# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第七十八条の三十四 (Article 78-34) - 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: 第七十八条の三十四 (Article 78-34)（遺族厚生年金の支給停止に係る申請の特例） — address `art-78-34` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-34 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-34 - 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. --- ### 第七十八条の三十四（遺族厚生年金の支給停止に係る申請の特例） — (Special Provisions on Applications to Suspend Payment of Employees' Pensions for Surviving Family) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-78-34 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-34 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-34 **第一項** 二以上の種別の被保険者であつた期間を有する者の遺族について、二以上の被保険者の種別に係る被保険者であつた期間に基づく遺族厚生年金を受けることができる場合には、一の期間に基づく遺族厚生年金についての第六十七条又は第六十八条第一項若しくは第二項の規定による申請は、当該一の期間に基づく遺族厚生年金と同一の支給事由に基づく他の期間に基づく遺族厚生年金についての当該申請と同時に行わなければならない。 art-78-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-34/par-1 If a surviving family member of a person who has spent time as an insured in two or more categories is eligible to receive an employees' pension for surviving family based on the time that the relevant person spent as an insured under two or more insured categories, the surviving family member must file an application under the provisions of Article 67, or Article 68, paragraph (1) or (2) for the employees' pension for surviving family based on the person's time in one category at the same time as filing any application for the employees' pension for surviving family based on the person's time in another category that is based on the same grounds for payment as the grounds for payment of the employees' pension for surviving family based on the person's time in that one category. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-78-34/par-1: 第六十七条 → 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-78-34/par-1: 第六十八条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十八条第一項 (Article 68, paragraph (1)), art-68/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-68/par-1 - art-78-34/par-1: 第二項 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十八条第二項 (Article 68, paragraph (2)), art-68/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-68/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-68/par-2 --- ## 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