to apply the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (4), item (ii) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph.

With respect to the amount of an employees' disability pension provided for in Article 50, paragraph (1), the period during which a person was an insured after the month that includes the day of disability assessment for the disability that constitutes the grounds for payment of the relevant employees' disability pension (or, for the employees' disability pension under the provisions of Article 47-3, paragraph (1), the day of disability assessment for the base injury or illness provided for in that paragraph; or, for the employees' disability pension under the provisions of Article 48, paragraph (1), whichever is the latest day among the days of disability assessment for each of the combined disabilities (or, for a disability provided for in Article 47-3, paragraph (1), the day of disability assessment for the base disability provided for in that paragraph)) is not a basis for its calculation.

①If the implementing organization examines the severity of the disability of a beneficiary of the employees' disability pension and finds its degree of severity to be classified as any disability grade other than the previous one, the Minister may revise the amount of the employees' disability pension in accordance with its severity.

②A beneficiary of an employees' disability pension may request the implementing organization to revise the amount of employees' disability pension on account that the severity of disability has worsen.

③A request under the preceding paragraph may only be made after one year has passed since the day on which the beneficiary acquired a right to benefits under an employees' disability pension or underwent an examination by the implementing organization pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), except in a case specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as one in which it is clear that the severity of disability of the beneficiary of the employees' disability pension has worsen.

④If a beneficiary of an employees' disability pension who has contracted an illness or suffered an injury and who was an insured on the day of initial examination for that injury or illness (limited to an injury or illness for which the day of initial examination comes after the day of initial examination for the injury or illness that constitutes the grounds for payment of the relevant employees' disability pension; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph and the proviso to Article 54, paragraph (2)), has a disability (limited to a disability of a degree of severity that is not classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades; hereinafter referred to as "another disability" in this paragraph and the proviso of paragraph (2) of that Article) due to that injury or illness, and if the severity of the beneficiary's disabilities stemming from a combination of the disability constituting the grounds for payment of the relevant employees' disability pension and the other disability (or all other disabilities, if there are two or more other disabilities) has become worse than that of the disability constituting the grounds for payment of that pension during the period from the day of disability assessment for that injury or illness until the day on which the beneficiary reaches 65 years of age, the beneficiary may request the implementing organization to revise the amount of employees' disability pension within that period.

⑤The provisions under the proviso to Article 47 paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to a case under the preceding paragraph.

⑥If the amount of an employees' disability pension has been revised pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), the payment of the revised amount of employees' disability pension is to commence from the month following the month of the revision.

⑦The provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3) and the preceding paragraph do not apply to a person who is 65 years of age or older and also the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension (limited to a person who has no right to receive benefits from a basic disability pension under the National Pension Act based on the same grounds for payment of the relevant employees' disability pension).

①If the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension has come to have a right to receive benefits from a basic disability pension (excluding one that is paid based on the same grounds as the employees' disability pension) under the National Pension Act, the amount of the employees' disability pension in question is revised according to the severity of the beneficiary's disabilities stemming from a combination of the disability constituting the grounds for payment of the employees' disability pension and the disability constituting the grounds for payment of the basic disability pension.

②If the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension has a right to receive benefits from a basic disability pension under the National Pension Act, and the severity of the disabilities stemming from a combination under the provisions of Article 34, paragraph (4) and the proviso to paragraph (2) of Article 36 of that Act has become worse than that of the disability that constitutes the grounds for payment of the relevant basic disability pension, the amount of the relevant employees' disability pension is revised according to the severity of the disabilities stemming from a combination under these provisions.

In addition to the right to receive benefits from an employees' disability pension ceasing to exist pursuant to the provisions of Article 48, paragraph (2), this right ceases to exist if the beneficiary comes to fall under any of the following items:

①Payment of an employees' disability pension is suspended for a period of six years if the beneficiary acquires the right to receive disability compensation pursuant to the provisions of Article 77 of the Labor Standards Act (Act No. 49 of 1947) with regard to the relevant injury or illness.

