# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第三十七条 (Article 37) - 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: 第三十七条 (Article 37)（未支給の保険給付） — address `art-37` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-37 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-37 - 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. --- ### 第三十七条（未支給の保険給付） — (Unpaid Insurance Benefits) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-37 **第一項** 保険給付の受給権者が死亡した場合において、その死亡した者に支給すべき保険給付でまだその者に支給しなかつたものがあるときは、その者の配偶者、子、父母、孫、祖父母、兄弟姉妹又はこれらの者以外の三親等内の親族であつて、その者の死亡の当時その者と生計を同じくしていたものは、自己の名で、その未支給の保険給付の支給を請求することができる。 art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-37/par-1 If the beneficiary of insurance benefits has died and there are insurance benefits that should have been paid to the deceased but that had not yet been paid thereto, the deceased's spouse, child or children, father and mother, grandchild or grandchildren, grandfather and grandmother, brothers and sisters, or relative within the third degree of kinship other than the foregoing persons, who was living off the same financial resources as the beneficiary at the time of the beneficiary's death, may request payment of unpaid insurance benefits in their own name. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合において、死亡した者が遺族厚生年金の受給権者である妻であつたときは、その者の死亡の当時その者と生計を同じくしていた被保険者又は被保険者であつた者の子であつて、その者の死亡によつて遺族厚生年金の支給の停止が解除されたものは、同項に規定する子とみなす。 art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-37/par-2 In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the person who has died was a wife who was the beneficiary of an employees' pension for surviving family, any child of the insured or former insured who was living off the same financial resources as the deceased at the time of her death and for whom a suspension on the payment of an employees' pension for surviving family has been lifted by her death is deemed to be a child as prescribed in that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の場合において、死亡した受給権者が死亡前にその保険給付を請求していなかつたときは、同項に規定する者は、自己の名で、その保険給付を請求することができる。 art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-37/par-3 In a case as referred to in paragraph (1), if the deceased beneficiary had not claimed the insurance benefits prior to death, the person prescribed in that paragraph may claim insurance benefits in their own name. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 未支給の保険給付を受けるべき者の順位は、政令で定める。 art-37/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-37/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-37/par-4 Cabinet Order provides for the order in which persons are to receive unpaid insurance benefits. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 未支給の保険給付を受けるべき同順位者が二人以上あるときは、その一人のした請求は、全員のためその全額につきしたものとみなし、その一人に対してした支給は、全員に対してしたものとみなす。 art-37/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-37/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-37/par-5 If there are two or more persons who are in the same place in the order in which persons are to receive unpaid insurance benefits, any claim made by one of them is deemed to have been made for all of them with regard to the entire amount, and any payment made to one of them is deemed to have been made to all of them. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-37/par-2: 前項 → 厚生年金保険法 第三十七条第一項 (Article 37, paragraph (1)), art-37/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-37/par-1 - art-37/par-3: 第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第三十七条第一項 (Article 37, paragraph (1)), art-37/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-37/par-1 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第二十八条の二第二項（訂正の請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-28-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-28-2/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第三十七条第二項（未支給の保険給付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-37/par-2 - 厚生年金保険法 第三十七条第三項（未支給の保険給付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-37/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 第百条の十第一項第五号（機構への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-100-10/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-100-10/par-1/item-5 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十九条第九項（日本国籍を有しない者に対する脱退一時金の支給） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-29/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-29/par-9 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十二条第一項（未支給の保険給付に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-22/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-23/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4241-62/art-24/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七条第一項（旧厚生年金保険法による給付の受給権者等に係る経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4261-64/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4261-64/art-7/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 - This site's parser, version 190 — 厚生年金保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13