# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) - 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) — address `suppl-3441-78/art-8` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条 suppl-3441-78/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-8 **第一項** 昭和四十四年十一月一日において現に厚生年金保険法附則第十六条第一項の規定によつて支給する従前の遺族年金、寡婦年金、鰥夫年金又は遺児年金の例による保険給付を受ける権利を有する者の当該保険給付については、その額（従前の加給金又は増額金に相当する給付の額を除く。）を九万六千円とする。 suppl-3441-78/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-8/par-1 With regard to the insurance benefits of a person who, on November 1, 1969, actually has the right to receive insurance benefits that follow the example of the previous pension for surviving family, widow's pension, widower's pension or orphan's pension paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, the amount (excluding the amount of benefits equivalent to the previous additional allowance or increment) is 96,000 yen. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定は、昭和四十四年十一月一日以後において厚生年金保険法附則第十六条第一項の規定によつて支給する従前の遺族年金、寡婦年金、鰥夫年金又は遺児年金の例による保険給付を受ける権利を有するに至つた者の当該保険給付について準用する。 suppl-3441-78/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-8/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to the insurance benefits of a person who has come to have, on or after November 1, 1969, the right to receive insurance benefits that follow the example of the previous pension for surviving family, widow's pension, widower's pension or orphan's pension paid pursuant to the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Employees' Pension Insurance Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3441-78/art-8/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 附則第八条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8, paragraph (1)), suppl-3441-78/art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-8/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第二項第二号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-1/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-1/par-2/item-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-8/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3441-78/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3441-78/art-10/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch employees-pension-insurance-act-20261013T074650-022, 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