②If a beneficiary has ceased to have a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as any disability grade, payment of an employees' disability pension is suspended during the period of time in which the beneficiary does not have that disability; provided, however, that this does not apply if the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension has contracted an illness or suffered an injury and was an insured on the day of initial examination for that injury or illness, the beneficiary has other disabilities caused by that injury or illness, and, during the period after the day of disability assessment for the relevant injury or illness up to the day before the date on which the beneficiary reaches the age of 65, the degree of severity of the disabilities stemming from a combination of the disability constituting the grounds for payment of the relevant employees' disability pension and the other disability (or, if there are two or more other disabilities, the disability combined with all other disabilities) is classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades.

③The provisions of Article 46, paragraph (6) apply mutatis mutandis to the employees' disability pension, and the provisions of the proviso to Article 47, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to a case under the proviso to the preceding paragraph.

①If a person who has contracted an illness or suffered an injury and who was an insured on the day of initial examination for the injury or illness has a disability of the degree of severity prescribed by Cabinet Order as a result of that injury or illness as of the day on which the injury or illness has healed, within the period from the relevant day of initial examination until the day that marks the passage of five years' time since that day, a disability allowance is paid to that person.

②The provisions of the proviso of Article 47, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to a case under the preceding paragraph.

Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, a disability allowance is not paid to a person who falls under any of the following items on the day on which the degree of severity of the person's disability is determined pursuant to the provisions of that Article:

The amount of a disability allowance is an amount equal to 200/100 of the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of Article 50, paragraph (1); provided, however, that if this amount is less than the amount arrived at when the number 2 is multiplied by the amount specified in paragraph (3) of that Article, the amount thus arrived at is paid.

①If the insured or former insured falls under any one of the following items, an employees' pension for surviving family is paid to the surviving family of the insured or former insured; provided, however, that this does not apply, in a case that falls under item (i) or (ii) if, as of the day before the day of death, the deceased person had had an insured period under National Pension that lasted up until the month two months before the month that includes the day of death, and further, the total sum of the premium-paid period and the premium-exemption period does not comprise at least two-thirds of the relevant insured period:

②In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, if an insured or former insured who has died falls under any one of items (i) through (iii) of that paragraph, and also falls under item (iv) of that paragraph, the person is deemed to fall only under any one of the items (i) through (iii), and not to fall under item (iv) of that paragraph, unless otherwise specifically requested by the surviving family member of that person if that surviving family member claims the employees' pension for surviving family.

①The surviving family members who may receive an employees' pension for surviving family are the spouse, child, parent, grandchild, or grandparent of an insured or former insured (hereinafter simply referred to as the "spouse", "child", "parent", "grandchild", and "grandparent"), who was receiving financial support from the person at the time of the person's death (in the case of a former insured who was subject to an adjudication of disappearance, at the time that the whereabouts of the person became unknown; the same applies hereinafter in this Article); provided, however, that for persons other than a wife, this is limited to a case in which that person satisfies the following requirements:

②Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, if the person's spouse or child has acquired the right to receive benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family, the person's parent does not constitute a surviving family member who may receive an employees' pension for surviving family; if the spouse, child, or parent has acquired the right to receive those benefits, the person's grandchild does not constitute a surviving family member who may receive that pension; and if the person's spouse, child, parent, or grandchild has acquired the right to receive those benefits, the person's grandparent does not constitute a surviving family member who may receive that pension.

③To apply the provisions of paragraph (1) when a child is born who was in utero at the time of the insured's or former insured's death, the child is deemed, prospectively, to have been receiving financial support from the insured or former insured at the time of death thereof.

④Cabinet Order provides for the necessary particulars in connection with certifying that a person was receiving financial support from the insured or former insured in order to apply the provisions of paragraph (1).

