①In the case where a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions (limited to one based on a category I EPI insured period or a category IV EPI insured period) is a person who holds the right to receive old-age pension benefits for a dissolved Fund, and payment of that employees' old-age pension is suspended in its entirety pursuant to the provisions of Article 11 or Article 11-2 of the Supplementary Provisions, payment of the portion of the old-age pension benefits for a dissolved Fund (excluding the portion equivalent to the amount added pursuant to Article 161, paragraph (5) as it was prior to the amendment by Article 1 of the 2013 Amendment Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 61, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act; hereinafter in this Article and the following Article referred to as the "substitutional portion for a dissolved Fund") that is equivalent to the amount (referred to as the "suspended amount" in paragraph (5)) obtained by multiplying the amount obtained by deducting the amount of the employees' old-age pension from the standard amount for a payment suspension (meaning the standard amount for a payment suspension prescribed in paragraph (3), item (i) of the preceding Article) by the rate obtained by dividing the amount of the substitutional portion for a dissolved Fund by the total substitute portion (or, if that amount is the amount of the substitutional portion for a dissolved Fund or more, the whole of the substitutional portion for a dissolved Fund) is suspended.

②In the case where a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension for mine workers and mariners (limited to one based on a category I EPI insured period or a category IV EPI insured period) is a person who holds the right to receive old-age pension benefits for a dissolved Fund, and payment of that employees' old-age pension is suspended in its entirety, or payment of the portion equivalent to the amount obtained by deducting the additional amount of pension for mine workers and mariners from the amount of that employees' old-age pension (limited to one to which the additional amount of pension for mine workers and mariners is added) is suspended in its entirety, pursuant to the provisions of Article 11-3 or Article 11-4, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the Supplementary Provisions, payment of the portion of the substitutional portion for a dissolved Fund that is equivalent to the amount (referred to as the "amount suspended for mine workers and mariners" in paragraph (5)) obtained by multiplying the amount obtained by deducting the amount of the employees' old-age pension (excluding the additional amount of pension for mine workers and mariners and the amount prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions referred to in Article 11-4, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions pertaining to an employees' old-age pension to which the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) of that Article apply) from the standard amount for a payment suspension (meaning the standard amount for a payment suspension prescribed in paragraph (4), item (ii) of the preceding Article) by the rate obtained by dividing the amount of the substitutional portion for a dissolved Fund by the total substitute portion for mine workers and mariners (or, if that amount is the amount of the substitutional portion for a dissolved Fund or more, the whole of the substitutional portion for a dissolved Fund) is suspended.

③In the case where a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions (limited to one based on a category I EPI insured period or a category IV EPI insured period) is a person who holds the right to receive old-age pension benefits for a dissolved Fund, and payment of that employees' old-age pension is suspended in its entirety pursuant to the provisions of Article 11-6, paragraphs (1) and (7) of the Supplementary Provisions (including as applied mutatis mutandis to those provisions pursuant to paragraph (8) of that Article), payment of the portion of the substitutional portion for a dissolved Fund that is equivalent to the amount (referred to as the "suspended amount for a person receiving continued employment benefits" in paragraph (5)) obtained by multiplying the amount obtained by deducting the amount of the employees' old-age pension from the adjusted standard amount for a payment suspension (meaning the adjusted standard amount for a payment suspension prescribed in paragraph (4), item (iii) of the preceding Article) by the rate obtained by dividing the amount of the substitutional portion for a dissolved Fund by the total substitute portion (or, if that amount is the amount of the substitutional portion for a dissolved Fund or more, the whole of the substitutional portion for a dissolved Fund) is suspended.

④In the case where a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension for mine workers and mariners (limited to one based on a category I EPI insured period or a category IV EPI insured period) is a person who holds the right to receive old-age pension benefits for a dissolved Fund, and payment of that employees' old-age pension is suspended in its entirety, or payment of the portion equivalent to the amount obtained by deducting the additional amount of pension for mine workers and mariners from the amount of that employees' old-age pension (limited to one to which the additional amount of pension for mine workers and mariners is added) is suspended in its entirety, pursuant to the provisions of Article 11-6, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions as read with the deemed replacement of terms in paragraph (3) of that Article, or paragraph (4) of that Article as read with the deemed replacement of terms in paragraph (5) of that Article, and paragraph (7) of that Article (including as applied mutatis mutandis to those provisions pursuant to paragraph (8) of that Article), payment of the portion of the substitutional portion for a dissolved Fund that is equivalent to the amount (referred to as the "suspended amount for an underground mine worker or mariner receiving continued employment benefits" in the following paragraph) obtained by multiplying the amount obtained by deducting the amount of the employees' old-age pension (excluding the additional amount of pension for mine workers and mariners) from the adjusted standard amount for a payment suspension (meaning the adjusted standard amount for a payment suspension prescribed in paragraph (4), item (iv) of the preceding Article) by the rate obtained by dividing the amount of the substitutional portion for a dissolved Fund by the total substitute portion for mine workers and mariners (or, if that amount is the amount of the substitutional portion for a dissolved Fund or more, the whole of the substitutional portion for a dissolved Fund) is suspended.

⑤The handling of fractions of less than one yen that arise in calculating the suspended amount, the amount suspended for mine workers and mariners, the suspended amount for a person receiving continued employment benefits, and the suspended amount for an underground mine worker or mariner receiving continued employment benefits is specified by Cabinet Order.

