# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第三十九条の二 (Article 39-2) - 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: 第三十九条の二 (Article 39-2) — address `art-39-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-39-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-39-2 - 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. --- ### 第三十九条の二 art-39-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-39-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-39-2 **第一項** 年金たる保険給付の受給権者が死亡したためその受給権が消滅したにもかかわらず、その死亡の日の属する月の翌月以後の分として当該年金たる保険給付の過誤払が行われた場合において、当該過誤払による返還金に係る債権（以下「返還金債権」という。）に係る債務の弁済をすべき者に支払うべき年金たる保険給付があるときは、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、当該年金たる保険給付の支払金の金額を当該過誤払による返還金債権の金額に充当することができる。 art-39-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-39-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-39-2/par-1 If, in spite of the right to receive benefits having ceased to exist due to the death of the beneficiary of pension insurance benefits, the pension insurance benefits were overpaid due to payment for any month following the month that includes the date of the beneficiary's death, but there are pension insurance benefits that are to be paid to the person who is to perform obligations under the claim for the return of monies that has resulted from the overpayment (hereinafter referred to as a "claim for the return of monies"), the amount of payment under the pension insurance benefits may be appropriated as the amount of the claim for the return of monies that resulted from the overpayment, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## 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