# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第二十八条の四 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 28-4) - 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: 第二十八条の四 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 28-4)（旧共済組合員期間を有する者の遺族に対する特例遺族年金の支給） — address `suppl-3291-115/art-28-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-28-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-28-4 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十八条の四（旧共済組合員期間を有する者の遺族に対する特例遺族年金の支給） — Payment of Special Pensions for Surviving Family to the Surviving Family of Persons with a Period as a Member of a Former Mutual Aid Association caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3291-115/art-28-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-28-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-28-4 **第一項** 被保険者期間が一年以上であり、かつ、保険料納付済期間と保険料免除期間とを合算した期間が二十五年に満たない者で、被保険者期間と旧共済組合員期間とを合算した期間が二十年以上であるものが死亡した場合において、その者の遺族が遺族厚生年金の受給権を取得しないときは、その遺族に特例遺族年金を支給する。 suppl-3291-115/art-28-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-28-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-28-4/par-1 If a person whose insured period is one year or more, for whom the period obtained by adding together the premium-paid period and the premium-exemption period is less than 25 years, and for whom the period obtained by adding together the insured period and the period as a member of a former mutual aid Association is 20 years or more, dies, and the surviving family of that person do not acquire the right to receive benefits from an employees' pension for surviving family, a special pension for surviving family is paid to the surviving family. machine translation, not official **第二項** 特例遺族年金の額は、附則第九条の四第一項の規定の例により計算した額の百分の五十に相当する額とする。 suppl-3291-115/art-28-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-28-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-28-4/par-2 The amount of a special pension for surviving family is the amount equivalent to 50/100 of the amount calculated by following the provisions of Article 9-4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions. machine translation, not official **第三項** 特例遺族年金は、この法律（第五十八条、第六十条第一項及び第六十四条の二を除く。）及び国民年金法第二十条の規定の適用については、第五十八条第一項第四号に該当することにより支給される遺族厚生年金とみなす。 suppl-3291-115/art-28-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-28-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-28-4/par-3 A special pension for surviving family is deemed, for the purposes of the application of this Act (excluding Article 58, Article 60, paragraph (1) and Article 64-2) and Article 20 of the National Pension Act, to be an employees' pension for surviving family paid by reason of falling under Article 58, paragraph (1), item (iv). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3291-115/art-28-4/par-2: 附則第九条の四第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第九条の四第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9-4, paragraph (1)), suppl-3291-115/art-9-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-9-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-9-4/par-1 - suppl-3291-115/art-28-4/par-3: 第五十八条 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十八条 (Article 58), art-58 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-58 - suppl-3291-115/art-28-4/par-3: 第六十条第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十条第一項 (Article 60, paragraph (1)), art-60/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-60/par-1 - suppl-3291-115/art-28-4/par-3: 第六十四条の二 → 厚生年金保険法 第六十四条の二 (Article 64-2), art-64-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-64-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-64-2 - suppl-3291-115/art-28-4/par-3: 国民年金法第二十条 → 国民年金法 第二十条 (Article 20), art-20 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-20 - suppl-3291-115/art-28-4/par-3: 第五十八条第一項第四号 → 厚生年金保険法 第五十八条第一項第四号 (Article 58, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-58/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-58/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-58/par-1/item-4 ## Cited by 15 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三十六号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-10/par-1/item-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-10/par-1/item-36 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十四条第一項（老齢厚生年金の支給要件等の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-14/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十七条の十第一項（標準報酬が改定され、又は決定された者に対する保険給付の支給要件等の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-17-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-17-10/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十七条の十二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-17-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-17-12/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十八条の二第一項（旧陸軍共済組合等の組合員であつた期間に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-28-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-28-2/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第四十八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-48/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-48/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第四十八条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-48/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-48/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第五十五条第一項（新厚生年金保険法による年金たる保険給付の支払期月の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-55/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第五十七条第一項（老齢厚生年金の支給要件の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-57/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第五十九条第一項（老齢厚生年金の額の計算の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-59/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第五十九条第三項（老齢厚生年金の額の計算の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-59/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-59/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第六十一条第二項（中高齢者等に係る老齢厚生年金の加給年金額等の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-61/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-61/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第六条第一項（厚生年金保険法による年金たる保険給付等の額に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4121-18/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4121-18/art-6/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十条第一項（老齢厚生年金等の額の計算に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4121-18/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4121-18/art-20/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十一条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4121-18/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4121-18/art-21/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employees-pension-insurance-act-20261013T074650-015, translated 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