①A person who has the right to receive an old-age basic pension and who has not claimed that old-age basic pension before reaching 66 years of age may make a request to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare to defer payment of that old-age basic pension. However, this does not apply where, when that person reached 65 years of age, the person was a person entitled to receive another benefit that is a pension (meaning another pension benefit (excluding the additional pension) or an insurance benefit that is a pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (excluding one for which old age is the ground for payment); the same applies hereinafter in this Article), or where the person became a person entitled to receive another benefit that is a pension during the period from the day the person reached 65 years of age to the day the person reached 66 years of age.

②When a person listed in the following items makes the request under the preceding paragraph (excluding that request in a case where the request under the preceding paragraph is deemed, under the provisions of paragraph (5), to have been made; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) after the day the person reached 66 years of age, the request under the preceding paragraph is deemed to have been made on the day specified in the relevant item.

③Payment of the old-age basic pension to a person who has made the request under paragraph (1) (including that request in a case where the request under paragraph (1) is deemed, under the provisions of paragraph (5), to have been made; the same applies in the following paragraph) is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (1), to begin from the month following the month in which the day of that request falls.

④The amount of the old-age basic pension paid to a person who has made the request under paragraph (1) is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 27, the amount obtained by adding, to the amount specified in that Article, an amount specified by Cabinet Order.

⑤When a person who may make a request to defer payment of an old-age basic pension under the provisions of paragraph (1) claims that old-age basic pension after the day of reaching 70 years of age, and does not make the request under that paragraph at the time of that claim, the request under that paragraph is deemed to have been made on the day five years before the day of that claim. However, this does not apply where that person falls under any of the following items.

The right to receive an old-age basic pension is extinguished when the person entitled to receive it dies.

①A disability basic pension is paid to a person who has suffered an illness or been injured, and who, on the date of first receiving medical examination or treatment from a physician or dentist for that illness or injury and an illness resulting from it (hereinafter referred to as "injury or illness") (hereinafter referred to as the "date of first medical examination"), fell under any of the following items, when, on the day on which one year and six months have elapsed, calculated from that date of first medical examination (or, where that injury or illness was cured within that period, the day it was cured (including the day on which the symptoms became fixed and no further therapeutic effect could be expected); hereinafter referred to as the "disability recognition date"), that person is, because of that injury or illness, in a state of disability to the extent of falling under the disability grade prescribed in the following paragraph. However, this does not apply where, on the day preceding the date of first medical examination relating to that injury or illness, the person had an insured period up to the month two months before the month in which that date of first medical examination falls, and the period obtained by combining the premium-paid period and the premium exemption period relating to that insured period is less than two-thirds of that insured period.

②The disability grade is, according to the degree of disability, Grade 1 and Grade 2 in order from the most severe, and the state of disability for each grade is specified by Cabinet Order.

①Where a person who has suffered an illness or been injured, and who fell under any of the items of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article on the date of first medical examination relating to that injury or illness, and who was not in a state of disability to the extent of falling under the disability grade prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article (hereinafter simply referred to as the "disability grade") on the disability recognition date, comes, during the period after that date until the day preceding the day of reaching 65 years of age, to be in a state of disability to the extent of falling under the disability grade because of that injury or illness, that person may, within that period, claim payment of the disability basic pension under paragraph (1) of that Article.

②The provisions of the proviso to paragraph (1) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph.

③When the claim under paragraph (1) has been made, the disability basic pension under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is paid to the person who made that claim, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph.

④With respect to a disability employees' pension under the provisions of Article 47 or Article 47-2 of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act based on the same ground for payment as the disability basic pension under paragraph (1), when its amount has been revised under the provisions of Article 52 of that Act, the claim under that paragraph is deemed to have been made at that time.

