# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第五十八条 (Article 58) - 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: 第五十八条 (Article 58)（受給権者） — address `art-58` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-58 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十八条（受給権者） — (Beneficiary) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-58 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-58 **第一項** 遺族厚生年金は、被保険者又は被保険者であつた者が次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合に、その者の遺族に支給する。ただし、第一号又は第二号に該当する場合にあつては、死亡した者につき、死亡日の前日において、死亡日の属する月の前々月までに国民年金の被保険者期間があり、かつ、当該被保険者期間に係る保険料納付済期間と保険料免除期間とを合算した期間が当該被保険者期間の三分の二に満たないときは、この限りでない。 art-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-58/par-1 If the insured or former insured falls under any one of the following items, an employees' pension for surviving family is paid to the surviving family of the insured or former insured; provided, however, that this does not apply, in a case that falls under item (i) or (ii) if, as of the day before the day of death, the deceased person had had an insured period under National Pension that lasted up until the month two months before the month that includes the day of death, and further, the total sum of the premium-paid period and the premium-exemption period does not comprise at least two-thirds of the relevant insured period: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 被保険者（失踪の宣告を受けた被保険者であつた者であつて、行方不明となつた当時被保険者であつたものを含む。）が、死亡したとき。 art-58/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-58/par-1/item-1 the insured (including a former insured who was subject to an adjudication of disappearance and who was insured at the time that the whereabouts of the person became unknown) has died; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 被保険者であつた者が、被保険者の資格を喪失した後に、被保険者であつた間に初診日がある傷病により当該初診日から起算して五年を経過する日前に死亡したとき。 art-58/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-58/par-1/item-2 a former insured has, after forfeiting status as an insured, died of an injury or illness for which the day of initial examination was within the period during which the person was an insured, prior to the day on which five years have elapsed counting from the relevant day of initial examination; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 障害等級の一級又は二級に該当する障害の状態にある障害厚生年金の受給権者が、死亡したとき。 art-58/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-58/par-1/item-3 the beneficiary of an employees' disability pension who had a disability classified as the Grade 1 or Grade 2 of the disability grades has died; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 保険料納付済期間と保険料免除期間とを合算した期間が二十五年以上である者が、死亡したとき。 art-58/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-58/par-1/item-4 a person whose total sum of the premium-paid period and the premium-exemption period is twenty-five years or more has died. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の場合において、死亡した被保険者又は被保険者であつた者が同項第一号から第三号までのいずれかに該当し、かつ、同項第四号にも該当するときは、その遺族が遺族厚生年金を請求したときに別段の申出をした場合を除き、同項第一号から第三号までのいずれかのみに該当し、同項第四号には該当しないものとみなす。 art-58/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-58/par-2 In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, if an insured or former insured who has died falls under any one of items (i) through (iii) of that paragraph, and also falls under item (iv) of that paragraph, the person is deemed to fall only under any one of the items (i) through (iii), and not to fall under item (iv) of that paragraph, unless otherwise specifically requested by the surviving family member of that person if that surviving family member claims the employees' pension for surviving family. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-58/par-1: 第一号 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十八条第一項第一号 (Article 58, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-58/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-58/par-1/item-1 - art-58/par-1: 第二号 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十八条第一項第二号 (Article 58, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-58/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-58/par-1/item-2 - art-58/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十八条第一項 (Article 58, paragraph (1)), art-58/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-58/par-1 - art-58/par-2: 同項第一号から第三号まで → 厚生年金保険法 第五十八条第一項第一号 (Article 58, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-58/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-58/par-1/item-1 - art-58/par-2: 同項第一号から第三号まで → 厚生年金保険法 第五十八条第一項第二号 (Article 58, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-58/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-58/par-1/item-2 - art-58/par-2: 同項第一号から第三号まで → 厚生年金保険法 第五十八条第一項第三号 (Article 58, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-58/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-58/par-1/item-3 - art-58/par-2: 同項第四号 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十八条第一項第四号 (Article 58, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-58/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-58/par-1/item-4 ## Cited by 27 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第五十八条第一項（受給権者） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-58/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第五十八条第二項（受給権者） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-58/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第六十条第一項第一号（年金額） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-60/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-60/par-1/item-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第六十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-62/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の十一第一項（標準報酬が改定され、又は決定された者に対する保険給付の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-11/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の十九第一項（標準報酬が改定され、及び決定された者に対する保険給付の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-19/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の三十二第一項（遺族厚生年金の額の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-32/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の三十二第二項（遺族厚生年金の額の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-32/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の四第一項第十七号（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-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-4/par-1/item-17 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の十第一項第十六号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-10/par-1/item-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-10/par-1/item-16 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七条の二第一項（他の被保険者の種別に係る被保険者であつた期間の確認等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-7-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-7-2/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七条の二第二項（他の被保険者の種別に係る被保険者であつた期間の確認等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-7-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-7-2/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十四条第一項（老齢厚生年金の支給要件等の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-14/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十八条の四第三項（旧共済組合員期間を有する者の遺族に対する特例遺族年金の支給） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-28-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-28-4/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第四十八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-48/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-48/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第四十八条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-48/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-48/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第四十八条第六項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-48/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-48/par-6 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第五十二条第一項（厚生年金保険の平均標準報酬月額の計算に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-52/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第五十七条第一項（老齢厚生年金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-57/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第五十九条第一項（老齢厚生年金の額の計算の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-59/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第六十三条第一項（施行日において六十歳以上である者に係る厚生年金保険の年金たる保険給付の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-63/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第六十四条第二項（障害厚生年金等の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-64/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-64/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第六十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-65/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七十八条第一項（旧厚生年金保険法による給付） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-78/par-1 - 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This site's parser, version 190 — 厚生年金保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13