# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第七十八条の二十二 (Article 78-22) - 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: 第七十八条の二十二 (Article 78-22)（年金たる保険給付の併給の調整の特例） — address `art-78-22` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-22 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-22 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七十八条の二十二（年金たる保険給付の併給の調整の特例） — (Special Provisions on Adjustment for Combined Benefits under Pension Insurance Benefits) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-78-22 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-22 **第一項** 第一号厚生年金被保険者期間、第二号厚生年金被保険者期間、第三号厚生年金被保険者期間又は第四号厚生年金被保険者期間（以下「各号の厚生年金被保険者期間」という。）のうち二以上の被保険者の種別に係る被保険者であつた期間を有する者（以下「二以上の種別の被保険者であつた期間を有する者」という。）であつて、一の被保険者の種別に係る被保険者であつた期間（以下「一の期間」という。）に基づく年金たる保険給付と同一の支給事由に基づく当該一の被保険者の種別と異なる他の被保険者の種別に係る被保険者であつた期間（以下「他の期間」という。）に基づく年金たる保険給付を受けることができるものについて、第三十八条の規定を適用する場合においては、同条第一項中「遺族厚生年金を除く」とあるのは「当該老齢厚生年金と同一の支給事由に基づいて支給される老齢厚生年金及び遺族厚生年金を除く」と、「老齢厚生年金を除く」とあるのは「老齢厚生年金及び当該遺族厚生年金と同一の支給事由に基づいて支給される遺族厚生年金を除く」とする。 art-78-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-22/par-1 In applying the provisions of Article 38 to a person who has spent time as an insured under two or more insured categories corresponding to a category I EPI insured period, category II EPI insured period, category III EPI insured period, or category IV EPI insured period (hereinafter each of these is referred to as a "category of EPI insured period") (hereinafter such a person is referred to as a "person who has spent time as an insured in two or more categories"); and who is eligible to receive pension insurance benefits based on the time that the person spent as an insured under a single insured category (referred to as the person's "time in one category" hereinafter) and is also eligible to receive pension insurance benefits due to the same grounds for payment based on the time that the person spent as an insured under another insured category that differs from the single insured category in question (hereinafter referred to as the person's "time in another category"); the phrase "other than an employees' pension for surviving family" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be the phrase "other than an employees' old-age pension paid based on the same grounds for payment as the employees' old-age pension in question or an employees' pension for surviving family" and the phrase " other than an employees' old-age pension" in that paragraph is deemed to be the phrase " other than an employees' old-age pension or an employees' pension for surviving family paid based on the same grounds for payment as the employees' pension for surviving family in question". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-78-22/par-1: 第三十八条 → 厚生年金保険法 第三十八条 (Article 38), art-38 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-38 - art-78-22/par-1: 同条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第三十八条第一項 (Article 38, paragraph (1)), art-38/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-38/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の二十四第一項（年金の支払の調整の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-24/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の二十九第一項（老齢厚生年金の支給停止の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-29/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十七条第一項（併給の調整の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-17/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十二条第一項（二以上の種別の被保険者であった期間を有する者に係る給付に関する規定の適用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-63/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-63/art-22/par-1 --- ## 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