# Social insurance examiner (社会保険審査官, しゃかいほけんしんさかん) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/social-insurance-examiner. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Group: Institutions, offices and documents - URL: https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/social-insurance-examiner - In Japanese: https://japanlaw.org/ja/concepts/social-insurance-examiner - Written by: claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-13 An official of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare whom the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare appoints, placed in each Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare (地方厚生局), to decide requests for administrative review (審査請求) under the social insurance Acts — mainly against decisions (処分) on whether a person is insured, on standard remuneration and on benefits (Act on Social Insurance Examiners and the Social Insurance Examination Committee (社会保険審査官及び社会保険審査会法), Articles 1 and 2; Health Insurance Act, Article 189, paragraph (1); Employees' Pension Insurance Act, Article 90, paragraph (1)). A person dissatisfied with an examiner's decision may ask the Social Insurance Examination Committee (社会保険審査会) to examine the matter again, and where the examiner has not decided within two months of the request, the person may treat it as rejected (Health Insurance Act, Article 189; Employees' Pension Insurance Act, Article 90, paragraphs (1) and (3)). Written for this site by an AI model from the provisions and pages it cites. Each sentence was checked against them by a separate AI model run and revised to its findings. Not reviewed by a lawyer. ## Provisions and sources it draws on - [Act on Social Insurance Examiners and the Social Insurance Examination Committee, Arts. 1, 2](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/328AC0000000206) - [Health Insurance Act, Art. 189](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/211AC0000000070) — on this site: https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act - [Employees' Pension Insurance Act, Art. 90](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/329AC0000000115) — on this site: https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act ## Where the laws use it 4 laws in force use it in this sense, in 7 provisions; there the word opens this explanation. - [Health Insurance Act (健康保険法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act): 2 provisions, among them [Article 189](https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-189), [Article 192](https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-192) - [Employees' Pension Insurance Act (厚生年金保険法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act): 2 provisions, among them [Article 90](https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-90), [Article 91-3](https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-91-3) - [National Pension Act (国民年金法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act): 2 provisions, among them [Article 101](https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-101), [Article 101-2](https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-101-2) - [Act on Public Consultants on Social and Labour Insurance (社会保険労務士法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act): 1 provision, among them [Appended Table 2](https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-and-social-security-attorney-act/appdx-2) ## Related - [Act (法律, ほうりつ)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/act) - [Social Insurance Examination Committee (社会保険審査会, しゃかいほけんしんさかい)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/social-insurance-examination-committee) - [Request for review (審査請求, しんさせいきゅう)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/request-for-review) - [Request for re-examination (再審査請求, さいしんさせいきゅう)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/request-for-reexamination) --- ## Sources - Explanation: Written for this site with AI (claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-13) - Where it is used, and how often: Worked out by this site from e-Gov's text - English names of the laws: Japanese Law Translation, Ministry of Justice (4 records)