# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第六十五条の二 (Article 65-2) - 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: 第六十五条の二 (Article 65-2) — address `art-65-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-65-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-65-2 - 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. --- ### 第六十五条の二 art-65-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-65-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-65-2 **第一項** 夫、父母又は祖父母に対する遺族厚生年金は、受給権者が六十歳に達するまでの期間、その支給を停止する。ただし、夫に対する遺族厚生年金については、当該被保険者又は被保険者であつた者の死亡について、夫が国民年金法による遺族基礎年金の受給権を有するときは、この限りでない。 art-65-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-65-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-65-2/par-1 Payment of an employees' pension for surviving family to the husband, parents, or grandparents is suspended during the period until the beneficiary reaches the age of 60; provided, however, that this does not apply to an employees' pension for surviving family to be paid to the husband, if the husband has the right to receive benefits from a basic pension for surviving family under the National Pension Act in connection with the death of that insured or former insured. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第六十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-66/par-1 - 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 附則第七十二条第四項（遺族厚生年金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-72/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-72/par-4 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十一条第四項（遺族厚生年金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4081-82/art-11/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4081-82/art-11/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