# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第六十五条 (Article 65) - 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: 第六十五条 (Article 65) — address `art-65` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-65 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-65 - 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. --- ### 第六十五条 art-65 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-65 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-65 **第一項** 第六十二条第一項の規定によりその額が加算された遺族厚生年金は、その受給権者である妻が当該被保険者又は被保険者であつた者の死亡について国民年金法による遺族基礎年金の支給を受けることができるときは、その間、同項の規定により加算する額に相当する部分の支給を停止する。 art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-65/par-1 If the beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family to which an additional amount has been added pursuant to the provisions of Article 62 paragraph (1) is the wife, and if she is entitled to receive a basic pension for surviving family under the National Pension Act in connection with the death of the relevant insured or former insured, during that time, payment is suspended on the portion of the relevant employees' pension for surviving family that is equal to the additional amount provided for in that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-65/par-1: 第六十二条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十二条第一項 (Article 62, paragraph (1)), art-62/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-62/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite 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 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七十三条第二項（遺族厚生年金の加算の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-73/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-73/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七十四条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-74/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-74/par-4 --- ## 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