# 国民年金法 / National Pension Act — 第五十二条の四 (Article 52-4) - Law: 国民年金法 (National Pension Act), 昭和三十四年法律第百四十一号 - English title "National Pension Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - 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: 第五十二条の四 (Article 52-4)（金額） — address `art-52-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-52-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-52-4 - 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. 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. --- ### 第五十二条の四（金額） — Amount caption: machine translation, not official art-52-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-52-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-52-4 **第一項** 死亡一時金の額は、死亡日の属する月の前月までの第一号被保険者としての被保険者期間に係る死亡日の前日における保険料納付済期間の月数、保険料四分の一免除期間の月数の四分の三に相当する月数、保険料半額免除期間の月数の二分の一に相当する月数及び保険料四分の三免除期間の月数の四分の一に相当する月数を合算した月数に応じて、それぞれ次の表の下欄に定める額とする。 死亡日の属する月の前月までの被保険者期間に係る死亡日の前日における保険料納付済期間の月数、保険料四分の一免除期間の月数の四分の三に相当する月数、保険料半額免除期間の月数の二分の一に相当する月数及び保険料四分の三免除期間の月数の四分の一に相当する月数を合算した月数 金額 三六月以上一八〇月未満 一二〇、〇〇〇円 一八〇月以上二四〇月未満 一四五、〇〇〇円 二四〇月以上三〇〇月未満 一七〇、〇〇〇円 三〇〇月以上三六〇月未満 二二〇、〇〇〇円 三六〇月以上四二〇月未満 二七〇、〇〇〇円 四二〇月以上 三二〇、〇〇〇円 art-52-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-52-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-52-4/par-1 The amount of the death lump-sum payment is the amount specified in the right-hand column of the following table according to the number of months, as of the day preceding the date of death, combining the number of months of premium-paid periods, three-quarters of the number of months of the one-quarter premium exemption period, one-half of the number of months of half premium exemption periods, and one-quarter of the number of months of the three-quarter premium exemption period, relating to the insured period as a category 1 insured person up to the month preceding the month that contains the date of death. The number of months, as of the day preceding the date of death, combining the number of months of premium-paid periods, three-quarters of the number of months of the one-quarter premium exemption period, one-half of the number of months of half premium exemption periods, and one-quarter of the number of months of the three-quarter premium exemption period, relating to the insured period up to the month preceding the month that contains the date of death Amount 36 months or more but less than 180 months 120,000 yen 180 months or more but less than 240 months 145,000 yen 240 months or more but less than 300 months 170,000 yen 300 months or more but less than 360 months 220,000 yen 360 months or more but less than 420 months 270,000 yen 420 months or more 320,000 yen machine translation, not official **第二項** 死亡日の属する月の前月までの第一号被保険者としての被保険者期間に係る死亡日の前日における第八十七条の二第一項の規定による保険料に係る保険料納付済期間が三年以上である者の遺族に支給する死亡一時金の額は、前項の規定にかかわらず、同項に定める額に八千五百円を加算した額とする。 art-52-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-52-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-52-4/par-2 Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, the amount of the death lump-sum payment paid to the surviving family members of a person whose premium-paid period relating to the premium under Article 87-2, paragraph (1), as of the day preceding the date of death, relating to the insured period as a category 1 insured person up to the month preceding the month that contains the date of death, is three years or more, is the amount specified in that paragraph plus 8,500 yen. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-52-4/par-2: 第八十七条の二第一項 → 国民年金法 第八十七条の二第一項 (Article 87-2, paragraph (1)), art-87-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-87-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-87-2/par-1 - art-52-4/par-2: 前項 → 国民年金法 第五十二条の四第一項 (Article 52-4, paragraph (1)), art-52-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-52-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-52-4/par-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国民年金法 第五十二条の四第二項（金額） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-52-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-52-4/par-2 - 国民年金法 第五十二条の五第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/art-52-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/art-52-5/par-1 - 国民年金法 附則第五条第九項（任意加入被保険者） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-3341-141/art-5/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3341-141/art-5/par-9 - 国民年金法 附則第三十四条第一項第一号（国民年金事業に要する費用の負担の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-3601-34/art-34/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3601-34/art-34/par-1/item-1 - 国民年金法 附則第三十四条第四項第二号（国民年金事業に要する費用の負担の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-3601-34/art-34/par-4/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3601-34/art-34/par-4/item-2 - 国民年金法 附則第十一条第九項（任意加入被保険者の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-4061-95/art-11/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-4061-95/art-11/par-9 - 国民年金法 附則第二十三条第九項（任意加入被保険者の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-4161-104/art-23/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-4161-104/art-23/par-9 - 国民年金法 附則第四十条第九項（任意加入被保険者の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-5071-74/art-40/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-5071-74/art-40/par-9 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 国民年金法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/334AC0000000141/20261001_507AC0000000074), retrieved 2026-10-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 国民年金法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/1772), retrieved 2026-09-18 - claude-sonnet-5 — Machine translation, batch national-pension-act-20260923T214903-012, translated 2026-09-24 - claude-sonnet-5 — Machine translation, batch national-pension-act-20260923T222116-001, translated 2026-09-24 - This site's parser, version 211 — 国民年金法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05