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: