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.