The provisions of Article 7-4 of the Supplementary Provisions apply mutatis mutandis to the substitutional portion for a dissolved Fund in the case where a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions is a person who holds the right to receive old-age pension benefits for a dissolved Fund. In this case, the term "beneficiary" in Article 7-4, paragraphs (1) through (3) of the Supplementary Provisions is deemed to be replaced with "person who holds the right to receive", and the phrase "Article 46, paragraph (1) and Article 46, paragraph (5) as it was prior to the amendment by Article 1 of the 2013 Amendment Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act" in paragraph (2), item (ii) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Articles 11 through 11-3 of the Supplementary Provisions or Article 11-4, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the Supplementary Provisions".

①A person prescribed in each paragraph of Article 8-2 of the Supplementary Provisions who falls under all of the items of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions (limited to a person who is not an insured under the National Pension pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act) may, before reaching the age set forth in the right-hand column of the table in the relevant paragraph of Article 8-2 of the Supplementary Provisions, make to an implementing organization a request for early payment of an employees' old-age pension.

②A request under the preceding paragraph must, in the case of a person who is able to make the request for early payment prescribed in Article 9-2, paragraph (1) or Article 9-2-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the National Pension Act, be made at the same time as those requests.

③When the request under paragraph (1) is made, an employees' old-age pension is paid to the person from the month that includes the day on which the request was made, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 42.

④The amount of the employees' old-age pension under the provisions of the preceding paragraph is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (1), the amount obtained by deducting the amount specified by Cabinet Order from the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph.

⑤When a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of paragraph (3) who has an insured period on or after the day on which the request under paragraph (1) was made reaches the age set forth in the right-hand column of the table in each paragraph of Article 8-2 of the Supplementary Provisions, the period of being an insured before the month that includes the day on which the person reached that age is to be the basis for calculating the amount of that employees' old-age pension, and the amount of the pension is revised from the month following the month that includes the day on which the person reached that age.

⑥When a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of paragraph (3) who has an insured period on or after the day on which the person reached the age set forth in the right-hand column of the table in each paragraph of Article 8-2 of the Supplementary Provisions reaches the age of 65, the period of being an insured before the month that includes the day on which the person reached the age of 65 is to be the basis for calculating the amount of that employees' old-age pension, and the amount of the pension is revised from the month following the month that includes the day on which the person reached the age of 65.

⑦When applying Article 44 and Article 44-2 as it was prior to the amendment by Article 1 of the 2013 Amendment Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, to the amount of the employees' old-age pension under the provisions of paragraph (3), in Article 44, paragraph (1), the phrase "at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits" is deemed to be replaced with "at the time that the beneficiary of the employees' old-age pension under Article 13-4, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions reached the age of 65 (or, if the person is a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension to which the early payment adjustment amount prescribed in Article 13-5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "early payment adjustment amount") has been added, the age set forth in the right-hand column of the table in each paragraph of Article 8-2 of the Supplementary Provisions (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "special starting age for payment"); the same applies in paragraph (3))", the phrase "at the time that the beneficiary acquired the right to receive those benefits" with "at the time the beneficiary reached the age of 65 (or, if the person is a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension to which the early payment adjustment amount has been added, the special starting age for payment)", the phrase "Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3)" with "Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3), or Article 13-4, paragraph (6) of the Supplementary Provisions (or, if the person is a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension to which the early payment adjustment amount has been added, Article 43, paragraph (3) or Article 13-4, paragraph (5) or (6) of the Supplementary Provisions)", the phrase "Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43" with "Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 43, paragraphs (2) and (3) and Article 13-4, paragraphs (4) through (6) of the Supplementary Provisions", and the phrase "is calculated by adding an additional amount of pension to the amount provided for in that Article" with "an additional amount of pension is added to the amount provided for in those provisions, and the amount of the pension is revised from the month following the month that includes the day on which the person reached the age of 65 (or, if the person is a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension to which the early payment adjustment amount has been added, the special starting age for payment) or from the month in which the number of months in the insured period came to be 240 or more pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3)"; in Article 44, paragraph (3), the phrase "at the time the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits" is deemed to be replaced with "at the time the beneficiary of the employees' old-age pension under Article 13-4, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions reached the age of 65"; and in Article 44-2, paragraph (1) as it was prior to the amendment by Article 1 of the 2013 Amendment Act, which remains in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 86, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the 2013 Amendment Act, the phrase "Article 43, paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 13-4, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions", and the phrase "Article 132, paragraph (2)" with "Article 132, paragraph (2) as it was prior to the amendment by Article 1 of the Act Partially Amending the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, etc. for Ensuring the Soundness and Reliability of the Public Pension System (Act No. 63 of 2013), which remains in force pursuant to Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act, as read with the deemed replacement of terms pursuant to the provisions of Article 13-7, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of this Act".

⑧While a beneficiary of an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of paragraph (3) the amount of which has been increased pursuant to Article 44, paragraph (1) as deemed to be replaced under the provisions of the preceding paragraph (excluding one to which the early payment adjustment amount prescribed in Article 13-5, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions has been added by reason of the person being a person prescribed in Article 8-2, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions) (limited to a person who has not reached the age of 65) is subject to the provisions of Article 13-5, paragraph (5) or (6) of the Supplementary Provisions, payment of the portion equivalent to the amount added pursuant to Article 44, paragraph (1) as deemed to be replaced under the provisions of the preceding paragraph is suspended.

⑨When a person prescribed in each paragraph of Article 8-2 of the Supplementary Provisions acquires the right to benefits from an employees' old-age pension under the provisions of paragraph (3), the provisions of Article 8 of the Supplementary Provisions do not apply to that person.