①The spouse or child who may receive a survivors' basic pension is the spouse or child of the insured person or the person who was an insured person (hereinafter simply referred to as the "spouse" or "child") who, at the time of the death of the insured person or the person who was an insured person, had their livelihood maintained by that person, and who fell under the requirements listed below.

②When a child who was an unborn child at the time of the death of the insured person or the person who was an insured person is born, for the purposes of applying the provisions of the preceding paragraph, that child is, with effect for the future, deemed to have had their livelihood maintained by the insured person or the person who was an insured person at the time of that person's death, and the spouse is deemed to have shared a livelihood with that child at the time of that person's death.

③For the purposes of applying the provisions of paragraph (1), the matters necessary for determining whether a person's livelihood was maintained by the insured person or the person who was an insured person are specified by Cabinet Order.

The amount of the survivors' 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).

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.

①The amount of the survivors' basic pension paid to a child is, when there are two or more children who have acquired the right to receive the survivors' basic pension with respect to the death of that insured person or person who was an insured person, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 38, the amount obtained by dividing, by the number of those children, 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 of those children excluding one of them (for one of them, the amount obtained by multiplying 224,700 yen by the revision rate; 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).

②In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, when there is an increase or decrease in the number of children who hold the right to receive the survivors' basic pension, the amount of the survivors' basic pension is revised from the month following the month in which the day of that increase or decrease falls.

①The right to receive a survivors' basic pension is extinguished when the person entitled to receive it comes to fall under any of the following items.

②A spouse's right to receive a survivors' basic pension is extinguished, in addition to under the preceding paragraph, when the child prescribed in Article 39, paragraph (1) comes to fall under any of the items of paragraph (3) of that Article — that child, if there is one child prescribed in that paragraph, or, if there are two or more, all of them, whether at the same time or at different times.

③A child's right to receive a survivors' basic pension is extinguished, in addition to under paragraph (1), when the child comes to fall under any of the following items.

①Where compensation for surviving family under the provisions of the Labor Standards Act is to be paid in respect of the death of the insured person or the person who had been an insured person concerned, payment of the survivors' basic pension is suspended for six years from the date of death.

②Payment of a survivors' basic pension to a child is suspended during the period in which the spouse has the right to receive a survivors' basic pension (excluding a case where payment of the survivors' basic pension to the spouse is suspended under Article 20-2, paragraph (1) or (2), or under paragraph (1) of the following Article), or in which there is a father or mother of the child who shares a livelihood with the child.

①Where the whereabouts of a spouse have been unknown for one year or more, payment of the survivors' basic pension to the spouse is suspended, upon the application of a child having the right to receive a survivors' basic pension, retroactively to the time when the whereabouts became unknown.

②The spouse may apply at any time for the cancellation of the suspension of payment under the preceding paragraph.

①Where there are two or more children having the right to receive a survivors' basic pension, and the whereabouts of one or more of the children have been unknown for one year or more, payment of the survivors' basic pension to that child is suspended, upon the application of another child, retroactively to the time when the whereabouts became unknown.

②A child whose payment of a survivors' basic pension has been suspended under the preceding paragraph may apply at any time for the cancellation of the suspension of payment.

③The provisions of Article 39-2, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis where payment of a survivors' basic pension is suspended under paragraph (1), or where the suspension is canceled under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "day on which the increase or decrease occurred" in paragraph (2) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "day on which the payment was suspended or the suspension was canceled".

The additional pension is paid to a person having a premium-paid period relating to the premium under Article 87-2, paragraph (1), when that person acquires the right to receive an old-age basic pension.

The amount of the additional pension is the amount obtained by multiplying 200 yen by the number of months of premium-paid periods relating to the premium under Article 87-2, paragraph (1).

①When a National Pension Fund or the National Pension Fund Association is dissolved, the provisions of the preceding two Articles apply by deeming the periods listed in the following items to be, respectively, premium-paid periods relating to the premium under Article 87-2, paragraph (1).

②In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the National Pension Fund, or the National Pension Fund Association that was obligated to pay the pension to the person who had been a member of the National Pension Fund, is dissolved after that person acquired the right to receive the additional pension, the amount of that additional pension is revised from the month following the month in which the National Pension Fund or the National Pension Fund Association was dissolved.

③In the case referred to in paragraph (1), where the National Pension Fund, or the National Pension Fund Association that was obligated to pay the pension to the person who had been a member of the National Pension Fund, is dissolved after that person acquired the right to receive the old-age basic pension (excluding a case falling under the preceding paragraph), for the purpose of applying the provisions of Article 43 to that person, the term "acquires the right to receive the old-age basic pension" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "the National Pension Fund of which the person was a member, or the National Pension Fund Association that was obligated to pay the pension to the person, is dissolved".