# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第六十六条 (Article 66) - 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: 第六十六条 (Article 66) — address `art-66` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-66 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-66 - 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. --- ### 第六十六条 art-66 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-66 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-66 **第一項** 子に対する遺族厚生年金は、配偶者が遺族厚生年金の受給権を有する期間、その支給を停止する。ただし、配偶者に対する遺族厚生年金が前条本文、次項本文又は次条の規定によりその支給を停止されている間は、この限りでない。 art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-66/par-1 Payment of an employees' pension for surviving family to a child is suspended for the period during which the spouse holds the right to receive benefits from the employees' pension for surviving family; provided, however, that this does not apply during a period in which the payment of an employees' pension for surviving family to the spouse is suspended pursuant to the provisions of the main clause of the preceding Article, the main clause of the following paragraph, or the following Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 配偶者に対する遺族厚生年金は、当該被保険者又は被保険者であつた者の死亡について、配偶者が国民年金法による遺族基礎年金の受給権を有しない場合であつて子が当該遺族基礎年金の受給権を有するときは、その間、その支給を停止する。ただし、子に対する遺族厚生年金が次条の規定によりその支給を停止されている間は、この限りでない。 art-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-66/par-2 If, with regard to the death of the insured or former insured, the spouse does not hold the right to receive benefits from a basic pension for surviving family under the National Pension Act but the child does hold the right to receive benefits from the basic pension for surviving family, payment of any employees' pension for surviving family to the spouse is suspended during that period; provided, however, that this does not apply during a period in which the payment of the employees' pension for surviving family to the child is suspended pursuant to the provisions of the following Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-66/par-1: 前条 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十五条の二 (Article 65-2), art-65-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-65-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-65-2 - art-66/par-1: 次項 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十六条第二項 (Article 66, paragraph (2)), art-66/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-66/par-2 - art-66/par-1: 次条 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十七条 (Article 67), art-67 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-67 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-67 - art-66/par-2: 次条 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十七条 (Article 67), art-67 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-67 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-67 ## Cited by 3 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 附則第七十四条第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-74/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-74/par-5 --- ## 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