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.