To apply the provisions related to the payment of employees' pension for surviving family to a case in which it is not known for a period of three months whether an insured or former insured who was on board a ship at the time it sank, capsized, was destroyed, or went missing is alive or dead; to a case in which it is not known for a period of three months whether an insured or former insured who was on board a ship and went missing while the ship was sailing is alive or dead; or to a case in which it becomes clear within three months that such a person has died but the time of death is unknown; that person is presumed to have died on the day on which the ship sank, capsized, was destroyed, or went missing or on the day on which a person went missing. The same applies if it is not known for a period of three months whether an insured or former insured who was on board an airplane at the time the airplane crashed, was destroyed, or went missing is alive or dead; if it is not known for a period of three months whether an insured or former insured who was on board an airplane and went missing while the airplane was flying is alive or dead; or if it becomes clear within three months that such a person has died but the time of death is unknown.

①The amount of an employees' pension for surviving family is the amount provided for in each of the following items in accordance with the classification prescribed in the relevant item; provided, however, that this means the amount prescribed in item (i), if a beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family receives a basic pension for surviving family under the National Pension Act based on the same grounds as those for the relevant employees' pension for surviving family:

②Notwithstanding the provisions of item (i) of the preceding paragraph, if the employees' pension for surviving family is paid to a person other than the spouse and there are two or more beneficiaries, the amount of the employees' pension for surviving family is the amount arrived at when the amount that was computed pursuant to the provisions of that item for each of the beneficiaries is divided by the number of beneficiaries.

③Beyond as specified in the preceding two paragraphs, Cabinet Order provides for the necessary particulars of the calculation of the amount of an employees' pension for surviving family.

①If 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.

②If, 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.

③If 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.

①If the wife who is the beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family (excluding one that is paid due to the relevant person falling under Article 58, paragraph (1), item (iv), and is calculated based on an insured period of 240 months or less), and who was at least 40 but below 65 years of age at the time that she acquired the right to receive those benefits, or was living off the same financial resources as an insured's or former insured's child falling under the requirements provided for in Article 37-2 paragraph (1) of the National Pension Act (excluding a child who came to fall under items (ii) through (viii) of Article 39, paragraph (3) of that Act after the death of the insured or former insured) at the time that she reached the age of 40, is under 65 years of age, the amount arrived at when the amount of the basic pension for surviving family provided for in Article 38 of that Act is multiplied by three-quarters (those amounts are rounded to the nearest hundred, with amounts less than 50 yen be rounded down, and amounts between 50 yen and 99 yen being rounded up) is added to the employees' pension for surviving family under Article 60, paragraph (1), item (i).

②The revision of the amount of a pension as the result of the occurrence of grounds for instituting an addition under the preceding paragraph or for discontinuing the addition under that paragraph is effected from the month following the month in which the grounds occurred.

①The right to receive benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family ceases to exist if a beneficiary comes to fall under any of the following items:

②The right to receive benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family that is held by a child or grandchild ceases to exist if the child or grandchild comes to fall under one of the following items:

③The right to receive benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family that is held by a parent, grandchild, or grandparent ceases to exist if a child who was in utero at the time of the insured or former insured's death is born.

If the compensation for surviving family under the provisions of Article 79 of the Labor Standards Act is to be paid for the death of an insured or former insured, the payment of the employees' pension for surviving family is suspended during the six-year period after the day of death.

If the beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family (but only one with a beneficiary who has reached the age of 65) has the right to receive an employees' old-age pension, payment of the part of the employees' pension for surviving family that is equivalent to the amount of the beneficiary's employees' old-age pension is suspended.

If the beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family to which an additional amount has been added pursuant to the provisions of Article 62 paragraph (1) is the wife, and if she is entitled to receive a basic pension for surviving family under the National Pension Act in connection with the death of the relevant insured or former insured, during that time, payment is suspended on the portion of the relevant employees' pension for surviving family that is equal to the additional amount provided for in that paragraph.

Payment of an employees' pension for surviving family to the husband, parents, or grandparents is suspended during the period until the beneficiary reaches the age of 60; provided, however, that this does not apply to an employees' pension for surviving family to be paid to the husband, if the husband has the right to receive benefits from a basic pension for surviving family under the National Pension Act in connection with the death of that insured or former insured.

①Payment of an employees' pension for surviving family to a child is suspended for the period during which the spouse holds the right to receive benefits from the employees' pension for surviving family; provided, however, that this does not apply during a period in which the payment of an employees' pension for surviving family to the spouse is suspended pursuant to the provisions of the main clause of the preceding Article, the main clause of the following paragraph, or the following Article.

②If, with regard to the death of the insured or former insured, the spouse does not hold the right to receive benefits from a basic pension for surviving family under the National Pension Act but the child does hold the right to receive benefits from the basic pension for surviving family, payment of any employees' pension for surviving family to the spouse is suspended during that period; provided, however, that this does not apply during a period in which the payment of the employees' pension for surviving family to the child is suspended pursuant to the provisions of the following Article.

①If the whereabouts of the spouse or a child remain unknown for one year or longer, the payment of an employees' pension for surviving family to that spouse or child is suspended retroactively to the time at which the whereabouts of the spouse or child became unknown, upon the application of a child or spouse who holds the right to receive benefits from the employees' pension for surviving family.

②The spouse or child may, at any time, apply to have a suspension of payment under the provisions of the preceding paragraph lifted.

①If there are two or more beneficiaries of an employees' pension for surviving family who are not the spouse, and the whereabouts of one or more of the beneficiaries remain unknown for one year or longer, the payment of the employees' pension for surviving family to that person is suspended retroactively to the time at which the whereabouts of the person or persons became unknown, upon the application of another beneficiary.

②A person who has had their payment of an employees' pension for surviving family suspended pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may, at any time, apply to have the suspension of payment lifted.

③The provisions of Article 61, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis if the payment of the employees' pension for surviving family is suspended pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or if the suspension is lifted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. In such a case, the phrase "the month in which the number increased or decreased" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the month in which the payment is suspended or the suspension is lifted".

If an insured or former insured person has intentionally brought about their disability or an accident constituting the direct cause thereof, no employees' disability pension or disability allowance that has that disability as the grounds for payment is paid.

If an insured or former insured has brought about their disability, death, or an accident constituting the direct cause thereof, or has worsen the severity of their disability or hindered the recovery thereof, through an intentional criminal act, gross negligence, or a failure to comply with medical instructions that is without reasonable grounds, it is permissible not to pay insurance benefits in whole or in part.

If the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension has worsen the severity of their disability or hindered the recovery thereof, intentionally, through gross negligence, or due to a failure to comply with medical instructions that is without reasonable grounds, it is permissible not to effect the revision under the provisions of Article 52 paragraph (1); and it is permissible to consider the degree of severity of that person's disability to be classified as a lower disability grade than the disability grade it is actually classified as in effecting a revision under that paragraph.

If the right to collect insurance premiums is extinguished by prescription, no insurance benefits are paid based on any period during which an insured was subject to the insurance premiums; provided, however, that this does not apply if the right to collect insurance premiums has been extinguished by prescription after the filing of a notification under the provisions of Article 27 or a request for confirmation under the provisions of Article 31, paragraph (1), or a request for correction under the provisions of Article 28-2, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis in paragraph (2) and paragraph (3) of that Article) in connection with the relevant period for the insured with regard to the person's acquisition of the status of an insured.

①An employees' pension for surviving family is not paid to a person who has intentionally caused the death of an insured or former insured. The same applies with regard to a person who, prior to the death of an insured or former insured, has intentionally caused the death of a person who would have become the beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family upon the death of the insured or former insured.

②The right to receive benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family ceases to exist if a beneficiary intentionally causes the death of another beneficiary.

Payment of pension insurance benefits may be suspended in whole or in part in a case that falls under one of the following items:

①If a beneficiary fails to make a notification or submit documents or other items under the provisions of Article 98, paragraph (3), without reasonable grounds, the payment of the insurance benefits may be suspended temporary ly.

②The provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply to insurance benefits based on the category II EPI insured period, category III EPI insured period, or category IV EPI insured period.