①Where a person who has suffered an illness or been injured, and who fell under any of the items of Article 30, paragraph (1) on the date of first medical examination relating to that injury or illness (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "reference injury or illness"), and who is in a state of disability due to an injury or illness other than the reference injury or illness, comes, for the first time, during the period from the disability recognition date relating to the reference injury or illness until the day preceding the day of reaching 65 years of age, to be in a state of disability to the extent of falling under the disability grade by combining the disability caused by the reference injury or illness (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "reference disability") with the other disability (limited to a case where the date of first medical examination for the reference injury or illness is on or after the date of first medical examination for the injury or illness other than the reference injury or illness (or, where there are two or more injuries or illnesses other than the reference injury or illness, all of the injuries or illnesses other than the reference injury or illness)), a disability basic pension is paid to that person according to the degree of disability obtained by combining the reference disability with the other disability.

②The provisions of the proviso to Article 30, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "that injury or illness" in the proviso to paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "reference injury or illness".

③Payment of the disability basic pension under paragraph (1) is, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (1), to begin from the month following the month in which the claim for that disability basic pension was made.

①Where a person who has suffered an illness or been injured, and who was under 20 years of age on the date of first medical examination, is in a state of disability to the extent of falling under the disability grade, on the day of reaching 20 years of age, if the person reaches 20 years of age on or after the disability recognition date, or on that disability recognition date, if the disability recognition date is after the day of reaching 20 years of age, a disability basic pension is paid to that person.

②Where a person who has suffered an illness or been injured, and who was under 20 years of age on the date of first medical examination (limited to a person who was not an insured person on that date), comes, because of that injury or illness, to be in a state of disability to the extent of falling under the disability grade, during the period until the day preceding the day of reaching 65 years of age, after the day of reaching 20 years of age, if the person reaches 20 years of age on or after the disability recognition date, or after that disability recognition date, if the disability recognition date is after the day of reaching 20 years of age, that person may, within that period, claim payment of the disability basic pension under the preceding paragraph.

③The provisions of Article 30-2, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred to in the preceding paragraph.

①When grounds for paying a further disability basic pension arise for a person entitled to receive a disability basic pension, a disability basic pension is paid according to the degree of disability obtained by combining the earlier and later disabilities.

②When a person entitled to receive a disability basic pension has acquired, under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the right to receive a disability basic pension according to the degree of disability obtained by combining the earlier and later disabilities, the right to receive the previous disability basic pension is extinguished.

①When grounds for paying a further disability basic pension arise for a person entitled to receive a disability basic pension whose payment is suspended for a fixed period, payment of the disability basic pension paid under the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article according to the degree of disability obtained by combining the earlier and later disabilities is suspended for the period during which payment of the previous disability basic pension should have been suspended, and during that period, a disability basic pension according to the degree of disability without combining the previous disability is paid to that person.

②Where a person entitled to receive a disability basic pension has further acquired the right to receive a disability basic pension, if the newly acquired disability basic pension is one whose payment is to be suspended under the provisions of Article 36, paragraph (1), the previous disability basic pension is paid to that person, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, for the period during which payment is to be suspended.

①The amount of the disability basic pension is the amount obtained by multiplying 780,900 yen by the revision rate (if a fraction of less than 50 yen arises in that amount, 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).

②The amount of the disability basic pension paid to a person whose degree of disability falls under Grade 1 of the disability grade is, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the amount equivalent to 125 percent of the amount specified in that paragraph.

①The amount of the disability basic pension is, when there is a child of the person entitled to receive it whose livelihood is maintained by that person (limited to a child who is in the period up to the first March 31 on or after the day of reaching 18 years of age, and a child who is under 20 years of age and in a state of disability falling under the disability grade), 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 such child (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, because the person entitled to receive the benefit has come to have, on or after the day following the day the person acquired that right, a child of that person whose livelihood is maintained by that person (limited to a child who is in the period up to the first March 31 on or after the day of reaching 18 years of age, and a child who is under 20 years of age and in a state of disability falling under the disability grade), the amount is to be added to under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the amount of the disability basic pension is revised from the month following the month in which the day of coming to have that child falls.

③With respect to a disability basic pension whose amount has been increased under the provisions of paragraph (1), when one or two or more of the children 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.

④For the purposes of applying the provisions of paragraph (1) or item (ii) of the preceding paragraph, the matters necessary for determining whether a child's livelihood is maintained by the person entitled to receive the disability basic pension, or whether the state of that person maintaining the child's livelihood has ceased, are specified by Cabinet Order.