# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第三十六条 (Article 36) - 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: 第三十六条 (Article 36)（年金の支給期間及び支払期月） — address `art-36` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-36 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-36 - 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. --- ### 第三十六条（年金の支給期間及び支払期月） — (Term of Payment and Payment Months for Pensions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-36 **第一項** 年金の支給は、年金を支給すべき事由が生じた月の翌月から始め、権利が消滅した月で終るものとする。 art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-36/par-1 The payment of a pension is to begin in the month following the month in which the reason that a pension is to be paid has occurred, and is to end in the month in which the right to payment ceases to exist. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 年金は、その支給を停止すべき事由が生じたときは、その事由が生じた月の翌月からその事由が消滅した月までの間は、支給しない。 art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-36/par-2 If any reason for which payment is to be suspended has occurred, a pension is not paid during the period from the month following the month in which that reason has occurred until the month in which that reason ceases to exist. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 年金は、毎年二月、四月、六月、八月、十月及び十二月の六期に、それぞれその前月分までを支払う。ただし、前支払期月に支払うべきであつた年金又は権利が消滅した場合若しくは年金の支給を停止した場合におけるその期の年金は、支払期月でない月であつても、支払うものとする。 art-36/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-36/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-36/par-3 Pensions are paid six times every year, in February, April, June, August, October, and December, in the amount that is due up to the previous month on each of these occasions; provided, however, pension that should have been paid in the previous payment month as well as pension for a term during which the right to payment has ceased to exist or payment has been suspended is to be paid even if the month in question is not a payment month. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 15 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第三十六条の二第一項（二月期支払の年金の加算） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-36-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-36-2/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第四十四条の三第三項（支給の繰下げ） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-44-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-44-3/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 第四十六条第五項（支給停止） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-46/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-46/par-5 - 厚生年金保険法 第四十七条の三第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-47-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-47-3/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 第九十二条第一項（時効） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-92/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-92/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第十五条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-15-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-15-3/par-1 - 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/ja/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 附則第七十八条第四項（旧厚生年金保険法による給付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-78/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-78/par-4 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第八十七条第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3601-34/art-87/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3601-34/art-87/par-5 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十一条第三項（老齢厚生年金の支給停止に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4061-95/art-21/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4061-95/art-21/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十三条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4061-95/art-23/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4061-95/art-23/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十四条第六項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4061-95/art-24/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4061-95/art-24/par-6 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十六条第七項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4061-95/art-26/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4061-95/art-26/par-7 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十六条第四項（適格退職年金契約に係る権利義務の厚生年金基金への移転） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4131-50/art-26/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4131-50/art-26/par-4 - 法人税法 附則第二十六条第四項（適格退職年金契約に係る権利義務の厚生年金基金への移転） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/corporation-tax-act/suppl-4131-50/art-26/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/340AC0000000034/suppl-4131-50/art-26/par-4 --- ## 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