Where a person entitled to receive a pension benefit has died, if there is a pension benefit that should have been paid to the deceased person but has not yet been paid to that person, the spouse, child, parent, grandchild, grandparent, or sibling of that person, or a relative within the third degree of kinship other than these persons, who shared living expenses with that person at the time of that person's death, may, in their own name, claim payment of that unpaid pension.
In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the deceased person was a person entitled to receive a survivors' basic pension, a child of the insured person or person who was an insured person that, at the time of that person's death, constituted a requirement for the payment of that survivors' basic pension or was the subject of an addition to its amount, is deemed to be a child as prescribed in that paragraph.
In the case referred to in paragraph (1), if the deceased person entitled to receive a benefit had not claimed that pension before death, a person prescribed in that paragraph may, in their own name, claim that pension.
The order of priority of persons entitled to receive an unpaid pension is specified by Cabinet Order.
未支給の年金を受けるべき者の順位は、政令で定める。
When there are two or more persons of the same order of priority who are entitled to receive an unpaid pension, a claim made by one of them is deemed to have been made by all of them for the full amount, and a payment made to one of them is deemed to have been made to all of them.
未支給の年金を受けるべき同順位者が二人以上あるときは、その一人のした請求は、全員のためその全額につきしたものとみなし、その一人に対してした支給は、全員に対してしたものとみなす。