# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第五十条の二 (Article 50-2)

- Law: 厚生年金保険法 (Employees' Pension Insurance Act), 昭和二十九年法律第百十五号
- English title "Employees' Pension Insurance Act": Ministry of Justice translation
- Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第五十条の二 (Article 50-2) — address `art-50-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-50-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-50-2
- Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it.
- Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below.

Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text
below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and
says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this
site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names.
They are never merged and never substituted for one another.

---

### 第五十条の二
<sup>art-50-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-50-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-50-2</sup>

  **第一項**  障害の程度が障害等級の一級又は二級に該当する者に支給する障害厚生年金の額は、受給権者によつて生計を維持しているその者の六十五歳未満の配偶者があるときは、前条の規定にかかわらず、同条に定める額に加給年金額を加算した額とする。
  <sup>art-50-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-50-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-50-2/par-1</sup>
  Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, if the beneficiary has a spouse under 65 years old who is receiving financial support from the beneficiary, the amount of employees' disability pension paid to a person who has a disability of a degree of severity that is classified as Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades is the amount that is calculated when an additional amount of pension is added to the amount provided for in the preceding Article.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第二項**  前項に規定する加給年金額は、二十二万四千七百円に改定率を乗じて得た額（その額に五十円未満の端数が生じたときは、これを切り捨て、五十円以上百円未満の端数が生じたときは、これを百円に切り上げるものとする。）とする。
  <sup>art-50-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-50-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-50-2/par-2</sup>
  The additional amount of pension provided for in the preceding paragraph is the amount arrived at when the revision rate is multiplied by 224,700 yen (such an amount is rounded to the nearest hundred, with amounts less than 50 yen being rounded down, and amounts between 50 yen and 99 yen being rounded up).
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第三項**  受給権者がその権利を取得した日の翌日以後にその者によつて生計を維持しているその者の六十五歳未満の配偶者を有するに至つたことにより第一項に規定する加給年金額を加算することとなつたときは、当該配偶者を有するに至つた日の属する月の翌月から、障害厚生年金の額を改定する。
  <sup>art-50-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-50-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-50-2/par-3</sup>
  If an additional amount of pension provided for in paragraph (1) will be added due to the fact that on or after the day following the date on which the beneficiary acquired the right to receive benefits, the beneficiary has come to have a spouse under 65 years old who is receiving financial support from the beneficiary, the amount of employees' disability pension is revised from the month following the month that includes the day on which the beneficiary came to have that spouse.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第四項**  第四十四条第四項（第五号から第十号までを除く。）の規定は、第一項の規定によりその額が加算された障害厚生年金について準用する。
  <sup>art-50-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-50-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-50-2/par-4</sup>
  The provisions of Article 44, paragraph (4) (excluding items (v) through (x)) apply mutatis mutandis to an employees' disability pension whose amount has been added to pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1).
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第五項**  第一項又は前項において準用する第四十四条第四項第二号の規定の適用上、障害厚生年金の受給権者によつて生計を維持していること又はその者による生計維持の状態がやんだことの認定に関し必要な事項は、政令で定める。
  <sup>art-50-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-50-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-50-2/par-5</sup>
  Cabinet Order provides for the necessary particulars in connection with certifying that a person is receiving financial support from the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension in order to apply the provisions of paragraph (1), and provides for the necessary particulars in connection with certifying that a person has stopped receiving financial support from the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension in order to apply the provisions of Article 44, paragraph (4), item (ii) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

---

## Cites
- art-50-2/par-1: 前条 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十条 (Article 50), art-50 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-50
- art-50-2/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十条の二第一項 (Article 50-2, paragraph (1)), art-50-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-50-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-50-2/par-1
- art-50-2/par-3: 第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十条の二第一項 (Article 50-2, paragraph (1)), art-50-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-50-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-50-2/par-1
- art-50-2/par-4: 第四十四条第四項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十四条第四項 (Article 44, paragraph (4)), art-44/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-44/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-44/par-4
- art-50-2/par-4: 第五号から第十号まで → 厚生年金保険法 第四十四条第四項第十号 (Article 44, paragraph (4), item (x)), art-44/par-4/item-10 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-44/par-4/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-44/par-4/item-10
- art-50-2/par-4: 第五号から第十号まで → 厚生年金保険法 第四十四条第四項第五号 (Article 44, paragraph (4), item (v)), art-44/par-4/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-44/par-4/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-44/par-4/item-5
- art-50-2/par-4: 第五号から第十号まで → 厚生年金保険法 第四十四条第四項第六号 (Article 44, paragraph (4), item (vi)), art-44/par-4/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-44/par-4/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-44/par-4/item-6
- art-50-2/par-4: 第五号から第十号まで → 厚生年金保険法 第四十四条第四項第七号 (Article 44, paragraph (4), item (vii)), art-44/par-4/item-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-44/par-4/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-44/par-4/item-7
- art-50-2/par-4: 第五号から第十号まで → 厚生年金保険法 第四十四条第四項第八号 (Article 44, paragraph (4), item (viii)), art-44/par-4/item-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-44/par-4/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-44/par-4/item-8
- art-50-2/par-4: 第五号から第十号まで → 厚生年金保険法 第四十四条第四項第九号 (Article 44, paragraph (4), item (ix)), art-44/par-4/item-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-44/par-4/item-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-44/par-4/item-9
- art-50-2/par-4: 第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十条の二第一項 (Article 50-2, paragraph (1)), art-50-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-50-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-50-2/par-1
- art-50-2/par-5: 第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十条の二第一項 (Article 50-2, paragraph (1)), art-50-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-50-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-50-2/par-1
- art-50-2/par-5: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十条の二第四項 (Article 50-2, paragraph (4)), art-50-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-50-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-50-2/par-4
- art-50-2/par-5: 第四十四条第四項第二号 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十四条第四項第二号 (Article 44, paragraph (4), item (ii)), art-44/par-4/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-44/par-4/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-44/par-4/item-2

## Cited by

14 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 厚生年金保険法 第五十条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-50-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-50-2/par-2
- 厚生年金保険法 第五十条の二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-50-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-50-2/par-3
- 厚生年金保険法 第五十条の二第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-50-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-50-2/par-4
- 厚生年金保険法 第五十条の二第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-50-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-50-2/par-5
- 厚生年金保険法 第百条の四第一項第十五号の二（機構への厚生労働大臣の権限に係る事務の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-4/par-1/item-15-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-4/par-1/item-15-2
- 厚生年金保険法 第百条の十第一項第十四号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-10/par-1/item-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-10/par-1/item-14
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第六十三条第一項（厚生年金保険法による年金額の計算の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3551-82/art-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3551-82/art-63/par-1
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第五十四条第一項第三号（新厚生年金保険法による保険給付の額の改定の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-54/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-54/par-1/item-3
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第六十条第一項（老齢厚生年金の加給年金額等の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-60/par-1
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第二項第一号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4011-86/art-1/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4011-86/art-1/par-2/item-1
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第二項第一号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4061-95/art-1/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4061-95/art-1/par-2/item-1
- 厚生年金保険法 附則第二条第二項（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4221-27/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4221-27/art-2/par-2
- 国民年金法 附則第一条第二項第一号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-4011-86/art-1/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-4011-86/art-1/par-2/item-1
- 国民年金法 附則第一条第二項第一号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-4061-95/art-1/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-4061-95/art-1/par-2/item-1

---

## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 厚生年金保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/329AC0000000115/20261001_507AC0000000074), retrieved 2026-10-13
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employees' Pension Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3554/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13
- This site's parser, version 190 — 厚生年金保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13
