# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第六十一条 (Article 61) - 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: 第六十一条 (Article 61) — address `art-61` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-61 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-61 - 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. --- ### 第六十一条 art-61 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-61 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-61 **第一項** 配偶者以外の者に遺族厚生年金を支給する場合において、受給権者の数に増減を生じたときは、増減を生じた月の翌月から、年金の額を改定する。 art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-61/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-61/par-1 If an employees' pension for surviving family is paid to a person other than the spouse and there is any increase or decrease in the number of beneficiaries, the amount of the employees' pension for surviving family is revised from the month following the month in which the number increased or decreased. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前条第一項第一号の規定によりその額が計算される遺族厚生年金（配偶者に対するものに限る。）の受給権者が老齢厚生年金の受給権を取得した日において、同項第二号イ及びロに掲げる額を合算した額が同項第一号に定める額を上回るときは、当該合算した額に、当該老齢厚生年金の受給権を取得した日の属する月の翌月から、年金の額を改定する。 art-61/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-61/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-61/par-2 If, as of the day on which the beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family of an amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), item (i) of the preceding Article (limited to one for the spouse) acquired the right to receive benefits from an employees' old-age pension, the amount arrived at when the amounts specified in item (ii), (a) and (b) of that paragraph are added together exceeds the amount prescribed in item (i) of that paragraph, amount of pension is revised to the relevant sum total from the month following the month that includes the day on which the person acquired the right to receive benefits from the employees' old-age pension. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If, as of the day on which the beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family of an amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), item (i) of the preceding Article (limited to one for the spouse) acquired the right to receive benefits from an employees' old-age pension, the amount arrived at when the amounts specified in item (ii), (a) and (b) of that paragraph are added together exceeds the amount prescribed in item (i) of that paragraph, amount of pension is revised to the relevant sum total of the amounts under paragraph (1), item (ii), (a) and (b) from the month following the month that includes the day on which the person acquired the right to receive benefits from the employees' old-age pension." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3554/tb **第三項** 前条第一項第二号の規定によりその額が計算される遺族厚生年金は、その額の算定の基礎となる老齢厚生年金の額が第四十三条第二項又は第三項の規定により改定されたときは、当該老齢厚生年金の額が改定された月から当該遺族厚生年金の額を改定する。ただし、前条第一項第一号の規定により計算される額が、当該改定後の老齢厚生年金の額を基礎として算定した同項第二号イ及びロに掲げる額を合算した額以上であるときは、この限りでない。 art-61/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-61/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-61/par-3 If the amount of the employees' old-age pension that forms the basis for calculating the amount of an employees' pension for surviving family that is calculated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), item (ii) of the preceding Article is revised pursuant to the provisions of Article 43, paragraph (2) or (3), the amount of the employees' pension for surviving family is revised from the month of the revision of the employees' old-age pension; provided, however, that this does not apply if the amount calculated pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), item (i) of the preceding Article is equal to or more than the total amount under item (ii), (a) and (b) of that paragraph which is computed based on the revised amount of the relevant employees' old-age pension. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-61/par-2: 前条第一項第一号 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十条第一項第一号 (Article 60, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-60/par-1/item-1 — 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 - art-61/par-2: 同項第二号 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十条第一項第二号 (Article 60, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-60/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-60/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-60/par-1/item-2 - art-61/par-3: 前条第一項第二号 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十条第一項第二号 (Article 60, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-60/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-60/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-60/par-1/item-2 - art-61/par-3: 第四十三条第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十三条第二項 (Article 43, paragraph (2)), art-43/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-43/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-43/par-2 - art-61/par-3: 第三項 → 厚生年金保険法 第四十三条第三項 (Article 43, paragraph (3)), art-43/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-43/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-43/par-3 - art-61/par-3: 前条第一項第一号 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十条第一項第一号 (Article 60, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-60/par-1/item-1 — 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 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第六十条第一項第二号ロ（年金額） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-60/par-1/item-2/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-60/par-1/item-2/sub-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第六十八条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-68/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-68/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の十第一項第十七号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-10/par-1/item-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-10/par-1/item-17 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十七条の三第一項（遺族厚生年金の額の改定の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-17-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-17-3/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, written 2026-10-13 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employees' Pension Insurance Act (厚生年金保険法), Article 61, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3554/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employees-pension-insurance-act-20261013T074650-001, translated 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