# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第三十九条 (Article 39) - 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: 第三十九条 (Article 39)（年金の支払の調整） — address `art-39` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-39 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-39 - 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. --- ### 第三十九条（年金の支払の調整） — (Adjustment of Pension Payments) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-39 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-39 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-39 **第一項** 乙年金の受給権者が甲年金の受給権を取得したため乙年金の受給権が消滅し、又は同一人に対して乙年金の支給を停止して甲年金を支給すべき場合において、乙年金の受給権が消滅し、又は乙年金の支給を停止すべき事由が生じた月の翌月以後の分として、乙年金の支払が行われたときは、その支払われた乙年金は、甲年金の内払とみなす。 art-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-39/par-1 If the right of the beneficiary of a first pension to receive benefits under the first pension is to cease to exist because the beneficiary has acquired a right to receive benefits under a second pension, but the first pension has been paid for any month following that in which the right to receive benefits under the first pension ceased to exist, the first pension that has been paid for that month is deemed to be a partial payment of the second pension; if the payment of benefits under a first pension is to be suspended and a second pension is to be paid to the same person, but a payment of monies from the first pension has been made for any month following that in which the right to receive benefits under the first pension ceased to exist or the reason to suspend payment of the first pension has occurred, the first pension that has been paid for that month is deemed to be a partial payment of the second pension. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 年金の支給を停止すべき事由が生じたにもかかわらず、その停止すべき期間の分として年金が支払われたときは、その支払われた年金は、その後に支払うべき年金の内払とみなすことができる。年金を減額して改定すべき事由が生じたにもかかわらず、その事由が生じた月の翌月以後の分として減額しない額の年金が支払われた場合における当該年金の当該減額すべきであつた部分についても、同様とする。 art-39/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-39/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-39/par-2 If, in spite of the occurrence of a reason for suspending the payment of a pension, a pension has been paid for any period for which payment was to be suspended, the pension paid in that manner may be deemed to be partial payment of the pension to be paid thereafter. If, in spite of the occurrence of a reason to revise a pension by reducing its amount, a pension has been paid in an unreduced amount for any month following that in which the reason to reduce its amount occurred, the foregoing also applies to the part of the payment constituting the amount by which the pension was to have been reduced. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 同一人に対して国民年金法による年金たる給付の支給を停止して年金たる保険給付（厚生労働大臣が支給するものに限る。以下この項において同じ。）を支給すべき場合において、年金たる保険給付を支給すべき事由が生じた月の翌月以後の分として同法による年金たる給付の支払が行われたときは、その支払われた同法による年金たる給付は、年金たる保険給付の内払とみなすことができる。 art-39/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-39/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-39/par-3 If the payment of pension benefits under the National Pension Act is to be suspended and pension insurance benefits (limited to the benefits paid by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) are to be paid to the same person, but pension benefits under that Act have been paid for any month following that in which the reason for paying pension insurance benefits has occurred, the pension benefits under that Act that have been paid may be deemed to be a partial payment of pension insurance benefits. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-39/par-3: この項 → 厚生年金保険法 第三十九条第三項 (Article 39, paragraph (3)), art-39/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-39/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-39/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第三十九条第三項（年金の支払の調整） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-39/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-39/par-3 - 厚生年金保険法 第七十八条の二十四第一項（年金の支払の調整の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-78-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-78-24/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