①The amount of the survivors' basic pension paid to the spouse is, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, the amount obtained by adding, to the amount specified in that Article, the amount obtained by multiplying 74,900 yen by the revision rate (meaning the revision rate as revised on the assumption that the provisions of Article 27-3 and Article 27-5 do not apply; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) for each child who, at the time the spouse acquired the right to receive the survivors' basic pension, fell under the requirement prescribed in Article 37-2, paragraph (1) and shared a livelihood with that person (for up to two of them, the amount obtained by multiplying 224,700 yen by the revision rate for each; if a fraction of less than 50 yen arises in those amounts, it is to be rounded down, and if a fraction of 50 yen or more but less than 100 yen arises, it is to be rounded up to 100 yen).

②When a child who was an unborn child at the time the spouse acquired the right to receive the survivors' basic pension is born, for the purposes of applying the provisions of the preceding paragraph, that child is deemed to be a child who, at the time the spouse acquired that right, fell under the requirement prescribed in Article 37-2, paragraph (1) and shared a livelihood with that person, and the amount of the survivors' basic pension is revised from the month following the month in which the day of that birth falls.

③With respect to a survivors' basic pension paid to the spouse, where there are two or more children prescribed in paragraph (1), when one or two or more of the children excluding one of them come to fall under any of the following items, the amount of the pension is revised, according to the number of children who have come to fall under it, from the month following the month in which the day of coming to fall under it falls.