# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第六十四条 (Article 64) - 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: 第六十四条 (Article 64)（支給停止） — address `art-64` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-64 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-64 - 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. --- ### 第六十四条（支給停止） — (Suspension of Payment) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-64 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-64 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-64 **第一項** 遺族厚生年金は、当該被保険者又は被保険者であつた者の死亡について労働基準法第七十九条の規定による遺族補償の支給が行われるべきものであるときは、死亡の日から六年間、その支給を停止する。 art-64/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-64/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-64/par-1 If the compensation for surviving family under the provisions of Article 79 of the Labor Standards Act is to be paid for the death of an insured or former insured, the payment of the employees' pension for surviving family is suspended during the six-year period after the day of death. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-64/par-1: 労働基準法第七十九条 → 労働基準法 第七十九条 (Article 79), art-79 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-79 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の十第一項第十八号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-10/par-1/item-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-10/par-1/item-18 --- ## 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